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NRRT 280A5 - Mountain Biking Leadership

  • 1 credit
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Want to learn how to mountain bike and lead others in the activity? Want to learn more about mountain bike equipment? Join us in this 1 credit course where we meet for a few on-line sessions to prepare for two full days of hands on learning and mountain biking. We’ll bike on local trails near Fort Collins while learning how to effectively lead others.

Important Information

This is a partial semester, 1 credit course with 3 weeks of online content followed by an overnight backing trip. Dates and times for online sessions would be September 11th, 18th and 25th 7-9pm each evening. Field trip dates would be September 28th and 29th from 9am – 5pm. Field days are held near Fort Collins. Must know how to ride a bikeMountain bikes not included.

Instructors

Ethan Billingsley
Ethan Billingsley

9704914994 | ethan.billingsley@colostate.edu

Ethan Billingsley is an alumnus of Warner College – earning his B.S. in Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism and his M.S. in Human Dimensions of Natural Resources. He served as director of undergraduate programs in the college from 2008-2018. Additionally, he is an instructor for the Adventure Tourism graduate certificate program in HDNR.
Prior to joining CSU, Ethan worked as both an educator and guide in various capacities. He has led single and multi-day whitewater rafting trips for the last 20 years and is currently a certified raft guide in the state of Colorado. He has climbed all 58 of the Colorado’s 14,000ft mountains and led many CSU groups to those summits as well. He also spent 7 summers working in summer camps where he gained considerable experience in group dynamics and leadership. Additional experience has included work as a rock-climbing instructor, backpacking guide, and sea-kayaking naturalist. Ethan loves learning about the ecology of an area as much as he likes adventuring in it. In his free time, Ethan loves spending as much time as he can with his wife and two sons in the outdoors.