

Today’s guest blogger, REI employee Ching Fu, recounts the soaring highs and chilly lows of her bike tour of the entire Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway last summer: It had been raining for 3 days straight, and I was ready to just be home. But I had to keep pedaling. The bitter cold rain was an unwelcome surprise, especially since it was July in the southeast... ...
“It should be OK to wander in the woods for a bit with no plan whatsoever.” That’s the adventurous view of Jennifer Aist, author of the book Babes in the Woods and the mother of 4 kids in Anchorage, Alaska. The REI Blog asked Jen, who recently led a class on this topic at the REI Issaquah, Wash., store, for her thoughts on changing America’s increasingly structured, indoor culture—one child at a time. Q: What prompted you to write the Babes in the Woods book? A: I wrote the book to encourage ...
Posted by Steve T on October 15, 2010 7:28 PM & Tagged Hiking, babes in the woods, books, camping, jennifer aist and kids | permalink | Comments
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