Families that Play Together Stay Together
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| TWAI Group at The Hiawatha Trail |
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| TWAI Students on Trestle |
This week a group of our students and Directors embarked upon a sensational journey as they traveled south toward the Idaho/Montana border to mountain bike, the Route of the
Hiawatha Trail. The Hiawatha is a gentle sloping ride with a 2% grade as it was home to the Milwaukee Railroad and was referred to at one time as, “the most scenic stretches of railroad in the country.” The Hiawatha route is a fifteen mile trail that starts out with the Cavernous, Taft Tunnel which is over 1.6 miles in length. Without the aid of a headlamp, passage through the tunnel would be like riding your bike on a dirt road blind-folded. It is truly a unique outdoor experience to travel through the eleven tunnels, and cross over the nine high trestles as it meanders through the mountainous terrain following the Loop Creek drainage.
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| Taft Tunnel |
The boys and girls had an adventurous and fun day mountain biking the Hiawatha Trail. Many were amazed at how scenic the ride was and mentioned how they had planned on redoing this very trip with their own families. After a fun day of biking, the students stopped at Qdoba to eat dinner in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho before returning to Turning Winds Academic Institute.
The old saying of, “Families that play together, stay together,” certainly holds a lot of merit. This is undoubtedly the case at our therapeutic boarding school. Having fun together develops a greater sense of togetherness, support, a greater belonging to community, facilitates healing and opens the channel of communication. For more information about enrollment into our highly effective,
therapeutic school call us today at: 800-845-1380.
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| TWAI Students at Qdoba |
