Tag: Outdoors
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Beginner Bikepacking: The C&O Canal, harpers Ferry to D.C.
Once you get a gravel bike — and a whole world of routes and good fun enters your world — it’s a quick and slippery slope into exploring bikepacking. Lucky for me, I currently call D.C. home, and one of the most confident-inspiring bikepacking routes ends (or begins) right in my theoretical backyard: The C&O…
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Visiting Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon”
Down in the southwest corner of Georgia near the Alabama state line, on Canyon Road in a little town called Lumpkin, sits one of Georgia’s Seven Natural Wonders: Providence Canyon. The canyon has gained popular reference as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon” and it certainly bares resemblance. Instead of spending years being cut out by the…
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Alabama’s Best Kept Secret
“What is this place?” “The town of Spectre. Best kept secret in Alabama!” And best kept it is. Spectre is a fictional town that Edward Bloom stumbles into early in Tim Burton’s film ‘Big Fish’ (2003). The film was an adaptation of the book with the same name by Birmingham-born Daniel Wallace and is an…
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Finding Peace in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge
Every year around my birthday I always like to treat myself to a lesson; sometimes that lesson is self-care and culture immersion on a beach in Mexico or Spain, sometimes it’s something far deeper. Disconnecting in the Blue Ridge is something far deeper. There is a lesson in testing your strength, and there is a…
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Alternate Views: Paddle to See the Cherry Blossoms
Pandemic or not, cherry blossom season always gets crowded around the Tidal Basin. I mean, yes, they’re all elegantly hanging over the rippling basin in varying shades of pinks and whites and you get to glance across at the Jefferson Memorial; it’s whimsy. If foot traffic isn’t your thing, you can always ride the ripples of the…
Sara L. Cottle 