906 Adventure Team

09/15/2026

Week 7. Maybe? The weeks are all running together 😂 The park is moving right along. Pump Track got paved last week. Still lots of work to do around it. Rain gardens and plantings should start this week. Rock Solid will begin working the hub again and focus on the jump lines on the east side. Oberstar is on-site pouring a new sidewalk. The new lot will get paved after Marji. Speaking of da Marji Gesick... Gluski Park will host packet pickup this week!!!

We have some work to do 👊🏽

09/12/2026

Adventure Team Green Bay

In 2026, we welcomed our largest group of riders, volunteers, and youth mentors yet, making this our biggest season to date. As always, our focus remained on the number of smiles, not the number of miles. Throughout the summer, we shared countless high-fives, played tag, explored the outdoors, caught frogs, and even found ourselves in a pond once or twice. Most importantly, we watched a group of individuals grow into a true team.

This year, our riders continued to build their cycling skills through trail rides, dedicated coaching, skills features, and more than 900 cones set up each night! The growth, confidence, and friendships we saw throughout the season were remarkable. We are incredibly grateful for the support of our local sponsors and donors, including Stadium Bike, Pete’s Garage, The Bike Hub, and BelGioioso Cheese. Their generosity helps make this program possible, and we couldn’t do it without them.

Thank you to all our riders, families, volunteers, and supporters for making this such a memorable year. We hope everyone has a wonderful school year, and we can’t wait to see you all again next summer!

Mitch & Dana
Adventure Team Green Bay Leads

09/10/2026

From the September "Doing The Hard Things Newsletter"....

Keep the Spirit of Adventure Alive!

We spent the summer months in hike and bike club sharing the value of movement, bike or hike skills, nature, and adventure. If we can carry that momentum from bike and hike club into fall it will help kids understand the importance of adventure, the natural world and movement in additional spaces. Here are some suggestions for how to accomplish this:

Find something outdoors and local – touch the grass. If you keep it simple, you will be more likely to follow through. Kids do not need to be entertained outdoors.

Get out immediately after work or school, as the days get shorter it becomes more difficult if you wait. Take your snack with you and hit the trails before dinner.

Take a path or a route which allows multiple modes of transportation (on foot, bike or scooter) to satisfy everyone. Talk about what you enjoy about your mode or try someone else’s.
Enjoy the process, slow the pace – make some discoveries and appreciate the adventure. Talk about what you observe.

Allow for everyone to add some ideas to a family list of favorite outdoor places to visit and then cycle through the choices. Talk about which were your favorite spaces and why.

The only way that youth are going to learn to adventure and appreciate the outdoors is if they see the adults around them doing the same. Adventure Team coaches share these values with them over summer, and their work will be more meaningful if it continues in the off season.

Enjoy the Adventure.

09/10/2026

ADVENTURE TEAM LA CROSSE COUNTY

If there was one lesson our La Crosse County Adventure Team learned this summer, it was how to adapt and keep adventuring!

Mother Nature certainly kept us on our toes. Between rain, thunderstorms, heat, and a mosquito population that seemed determined to join Adventure Team itself, this season didn’t always go according to plan. But that’s part of the adventure and our kids handled every change like champs. Week after week, our riders and hikers showed up ready to learn, explore, and have fun. They practiced new skills, tackled challenges, played games, built confidence, and made new friends along the way.

This year was especially exciting because we added hiking to our Adventure Team program, giving even more kids an opportunity to get outside, explore, and be part of the team. Whether they were on two wheels or two feet, our participants spent the summer learning that adventure isn’t about how fast or far you go. It’s about trying new things, building confidence, supporting your teammates, and having fun outside.

One of the highlights was our water night, when sprinklers and reusable water balloons turned Adventure Team into what may have been the world’s wettest practice. Judging by the smiles (and the number of kids who went home completely soaked), we’d call it a success!

None of this would be possible without our incredible coaches, volunteers, and families. Our coaches give their time, energy, patience, and enthusiasm every week to make sure every child feels supported and successful. Our families rolled with every weather update, schedule change, and last-minute adjustment we threw their way this year.

But most of all, we’re proud of our kids. They tried hard things. They learned new skills. They made new friends. They got dirty, sweaty, wet, and probably collected a few mosquito bites along the way. They encouraged one another, laughed a lot, and showed us week after week what Adventure Team is all about.

Thank you to everyone who made this season possible. We can’t wait to see where the adventure takes us next year!

Randi
Adventure Team La Crosse Lead

09/09/2026

“We take a challenging outdoor activity (mountain biking or hiking) that develops self-confidence, resilience, grit, and community and bring it to youth without the pressure of head-to-head competition—no clocks to race against or finish lines to fight for,” the program’s website says. “We meet kids where they are and help them get better. We focus on skills on and off the bike and emphasize working together. When the goal is to become the best person and team player you can be, there is no finish line.”

Northern Michigan is rich in youth cycling programs designed to get kids off the couch, away from screens, and into the great outdoors. Traverse City-base…

09/09/2026

Adventure Team Petoskey Crushes First Season, from September 906AT Newsletter

When Ryan and Rachel Brown moved to the Petoskey area, they knew they wanted to bring Adventure Team programming with them. And so, they did.

“The biggest challenge for us, moving to a new area, we knew no one, we knew nothing – but I knew the Adventure Team experience because I’d been coaching Marquette, so we were really able to describe it, but we had to figure out where to start,” said Ryan.

Sharing their passion for the program and starting Adventure Team Petoskey Area actually helped them get to know their new community. And they both agree, once the connections started – “the bike world pulled through for them.”

Adventure Team Petoskey Area’s first season consisted of 28 kids and 15 coaches riding from Avalanche Park. Ryan recalls when they first moved, he’d ride different trail systems trying to find the right space. He says, the first time he rode the trails at Avalanche he knew, texting Rachel, “This is it; this is the one!”

From there it was coordination, getting the word out and putting in the work to make a new program happen.

Rachel says the response from families has only fueled their passion further. Families and coaches sharing their gratitude for a program and experience they affirmed the community was lacking. And watching that first group of kids this summer, well – it was what they worked so hard for.

“Seeing their improvement – from start to end,” says Rachel. “Some of the kids with tears on the last night because they didn’t want it to be over – just seeing how much fun they were having and how much they changed throughout the season, it’s been amazing.”

Ryan says, “When you get to the end and see the kids who could hardly pedal and are now tearing up and down the trails, watching them fall and get back up with a smile and keep going, it’s just really cool.”

Overall, they say everyone has been supportive and they’ve heard from a lot of people who say they’re encouraged to get involved next year. A sentiment they couldn’t be more thrilled about as their goal heading into next year is to impact more kids and more families.

We can’t wait to see what next year brings for Adventure Team Petoskey Area! Congratulations Ryan and Rachel on a successful first year!

09/08/2026

Pump Track gets paved this week!

09/03/2026

Finishing What Was Started: Gluski Park Takes Shape Around a Bigger Vision for Outdoor Adventure.

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Gluski Park is taking shape in the heart of Marquette, driven by a vision to give more people a place to start in outdoor adventure. After the tragic loss of Tara Gluski, people from across the country rallied behind that vision, helping 906 Adventure Team turn it into a $2.1 million project.To lear...