Women ages fortyish to sixtyish can find out how safe and easy mountain biking can be when your among a bunch of your peers instead of holding up the rear.  If your an old hand at cycling, but just not the hammer you used to be, you'll have sisters to ride with this Summer, and friends for life.  Or you want to try riding off road because your doctor sentenced you to "thirty minutesof daily exercise" this could be your ticket to a new you.

Jacquie Phelan (a.k.a. Alice Toeclips) one of the founders of NORBA and IMBA has won three National Championships.

Jacquie created WOMBATS to offer women a gentle introduction to her favorite sport.  She has organized and taught hundreds of women's mountain biking workshops.  When not attempting to improve her banjo picking skills, Jacquie writes for various magazines and publications, and continues to promote women's mountain biking all over the world.

Schedule:

Tuesday, August 24 10am - 4pm: "honest to goodness beginners" will learn the very basics, while the impatient and the fit explore the trails.  After lunch everyone can ride with Jacquie on the Tahoe Rim Trail.  In the evening after dinner, a moonlight ride.

Wednesday, August 25 10am - 4pm: A picnic ride up and over the ridge, with teachable moments and photo stops, perhaps even a Flat Fixing Seminar.  Rock garden line analysis, Body English as A Second Language, The Chicken Shit Tripod Stance, and many more of Jacquie's inadequately patented moves.

Thursday, August 26 10am - 2pm: Finesse class for intermediate riders, both men and women.  Afternoon:  Mud Life Crisis women ride together and collect their diplomas.

Friday, August 27:  Public ride with Jacquie and Tinker Juarez on the five mile loop made famous in the 24 hours of Kirkwood.  Cost free!

Lodging and food not included.  Must bring a bike in perfect working order, with fat tires.

For further information, please email jacquie@batnet.com