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Happy trails at Oregon Ridge
Oregon Ridge is better known for its concerts by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, July 4th fireworks and other festivities outside its wooded periphery, but that will change Sunday when most of the action will be at the park's Nature Center — and...Tags: Music, Concerts, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
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READER SUBMITTED: Connecticut Trails Day Event In Hebron
StatewideThe New England Orienteering Club is sponsoring an event at Gay City State Park, Rte 85 in Hebron, on Sunday, June 2. This activity involves the use of a map and compass to locate a series of checkpoints indicated on the map. This event is part of the...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Tourism and Leisure, State Parks
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A map, a compass and your wits: the sport of orienteering
"OK, start!" calls the man with the clipboard, nodding toward a portable clock. That's my cue. Compass in hand, I dash out of the starting gate and up a grassy slope to the west of Lake Balboa, on a race toward … well, I'm not sure. Somewhere...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Florida travel calendar for November
Check out festivals and events in November across the state.
View events this coming weekend, or view the whole month's offerings by region below:
Coming up this week
Through Dec. 23. The Cannonball Christmas Express. Tavares. On select dates, the...Tags: Beef Brisket, Interior Policy, Separation of Church and State, Jimmy Buffett, Museums
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Florida travel calendar for September
Check out festivals and events in September across the state. Check out statewide events this coming weekend, or view the whole month's offerings by region below:
Coming up this week
Through Nov. 2 (Select Nights): Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party,...Tags: Joan Jett, Ed Smith, Poetry, Museums, Around The World Sailing
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Make fire and eat cattails at outdoor skills camp
MIKADO, Mich. - One dumb camper - me - left a tent pole at home. No problem for Jim Miller, owner of Willow Winds. He cut the trunk of a young tamarack, bent it into an arc, sharpened each end and, voila! Nature's tent pole.
It's not that someone else...Tags: Detroit Free Press, Forestry and Timber, Gardening, Trips and Vacations, Personal Service
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No reason for kids to have all the fun
If sending your kid to camp then heading to the spa is your thing, read no further. But if you would rather join the kids for fishing, hiking and other traditional camping activities, read on. Family camps welcome grown-ups too.
"It's a great way for...Tags: Fishing, Youth Organizations, Colleges and Universities, Climbing, Family
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Huntsville Teen Found in Woods
A 13-year-old boy who went missing overnight in a Walker County forest is safe at home tonight. "I look until I find the guy, and I found him," said Steve Degner of Montgomery County's Search and Rescue Team. Degner said Cody Moore got lost on Sunday...Tags: Forestry and Timber, Teen-agers, Hospitals and Clinics
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Upcoming area outdoor & extreme sports activities
From Staff ReportsBMX Saturday -- The Daytona BMX track is holding a summer series. The next races are scheduled for Friday, and then Oct. 14 and Nov. 4, and all will begin at 7:30 p.m. Practice will be from 6-7 p.m. The fee is $10 per race. The championship race is set...Tags: U.S. Open (golf), Motocross, Vehicles, Daytona International Speedway, Amway Center
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Goal oriented
Times Staff WriterLIKE tourists just off the bus, we stare intently at our maps, hunting for a direction. We're not the only ones. Around us, in a brushy meadow in Topanga State Park lit golden by the early morning sun, assorted map readers are fanning out across the...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Easter, Track and Field, Marathon, Dining and Drinking
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