Comments on: Weekend Outdoor Reads for January 15th http://www.campingblogger.net/uncategorized/weekend-outdoor-reads-for-january-15th.html Read CampingBlogger and Take the Kids Camping Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:07:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: Roy Scribner http://www.campingblogger.net/uncategorized/weekend-outdoor-reads-for-january-15th.html/comment-page-1#comment-21378 Roy Scribner Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:34:00 +0000 http://www.campingblogger.net/?p=3323#comment-21378 Yes, I wonder about that too, Marc! 3 or 4 crazy teens piled onto a truck innertube and being launched into the air at the bottom of the hill! Yes, I wonder about that too, Marc! 3 or 4 crazy teens piled onto a truck innertube and being launched into the air at the bottom of the hill!

]]> By: Roy Scribner http://www.campingblogger.net/uncategorized/weekend-outdoor-reads-for-january-15th.html/comment-page-1#comment-21377 Roy Scribner Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:32:07 +0000 http://www.campingblogger.net/?p=3323#comment-21377 Thanks, Jenn - wow, no sledding without snowpants - that is serious! We watched a teen trying to learn to snowboard, last year, and she lost her balance and hit her head on some hard-pack snow. I'm a firm believer in wearing the proper safety gear, even on the gentle slopes. Thanks, Jenn – wow, no sledding without snowpants – that is serious! We watched a teen trying to learn to snowboard, last year, and she lost her balance and hit her head on some hard-pack snow. I’m a firm believer in wearing the proper safety gear, even on the gentle slopes.

]]> By: Marc http://www.campingblogger.net/uncategorized/weekend-outdoor-reads-for-january-15th.html/comment-page-1#comment-21160 Marc Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:45:25 +0000 http://www.campingblogger.net/?p=3323#comment-21160 Reading the sledding rules makes me wonder how I survived all the days of piling as many of as we could on top of the giant inter-tube and heading down the hill, launching off of jumps of course! I could have used these before taking my own kids sledding earlier this year though. After an hour or so of watching my oldest launch himself repeatedly off of a jump we returned home, where he promptly complained to my wife that his back hurt and explained why. I was put under strict orders not to let him go off of jumps ever again. Of course, she didn't say that I couldn't! Great list of reads again, as usual. The photos in particular were amazing, I'd encourage everyone to click through to that one! I also loved the map of the trail systems. I have a great big topo of Colorado hanging in my office at work, this one might look great next to it! Reading the sledding rules makes me wonder how I survived all the days of piling as many of as we could on top of the giant inter-tube and heading down the hill, launching off of jumps of course!

I could have used these before taking my own kids sledding earlier this year though. After an hour or so of watching my oldest launch himself repeatedly off of a jump we returned home, where he promptly complained to my wife that his back hurt and explained why. I was put under strict orders not to let him go off of jumps ever again. Of course, she didn’t say that I couldn’t!

Great list of reads again, as usual. The photos in particular were amazing, I’d encourage everyone to click through to that one! I also loved the map of the trail systems. I have a great big topo of Colorado hanging in my office at work, this one might look great next to it!

]]> By: Jenn http://www.campingblogger.net/uncategorized/weekend-outdoor-reads-for-january-15th.html/comment-page-1#comment-21144 Jenn Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:08:30 +0000 http://www.campingblogger.net/?p=3323#comment-21144 Thanks for this great list of weekend reads. I did read the sledding one right away and agree with it. At the school I work at we have a good size sledding hill for lower school kids. On a good snow day there is a line going up the hill of kids in all their gear carrying sleds that looks like gold prospectors trying to cross mountain ranges in the Alaska gold rush days. One day this week as I was walking up the hill (on a pathway)and two 3rd grade girls were coming down, bemoaning the fact that they didn't have their snowpants so they could not sled. Serious stuff if you don't have your snowpants! In fact if you dont have your boots and snowpants you cant go trekking in the woods tracking deer and squirrel during EnvEd class! but I digress...That sledding rule list is right on. We pad up our trees with hay bales in the fall and have never had any accidents. In the old days when they had the metal runner sleds they used to ice up the trail down through the woods to the back soccer field and have a good long run. Not so much of that any more though! Thanks for these nice lists. I really like the one a while back with the pics of the 100 days in one of the parks. Wow. Thanks for this great list of weekend reads. I did read the sledding one right away and agree with it. At the school I work at we have a good size sledding hill for lower school kids. On a good snow day there is a line going up the hill of kids in all their gear carrying sleds that looks like gold prospectors trying to cross mountain ranges in the Alaska gold rush days. One day this week as I was walking up the hill (on a pathway)and two 3rd grade girls were coming down, bemoaning the fact that they didn’t have their snowpants so they could not sled. Serious stuff if you don’t have your snowpants! In fact if you dont have your boots and snowpants you cant go trekking in the woods tracking deer and squirrel during EnvEd class! but I digress…That sledding rule list is right on. We pad up our trees with hay bales in the fall and have never had any accidents. In the old days when they had the metal runner sleds they used to ice up the trail down through the woods to the back soccer field and have a good long run. Not so much of that any more though! Thanks for these nice lists. I really like the one a while back with the pics of the 100 days in one of the parks. Wow.

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