Rodger Bivens The first adventure of the season, Go Karting at Muscleman Honda Race Course, was held on Thursday, November 19; 13 club members participated, both gals and guys, and all participants completed the course in high spirits. Racing in two groups, club members zipped around the race track for two races. Each race was…
In February the SaddleBrooke Adventure Club made an excursion to Rocks and Ropes, a first class indoor rock climbing facility in downtown Tucson. This facility is a converted warehouse which has multiple climbing walls of various degrees of difficulty. The first order of business was to get the proper gear for the 10 participants –…
On March 5, the SaddleBrooke Adventure Club traveled to Eloy, Arizona, to sample the world class skydiving facilities at Skydive Arizona. It was a beautiful, sunny day with clear skies and just a light breeze; a perfect day for skydiving and the sky was filled with multicolored parachutes gracefully tracking toward the ground. One day…
Karen Schickedanz Continuing to feature adventures both far and near, the next two SaddleBrooke Hiking Club programs will feature Hiking in Tanzania and Mt. Kilimanjaro and summertime hiking in Oregon. First up, on Wednesday, March 18, is the program on Africa presented by Barbara and Jack Rosenthal. They hail from Montreal and have spent the…
Twenty three members of the SaddleBrooke Adventure Club took an afternoon trip to the local Tucson area paintball field known as Disruptive Paintball. This is the club’s third annual outing to the field and has proven to be one of the club’s most popular Adventures. Disruptive Paintball is an expansive area with six different fields…
Rodger Bivens The first adventure of the season, Go Karting at Muscleman Honda Race Course, was held on Thursday, November 20, 2014. Sixteen club members participated and all sixteen returned home unscathed. Racing in groups of eight, club members zipped around the race track three separate times. Each race was 12 minutes in duration and…
The Adventure Club will be holding its annual meeting at the HOA 1 Activities Center at 4:30 p.m. on November 14, 2014. All members and people interested in hearing about the club’s planned activities for this coming season are invited to attend. The SaddleBrooke Adventure Club’s mission is to organize unusual participative events that encourage…
Mike Wolters The Adventure Club held a new outing in February that really got the adrenaline going for ten club members; the art of lowering oneself off a vertical cliff face called rappelling. The club used Wild West Climbing out of Tucson for professional rock climbing instruction and they were amazing. The scene of the…
High above the ground the silvery outline of a small plane was barely visible as it climbed ever higher into the bright blue sky. Then a tiny black speck appeared to tumble from the plane and then another and another. Quickly those specks were lost to normal vision, but soon the sky blossomed with color…