Get Out
The latest Get Out coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Features section.
More in Get Out, page 68
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Getting Out and Giving Back
This Christmas, outdoor adventurers across Chattanooga might find a brand new bicycle, complete with a festive red bow, waiting for them next to the tree. Or, maybe the latest in tents is on their wish lists, the perfect gear for all those camping trips planned for 2015.
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Coosawattee Cruisin’
Paddlers know the beautiful oranges, reds and yellows of fall foliage are even prettier when reflected off of the water. And North Georgia paddlers know one of the prettiest places to see those colors is Carters Lake and the Coosawattee.
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The Running Chief
I've run from police officers before, but never with them.
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A Great Big World
It was 5 a.m. and Jennifer Poe hadn't slept a wink. She lay shivering on a borrowed sleeping pad, wearing a pair of borrowed ski pants, camping 400 feet above ground on an outcropping of rock.
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All Things Bright and Beautiful
The forest is quiet save for a delicate scratching beneath the earth. A velvety mole bores its way to the roots of a red maple. There, it pushes up from the soil and scurries into a blackberry thicket, picked clean by white tail deer. Past the thicket, a doe and her fawn pause alongside the cool, clear Brookshire Creek, winding its way to the Bald River, which, in turn, is winding its way to the sea, but first the river winds through the forest, cuts across the back of a ridge then falls off its rocky face into a deep pool below.
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Trail Tips
On remote trails, many times it's a miracle to have cell phone service. But don't leave that iPhone behind just because you can't Instagram your adventure. Filling your phone with useful non-data using items can save your life-if not some time-on the trails.
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Head of the Hooch
It's 6 a.m., the sun is still an hour from rising, but 20-plus UTC students are already awake and huddled by a locked gate on the Tennessee Riverwalk. It's not long until rowing coach Robert Espeseth unlocks the gate, and the group quietly pads down a metal ramp to a dock facing Maclellan Island. After a short meeting, the still bleary-eyed students heft 60-foot-long boats onto their shoulders-nine students to one boat-and carefully place them in the Tennessee River.
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Chicked
WHEN A WOMAN PASSES A MAN DURING A RACE, ON THE ROAD OR TRAILS, IT'S CALLED GETTING "CHICKED."
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Iron Finish
It's been nine months since we met our five Get Out Ironman triathletes in January. Each has faced his or her own obstacles, and each has reached new heights in physical fitness and endurance. Their bodies are denser, packed with muscle, but their minds are trained on September 28-the official race day of Ironman Chattanooga.
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Sticker Shock
In a world where almost all outdoor lovers drive small, foreign-made SUVs with roof racks, stickers are the way many choose to set their rides apart. And to help find their car in the 2 North Shore parking lot.