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• Bike Ride on the Indian Head Rail Trail

  • When
    02 Apr 2023
  •  
    10:30 AM - 2:30 PM
  • Location
    Indian Head, MD
  • Registered
    7 registrants

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  Spring bike ride!
  

  We haven't biked for a very long time, so we're starting out gently with an easy beginners ride on the Indian Head Rail Trail in Charles County, MD.
  

  The paved trail runs 13 miles for an out-and-back total of 26 miles, but we'll probably bike a much shorter distance, say 10-15 miles. Because it's a rail trail, our ride will be mostly flat with just a gentle rise on the way out, which means a nice glide on the way back.

  Here's a bit of what Rail-Trails Mid-Atlantic says about the Indian Head Rail Trail: "Cyclists and hikers can experience the surroundings of mature forests, natural wetlands, and occasional farmland as they pass through the Mattawoman Creek stream valley and some of southern Maryland's most scenic and undeveloped natural areas. . . . No matter your pace, the Indian Head Rail Trail is bound to delight."
  

  We'll stop along the way for water and snack breaks and then eat our lunch at the end of the ride at a park near Mattawoman Creek.
  

  Registration closes on Friday, March 31. In the event of rain this activity will be cancelled and all registrants will be notified.
  

  This free activity is open to members and non-members of Women Outdoors. Non-members are welcome to attend two WO events as guests. On your third event, we'll ask you to join the Mid-Atlantic Region of Women Outdoors. You can also join right now by clicking on this Join Us link.

  Bring:

  • Helmet (required)
  • Spare tubes or repair kit
  • Bike pump
    
  • Water
    
  • Snacks for the trail
  • Brown bag lunch for afterwards
    

  Please respect the trip leaders and other members and arrive on time - 10:30 a.m.
  

  WO members and guests must agree to our Assumption of Risk Statement during the registration process.

  The automatic confirmation email is the only email you will receive about this event. Be sure and save it or print it out.
  

  RSVP and Cancellation – IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ
  

  Be sure to copy down the address and trip leader contact information from the confirmation email to bring with you as there might not be good cell service at the event location.

  If you register but then are unable to attend, please cancel your registration. Events may be cancelled due to lack of attendance, as well as changes in weather or other circumstances. 

  If you must cancel at the last minute, call or text the event host/trip leader (see your confirmation email for contact details) and let her know who it is who is calling/texting.
  

  To Cancel: Go to your Registration List

  • Click on this event in your list.
  • Click on the Already registered link under the REGISTER button.
  • At the next page that opens with your registration form, click on the CANCEL REGISTRATION button, and then click again on Cancel Registration on the pop-up form.
  • Ignore the link to contact the administrator.

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• WOOF: My Experience on "Alone" with Jessie Krebs

  • When
    02 Apr 2023
  •  
    6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    online

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  WOOF: Women Outdoors Online Funtimes

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  My Experience on "Alone"

  
  

  COMING TO YOU ON ZOOM

  If you love the outdoors and/or you’re a fan of the show History Channel's ALONE, come hang with us as we talk about my experience during 46 days in the backcountry of Labrador with minimal equipment on season 9. Come with questions about my experience or other aspects of the show! We will touch on long-term survival tactics and strategies.

  You can now watch Season 9 of "Alone" on Hulu!

  Note: Zoom Meeting Details will be sent with your confirmation email

  About Jessie:
  
  

  A former USAF S.E.R.E. Specialist (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape), Jessie Krebs has felt a strong connection with wild places since her childhood in Michigan.  After the military she pursued a BA in educational psychology, directed team building courses, and worked in wilderness therapy for over a decade.  She now runs a survival school based out of the Denver area and is enjoying teaching global survival skills to folks that actually want to learn them for a change!  A survivor of childhood abuse she finds the outdoors to be healing and empowering, and thus enjoys encouraging others to explore it safely and with confidence. 

  
  

  In the last few years she’s been drawn into various media roles as a reality TV personality (History’s “ALONE: season 9” and National Geographic’s “Mygrations”) and online educator (MasterClass).  She recently opened a school based in Colorado (OWLSSkills.com), which teaches the global survival and evasion techniques she learned and once taught in the military, to civilians with a focus on women and marginalized demographics.

  
  

  There are more WOOF events coming up soon:

  Dates to be determined:

  • How to Plan and Prepare for Bucket List Adventures with Bunny Kramer
  • Curveballs: A sharing session for how trip leaders for Women Outdoors and Appalachian Mountain Club, among other outdoor outing organizations, deal with trip-leading issues

  Do you have a WOOF session you'd like to lead, with our support and Zoom account? Say...

  • A virtual yoga session
  • A cooking segment
  • A slideshow on your fabulous vacation
  • A session on winter hiking or other outdoor skills
  • A session with the author of a great outdoors book

  Alternatively, do you have a presenter you'd like to suggest?

  Please don't hesitate to contact the WOOF organizers at WOOF@womenoutdoors.org.

  And please make sure to attend our WOOF sessions. We look forward to Zooming with you!

  *** RSVP and Cancellations – IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ ***

  Please respect the host and other members and update your RSVP if you sign-up but then are unable to attend, especially if there is an attendee limit for this event! Events may be cancelled due to lack of attendance or other circumstances. 
  

  To Cancel: Go to your  Registration List

  • Click on this event in your list
  • Click on the Already registered link under the REGISTER button.
  • At the next page that opens with your registration form, click on the CANCEL REGISTRATION button, and then again click on Cancel Registration on the pop-up form.
  • Ignore the link to contact the administrator

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• WOOF: Remotely Guided Forest Therapy | Shinrin Yoku Walk

  • When
    08 Apr 2023
  •  
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    online
  • Spaces left
    10

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  WOOF: Women Outdoors Online Funtimes

  Join us for 

  "Remotely Guided Forest Therapy |
  Shinrin Yoku Walk"

  COMING TO YOU ON ZOOM

  A guided Forest Therapy walk is a celebration of nature and human connection helping us to relax, recharge, improve our moods and concentration, boost our immune system functioning, experience the felt experience of aliveness, slowing down, getting new insights, being naturally creative... and then bringing all of this with a big smile back home to our daily life.

  This event is limited to 20 participants.

  Note: Zoom Meeting Details will be sent with your confirmation email

  About June:
  

  June has always had a desire to help others and a love of Nature. As a young child she climbed & sat in trees, hiked local trails, as an adult she backpacked in the Adirondacks Mountains. She has a passion for art as her father was an oil painter and she grew up drawing and painting. As a young adult she learned wheel throwing pottery and she assisted a local potter in the operations of the studio and teaching classes. She pursued a 42 year career in the medical field where she worked as a Registered/ Licensed Occupational Therapist (OTR/L) in the field of Rehabilitation & Hand Therapy. Here she found the medical field only focused on the physical body but lacked addressing the whole person particularly mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of the individual. She pursued additional extensive training in different mindfulness & meditation techniques as well as becoming a Reiki Master utilizing these techniques which she provided along with her Occupational Therapy treatment sessions. These additional techniques greatly helped patients better manage pain, anxiety and decrease their stress levels and improving their ability to focus. June retired after 42 years as an OTR/L but she wanted to continue to help her community and continues to offer services and teach methods to help manage one’s stress and health issues as well as offering reiki sessions and teaching reiki classes. June’s desire to continue helping others and her love of Nature led her to become a Certified Forest Therapy Guide through The Association Nature and Forest Therapy Guides (ANFT). June is very passionate about guiding others to experience Nature in a different way. She feels that by sharing her knowledge and guiding others in this forest bathing practice will give them the tools to manage their stress and discover the ability to enhance healing themselves though boosting their immune system as well as increasing relaxation and emotional contentment by partnering with Nature. This practice also deepens one’s relationship with ourselves and the world around us.

  There are more WOOF events coming up soon:
  

  Dates to be determined:

  • Curveballs: A sharing session for how trip leaders for Women Outdoors and Appalachian Mountain Club, among other outdoor outing organizations, deal with trip-leading issues

  Do you have a WOOF session you'd like to lead, with our support and Zoom account? Say...

  • A virtual yoga session
  • A cooking segment
  • A slideshow on your fabulous vacation
  • A session on winter hiking or other outdoor skills
  • A session with the author of a great outdoors book

  Alternatively, do you have a presenter you'd like to suggest?

  Please don't hesitate to contact the WOOF organizers at WOOF@womenoutdoors.org.

  And please make sure to attend our WOOF sessions. We look forward to Zooming with you!

  *** RSVP and Cancellations – IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ ***

  Please respect the host and other members and update your RSVP if you sign-up but then are unable to attend, especially if there is an attendee limit for this event! Events may be cancelled due to lack of attendance or other circumstances. 
  

  To Cancel: Go to your  Registration List

  • Click on this event in your list
  • Click on the Already registered link under the REGISTER button.
  • At the next page that opens with your registration form, click on the CANCEL REGISTRATION button, and then again click on Cancel Registration on the pop-up form.
  • Ignore the link to contact the administrator

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• WOOF: Survival Scenarios with Jessie Krebs

  • When
    30 Apr 2023
  •  
    6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    online

  Register

  WOOF: Women Outdoors Online Funtimes

  Join us for 

  "Survival Scenarios
  with Jessie Krebs"

  
  

  COMING TO YOU ON ZOOM

  Every survival experience is different.  The people involved must balance and prioritize many factors and needs to optimize their odds of success.  In this session, we’ll look at one or more survival events and discuss what other actions could have been taken to improve it, get out of it sooner, or prevent it altogether.  We’ll also take a brief gander at the five basic needs of a survivor which is the foundation for understanding and functioning during a survival situation.  Hope to see you there!

  Note: Zoom Meeting Details will be sent with your confirmation email

  About Jessie:
  
  A former USAF S.E.R.E. Specialist (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape), Jessie Krebs has felt a strong connection with wild places since her childhood in Michigan.  After the military she pursued a BA in educational psychology, directed team building courses, and worked in wilderness therapy for over a decade.  She now runs a survival school based out of the Denver area and is enjoying teaching global survival skills to folks that actually want to learn them for a change!  A survivor of childhood abuse she finds the outdoors to be healing and empowering, and thus enjoys encouraging others to explore it safely and with confidence. 

  In the last few years she’s been drawn into various media roles as a reality TV personality (History’s “ALONE: season 9” and National Geographic’s “Mygrations”) and online educator (MasterClass).  She recently opened a school based in Colorado (OWLSSkills.com), which teaches the global survival and evasion techniques she learned and once taught in the military, to civilians with a focus on women and marginalized demographics.

  There are more WOOF events coming up soon:

  Dates to be determined:

  • Curveballs: A sharing session for how trip leaders for Women Outdoors and Appalachian Mountain Club, among other outdoor outing organizations, deal with trip-leading issues

  Do you have a WOOF session you'd like to lead, with our support and Zoom account? Say...

  • A virtual yoga session
  • A cooking segment
  • A slideshow on your fabulous vacation
  • A session on winter hiking or other outdoor skills
  • A session with the author of a great outdoors book

  Alternatively, do you have a presenter you'd like to suggest?

  Please don't hesitate to contact the WOOF organizers at WOOF@womenoutdoors.org.

  And please make sure to attend our WOOF sessions. We look forward to Zooming with you!

  *** RSVP and Cancellations – IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ ***

  Please respect the host and other members and update your RSVP if you sign-up but then are unable to attend, especially if there is an attendee limit for this event! Events may be cancelled due to lack of attendance or other circumstances. 
  

  To Cancel: Go to your  Registration List

  • Click on this event in your list
  • Click on the Already registered link under the REGISTER button.
  • At the next page that opens with your registration form, click on the CANCEL REGISTRATION button, and then again click on Cancel Registration on the pop-up form.
  • Ignore the link to contact the administrator

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• Camping at Codorus State Park

  • Start
    19 May 2023
  •  
    3:00 PM
  • End
    21 May 2023
  •  
    3:00 PM
  • Location
    Hanover, PA
  • Registered
    8 registrants

  Register

  Yay, camping!

  We're heading to Codorus State Park in Hanover, PA for a weekend of outdoor adventure including hiking and boating.

  We have lots of options for outdoor fun! There are several hiking trails in the park as well as Lake Marburg, a popular fishing and boating destination with 26 miles of shoreline.

  You can bring your own boat or rent from AOS Marina on the lakeshore. In addition to kayaks and canoes, small fishing boats or even large pontoon boats are available to rent. Codorus State Park also has a designated mountain bike trail area and a disc-golf course.

  Doggies are welcome to come on this camping trip. You must reserve one of the designated pet friendly campsites (currently only available in loop C).

  The camping cost is $24/night (non-electric), $31/night (electric), $26/night (pet site, non-electric), $33 (pet site, electric) plus a $6.50 reservation fee, plus $5 more per night for non-Pennsylvania residents.
  

  Register with Women Outdoors first by clicking on the registration button on the left.

  As soon as you complete your Women Outdoors registration, you will receive an automatic email with the exact location where the trip leaders will be camping so you can select a nearby campsite through Reserve America or Pennsylvania State Parks. (See the campground map.)
  

  IMPORTANT: Once you have a campsite reserved, please send an email to MidAtlantic@womenoutdoors.org and Becky@womenoutdoors.org to let us know which site you have.
  

  This event is for Women Outdoors members only. If you would like to come on the camping trip and are not yet a member, please click on this Join Us link to become a member of Women Outdoors.

  Everyone must agree to the Women Outdoors Assumption of Risk statement during the registration process.

  Bring:

  • Tent or campervan
  • Any camping/cooking supplies you'll need
    
  • Food and drink for the weekend
  • Warm layers of clothing (no cotton; bring wool or synthetic)
    
  • Hat and gloves
  • Hiking boots
    
  • Hiking poles and binoculars
    
  • Kayak or canoe and PFD (required if boating)
    
  • Matches, fire starter. Bringing firewood into Pennsylvania is prohibited. Firewood may be purchased from the Friends of Codorus State Park near the campground entrance.
    
  • Trash bag (Pennsylvania state parks are trash free. You must carry out your trash and recyclables.)
    

  The automatic confirmation email will contain just a few details for this camping trip including the campsites where the trip leaders will be camping. It will also give the numbers of the nearby campsites. We will send out a follow-up email to everyone who has registered as we get closer to the trip.

  RSVP and Cancellation – IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ
  

  If you register but then are unable to attend, please cancel your registration with Women Outdoors.
  

  To Cancel: Go to your Registration List

  • Click on this event in your list.
  • Click on the Already registered link under the REGISTER button.
  • At the next page that opens with your registration form, click on the CANCEL REGISTRATION button, and then again click on Cancel Registration on the pop-up form.
  • Ignore the link to contact the administrator.

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