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This weekend: Park your kid, hike the MST, Tri Lake James
This weekend may finally solve the dilemma of how to get your kid off the couch and into wild. It’s also a great time to celebrate Mountains-to-Sea Trail Month, and a good time as well to indulge the...
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90 Second Escape: Winter into Spring
Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, every Monday we...
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Your weekend: More seasonable, more options
Jones Lake The snow and bitter cold are gone. Time to get back out and explore! Coast | Coastal Plain There’s something extra special about the Coastal Plain in winter. The still air, the open views,...
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This weekend: We get the fun off to an early start
Start your weekend Friday evening with a GetHiking! ramble along the Eno River. Start your weekend Friday evening in the Piedmont, learn how the woods once helped paint their own portraits at Elk Knob...
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This weekend: Get wet, go high
Mount Jefferson (photo courtesy Jason Barnette, Southeastern Traveler) Another hot, summery weekend is on tap, which means you have two choices for outdoor fun: get wet or go high. Coast Not that you...
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GetOut! Your Nudge for Weekend Adventure
After a dang cold week we’re heading into a darn nice weekend, with mostly sunny skies and temperatures, brace yourself, reaching 60. So if you’ve been hibernating so far this winter, now’s your...
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Pitchers, Catchers and spring wildflowers
When I was growing up in Colorado, my countdown to spring began when pitchers and catchers reported for training. It wasn’t warm enough to play baseball where I was, but it would be in six weeks or...
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GetOut! Spring weather, with the green of summer
On today’s Morning Walk with Joe on Facebook Live we marveled at the unique confluence facing us this weekend: cool temperatures (in the 60s and 70s) and sunny skies, and a fully leafed-out forest....
View ArticleGet a jump on your weekend with a Friday Morning Hike
Who wants to wait until Saturday to kick off the weekend? Especially when you have the option for a Friday Morning Hike. We launch our new GetHiking! Fall Friday Morning Hike Series a week from today...
View ArticleGetOut! Time to Fall Back in Love with Morning
It was still on the murky side of sun-up when we gathered this morning for our weekly GetHiking! Friday Morning Hike. As we fine-tuned our clothing strategies for dealing with the cold — at 30 degrees,...
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10 Hikes for Holiday Visitors
The holidays are upon us — and so, too, are our holiday visitors. You’re eager to show your visiting friends and family why you love living in the region: the outdoor opportunities that make this such...
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GetOut! Enjoy a snow-free weekend (finally)
Will it snow again this weekend? It looked likely at the beginning of the week, less likely as of today. So let’s go with the latest forecast, which calls for a mostly sunny weekend throughout the...
View ArticleGetOut! Check out spring now (and a month ago)
One of the reasons we like to do a GetBackpacking! trip to the Shining Rock area in April is because we get to revisit spring. Traditionally, we begin at the Shining Rock Creek/Big East Fork Trailhead...
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