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Outdoors

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Socializing on Two Wheels: Community Rides and Races

In Guides, Outdoors by Sage DavisJune 21, 2017leave a COMMENT

Bicycling isn’t just for getting to work or sweating profusely in the Urban Wilderness—it’s also your ticket for meeting new friends on community rides, races, and movie nights. American Red …

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Surviving the Ocoee River’s heart-pounding whitewater

In Outdoors, Voice in the Wilderness by Kim TrevathanJune 7, 2017leave a COMMENT

I’d put off rafting the famous Middle Ocoee for years. Just the look of it spitting rafts and kayaks down what looked like a continuous hellstorm of whitewater rage had …

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Norm: A final trek with a faithful outdoors companion

In Outdoors, Voice in the Wilderness by Kim TrevathanMay 24, 2017leave a COMMENT

Not until we lose a pet do we fully realize how intimately they connect us to nature and the wild animal part that we share with them. Norm, my dog, …

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A Survey of Detritus Discovered (or Left Behind) in the Wild

In Outdoors, Voice in the Wilderness by Kim TrevathanMay 10, 2017leave a COMMENT

I’m pretty good at losing stuff in the wilderness. The Cumberland River took a micro-cassette recorder full of my jumbled thoughts. I forgot a cherished hiking stick on Honey Creek …

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Fishing on a Fine Spring Day, Hip-Deep in Citico Creek

In Outdoors, Voice in the Wilderness by Kim TrevathanApril 19, 2017leave a COMMENT

In the middle of Citico Creek, wearing a borrowed pair of chest waders and felt-soled boots three sizes too big, I sat down on a rock that was a half-foot …

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