Outdoors

Published
October 24, 2010

Zip lines add to adventure offerings around the U.S.

LANSING, W.Va. – Many visitors to the New River Gorge typically get acquainted with the area by battling whitewater on the New and Gauley rivers, climbing rock faces or trekking through the woods on mountain bikes. For those of us who enjoy exploring the outdoors, but might not feel like getting soaked or muddy, canopy […]
Published
October 24, 2010

Outdoors Dispatches

FREEPORT L.L. Bean kicks off season with free hunter’s breakfast In celebration of the opening of the Maine deer season, L.L.Bean will once again offer a free hunter’s breakfast from 4:30 a.m. to 8 a.m. Saturday, or as long as the food lasts. The menu includes buttermilk pancakes, game sausages, home fries, scrambled eggs, smoked […]
Published
October 17, 2010

Calendar: Your Outdoors Guide

Maine Audubon will host a special presentation on Mission Wolf on Monday at Gilsland Farm in Falmouth. There will be two programs, one beginning at 4 p.m. and one at 7 p.m. Mission Wolf is a remote sanctuary for wolves in Colorado. Two live gray wolves and a wolf-dog hybrid will be at the presentation. […]
Published
October 17, 2010

Trail and Error: Easy peeping ride provides ups and downs

There’s no shame in leaf peeping. Mother Nature isn’t embarrassed about her natural good looks, despite the red hues that spread across the woods this time of year like a blush. Critics might call her autumnal display showy. Evergreens might roll their eyes amidst their deciduous neighbors, whose flamboyant performance is a little over the […]
Published
October 17, 2010

Keeping wolves wild

That's the purpose of an unlicensed sanctuary in Limington that recognizes the animal's nature.

Published
October 17, 2010

Deirdre Fleming: Lyme lurks again after summer rest

The rapid speed at which Lyme disease cases were being reported this spring seems to have slowed, probably due to the dry and hot summer conditions, according to officials at the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s a good-news, bad-news situation, because now officials say ticks will be back out in droves — […]
Published
October 17, 2010

Allen Afield: New bicycle sells itself on test ride

It’s odd how life works. This fall, I have looked in small, local bicycle shops for a composite-framed road bike to replace my aluminum-framed Specialized Secteur, but these businesses lacked the inventory to meet my needs and price range. One shop actually wanted me to part with over two grand before ordering the bicycle and […]
Published
October 17, 2010

Hunting: Youth day keeps tradition alive

The big event, the regular firearms season on deer, still lies a couple weeks away, but this coming Saturday represents a very important precursor. On Maine’s youth deer day, hunters between the ages of 10 and 16 will team up with parent/guardian sponsors to get a first crack at what’s expected to be a rejuvenated […]
Published
October 17, 2010

Birding: Birds who stay for the snow have to hoard

As we harvest the last of the vegetables from our garden, I think about birds putting food aside for the winter. Hoarding food is a way for some land birds to tough it out in a northern winter. The benefits of not having to migrate are huge. Black-capped chickadees are well known for their food-hoarding […]
Published
October 17, 2010

Dispatches for 10/17/2010

BRUNSWICK ‘Ride the Divide’ depicts famed mountain bike race The Maine premiere of “Ride the Divide,” an award-winning feature-length documentary about the world’s toughest mountain bike race, will take place at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Frontier Cafe & Cinema. The film chronicles mountain bikers attempting the 2,711-mile Tour Divide race along the Continental Divide […]

Sign In:

Outdoors