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Seventh Grade Kayaking Instruction Campout
This years seventh grade dads and daughters experienced a new campout for HATS. In keeping with our instructional campout themes, like our other grades and campouts, this year we changed to an instructional campout for kayaking to help prepare for the eight grade white water kayaking trip in San Marcos. Board Member Gary Hiener and tenth grade daughter Haley designed, created and directed this new campout. 
Dryland instruction was the first item of business from our expert group of kayak instructors hired to to teach us the ins and outs of kayaking. And of course there is always time to smile for the camera.
After the basics were taught we went to the water to practice our new skills.
Most people have a fear about being able to get out of their white water kayak if it turns over, so that was one of the instruction techniques after lunch. Everyone passed with flying colors.
This weekends theme was about balance. Balance in your kayak as well as balance in your life. During lunch each dad and daughter team created a balancing rock formation. Everyone's formation was different and everyone had a story about the meaning and significance of thier balance sculpture.
 Rick & Allison Young discuss the balance in their life at the Sunday morning breakout session. This was a great, great campout, and is definitely a keeper. With a new location for the campsite next year this campout will be one more of those very special weekends that dads and daughters talk about for years to come.
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