Roanoke Outside
Roanoke Outside Blog
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We’ve moved!
Not sure how you found us, but we’ve moved from this blog to www.RoanokeOutside.com – come check us out!
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ROANOKE, Va. (January 14, 2010) – The Roanoke Regional Partnership today launched RoanokeOutside.com – the most comprehensive and interactive resource to learn about and explore the Roanoke, Virginia region’s outdoors. As a result of this launch this blog will no longer be maintained. Please visit the new site for all your outdoor needs. The new [...]
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Help A.T. win $1MM
Chase is exploring a new way of charitable giving – harnessing the power of social networking to give individuals and communities a voice in corporate philanthropy. Facebook is the medium through which people can vote on their favorite charity/cause. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy submitted a proposal that identifies and nurtures the next generation of volunteer [...]
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A Trail to Every Classroom
The Appalachian Trail Conservancy is pleased to announce the 2010 Trail to Every Classroom workshop series. This workshop is offered free of charge. Applications are due March 5. A Trail to Every Classroom (TTEC) is a three-season, multi-disciplinary professional development series for educators aimed at providing the inspiration, knowledge and skills to transform classroom teaching [...]
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Mill Mountain Needs You!
Well, at least the trail system does. A survey has been created to gather public perceptions of Mill Mountain Park’s trails. Roanoke Parks and Recreation wants to provide numerous creative recreation opportunities to enhance the public enjoyment of this park and its trails. This survey is to help them better understand what kind of trail [...]
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Roanoke Can Recycle Glass Again
A contract with a Portsmouth firm that plans to build a recycling facility in the Roanoke Valley means city residents can recycle colored glass once again. Roanoke residents once again can recycle their colored glass. It’s been more than five years since the city stopped accepting the glass in recycling pickups, but a contract with [...]
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Outdoor Kids Book
Getting kids off the couch — and into the outdoors — is something Eugene Buchanan, former editor-in-chief of Paddler magazine and founder of Paddling Life, believes strongly in. To help parents get their kids outside, Buchanan wrote “Outdoor Parents, Outdoor Kids,” a 300-page tome to hiking, camping, swimming, paddling, snow sports, biking, fishing, and virtually [...]
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Summer Olympics or Winter Olympics – which are better?
Click Here and vote which Olympics you think is better. Feel free to also comment in the place provided through the previous link. We what to know what you think! Summer Olympics or Winter Olympics ?
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Snowboard Training Board- Gear Review
Snowboarding’s greatest rite of passage just might be getting through the first day on the hill. The sport’s often painful initiation can include countless brutal falls. Brand new snowboarders might take some pain out of the learning curve with Vew-Do’s Progression balance trainer, a board mounted on a fixed base which pivots, capturing the natural [...]
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Patagonian Edu Page
In one fell swoop, Gear Junkie has gone bilingual and launched a new education-based page on our Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race Channel. The page — designed for teens, kids and anyone else interested in the vast wilderness at the tip of the South American continent — is available in English and en Español. It contains [...]
