Horse Shoe Club (HSC) is for main campers (7-12 year olds).  

    HSC is one of the electives offered.  Each morning after chapel campers will meet at Griffith lodge and be escorted to the HSC area.  They will be divided into two groups.  One group will be in the riding pen while the other is in safety and science.  At the halfway point of elective time the groups will switch areas.  This will happen each morning, Monday-Friday.   HSC is to get our horse loving campers ready to go to Frontier Adventure.

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Frontier Adventure (FA) is for our 13-15 year old campers that want to learn more about riding and caring for horses, 12 year old campers may come to FA if they have previously been in Camp Classen’s Horse Shoe Club. 

   
     A typical day is leaving main camp right after breakfast to go out to historic Collings Ranch (located on camp).  There the campers will be taught how to safely and correctly catch and halter a horse, tie a horse to begin grooming, saddling, bridling.  After everyone is ready, we head down to our riding area where we have an arena for group riding and individual instruction in our multiple round pens.  Equitation and riding games fill the day.  Don’t think we have forgotten about chapel.  We have our own chapel at the ranch.  Some afternoons the FA campers will decide to go for a swim.  We will walk to 3 falls (located on camp) or swim in the water hole located by the arena.  Evenings are spent doing group activities with the Traditional 89’er campers most of the time.  There are times when we will stay at the ranch and have our own group activity.  On “check-out day” the campers will put on a riding demo after the main closing ceremony called “The Sho-deo”.

Outdoor School has a unique opportunity for campers to learn more about horses.  We take them on a trail ride, teach them safety around horses and some fun science facts about horses.  Did you know horses have a second heart?  (It’s not a real heart but horses do have another part of their body that pumps blood.)  There are other interesting science facts that the campers will be taught.  The campers will also come to the historic Collings Ranch (located on camp), and see structures built in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s.

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