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Stop #2 of the So-Gnar Mighty Midwest Tour at Buck Hill started Saturday, December 17th. The temps were warm, the campers were stoked, and the park set up was insane thanks to the So-Gnar crew, Jason and his park crew who were building it until 4a.m the night before.

First, the campers met inside the lodge to get a quick run-down of the camp and to meet up with their coaches. After that everyone rushed to the hill and were strapped in within seconds. The various groups took only a couple of warm up laps before heading to our irresistible private setup.

After getting used to the setup and slowly starting to throw down and learn new tricks, it was time for the campers to refuel with the help of Evol Burritos. Lunch time allowed campers to talk about their day so far with others and relax their muscles they've been working so hard. After lunch and a couple of Red Bulls, the campers were anxious to get back out to our course. The rest of the day was spent in our private course aside from maybe a couple of rope/lift laps. The campers were used to the course by now and were learning new tricks along with throwing down hammers that no one even knew they could do.

By the end of day 1, campers were exhausted from hiking all day but somehow still found energy to compete in the So-Gnar Shred Circuit Contest Series later that night. Luckily, they had a couple hours in-between to relax, eat, maybe even take a nap. ----

The morning of day 2 you could see that everyone was tired from day 1 but were surprisingly stoked for another day of shredding. All the campers headed straight to the So-Gnar park after a warm up run because they couldn't get enough of it the day before.

Now being very familiar to the setup, campers focused more on learning bigger tricks and throwing in some style. The day wasn't even half over and campers were progressing at an incredible rate. Around noon the campers went in for another Evol Burrito lunch that was much needed to gain energy for the traditional progression session.

After lunch the campers had another hour or so to do whatever they'd like before the progression session started. At around 1p.m, the progression session started and let me tell you campers really did progress.

Kids just started throwing down hammers left and right out of nowhere! Some of these were even first or second try! Every camper had a smile on his face and were loving the media attention. Although the progression session ended at 3, it was difficult to get campers inside because too much fun was being had.

We finally gathered the campers inside and spent a couple minutes figuring out awards for all of the kids. Anxiously awaiting, the campers were stoked to see Pat, Aaron, and Austin walk inside with the list of awards. Every camper got an award as a gift for joining camp thanks to all of our awesome sponsors.

We hope every camper had as much fun this year as we all did. You all made the Buck HIll stop such an amazing time and memories were made!

Coaches for stop 2 at Buck HIll included: Pat Milbery, Aaron Ezman, Austin Ezman, Jonas Michilot, Jordan Michilot, Josh Tranby, Louie Arrigoni, Alex Miller, Casey Rodriguez and Joe Mertes.

Head here to check out all the photos from the Buck Hill stop.