Time to prepare for summer camp and Colorado hiking. You couldn’t ask for a better setting to enjoy outdoor fun! Kids with Type 1 diabetes have big treats in-store at the Colorado American Diabetes Association 2009 summer camp….
ADA Summer Camp Colorado
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The Eight Annual 2009 PowerSox United States National Snowshoe Championship
March 8, 2009 White River Snow Park on the flanks of Mount Hood just outside of Portland Oregon
Congratulations to our Nurse Practitioner (Cindy Cain) from the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes in Denver. She is not only a great caregiver to our 8-year-old son who has type 1 diabetes, she is also a champion snowshoer winning first in her division! Go Cindy! See you on the trails!
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Our 8-year-old son has type 1 diabetes and we can’t really predict when he will get a sugar low while on the trail. So, one of our favorite treats to pack in the backpack are these snack-sized Milky Way bars or Snickers. Reminds me of Halloween candy! 
One or two will usually do the trick with a can of juice and we make it to the top of our hike destination. Last hike we did was Reynold’s Park (Raven’s Roost Trail).
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Hiking with a child with diabetes can be a challenge. But we discovered that as long as we have all the right supplies, and plenty of them with us on the trail, we all have a great time and the challenge becomes small. After a year and a half of living with Type 1 diabetes, we have discovered a great place to buy these great sport bracelets for our 7-year old. He doesn’t like the metal bracelets and so, like Lance Armstrong, he wears the little plastic ones. His favorite color scheme is camoflauge – see a all their color samples here.
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Colorado offers summer camp for kids with diabetes. Nurture that love for the outdoors in children with diabetes while they enjoy a safe, fun-filled time!
“The American Diabetes Association’s Camp Colorado is held at beautiful Eagle Lake camp in the heart of Pike National Forest. Only 9 miles outside of Woodland Park, CO and a short distance from Colorado Springs, Camp Colorado is an idyllic summer camp setting. We encourage each camper to learn something new about diabetes management but never force education. At Camp Colorado we believe that each camper will take something away that is specific to that campers stage of development. And with three Camp programs, one is sure to excite your child”! Click here for the programs ADA offers: Camp Dates: June 29 – July 4, 2008. Check FunColoradoHikes website for fun family hikes and tips for hiking with diabetic kids.
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You may have noticed that the Fun Colorado Family Hikes website was down for most of 2007 and there were few new posts to this blog. There were two main reasons for this: our 6 year old son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (what a shock; there is no family history of it), and the second reason was, we had a baby (our fourth)! What a busy year!!
Our first time out on the trail with our diabetic son was an interesting learning experience. Because we were new to the blood sugar control and insulin regimin, we really didn’t know what to expect (how much extra food, snacks, lunch, timing the hike and eating, how to carry the supplies, etc.).
We managed the day through trial and error and figured out how his body works and how much extra foods, juices and test strips to pack. (Needless to say, on another hike later in the year, we found ourselves on top of Guanella pass on the Mt Bierstadt trail with an empty test strip bottle at lunch time – that caused us a little anxiety).
We have since figured out how to continue our hiking weekends without diabetes stopping us. Our son has been a real champion dealing with the finger-pricks and shots, highs and lows, etc.
Any parent with a newly diagnosed diabetic child knows how difficult it is to figure out the insulin thing. But, I would recommend that you just get out there and do it! Keep on living and doing fun activities! You’ll figure it out, just be prepared with extras of everything. We haven’t graduated to the pump yet, but if anyone has advice about hinking while on the pump, please post it here!
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