Outdoors
The latest Outdoors coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Sports section.
More in Outdoors, page 86
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Fixing the flume: Repairs to Ocoee River structure just getting started [photos]
Through a post-rain haze on a foggy Wednesday morning, the Ocoee River's wooden flume sat as it has for more than 100 years: high above the river overlooking the rocky terrain hundreds of feet below.

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Chattanooga area golf course superintendent wins top conservation award
A local golf course supervisor will receive a conservation award next week in San Antonio at one of the nation's largest golf shows.

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Case: Hey hunters, the fun is only beginning
Just about this time every year, most outdoors writers do the same thing and publish a column or article about putting away all of your guns and gear.

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Chattanooga area outdoors calendar, Feb. 1, 2018
Winter Workshop Series: Today, Fishing 101, 6-7:30 p.m., Outdoor Chattanooga, Coolidge Park.

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‘Gnarly’ downhill mountain bike course opens in region [video, photos]
Eleven rugged men equipped with pick axes, shovels and a chainsaw made an arduous descent down the extraordinarily steep slopes at the Trials Training Center property in Sequatchie, Tenn., on Saturday morning to carve new passageways to connect to an old trail.

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Young Tennessee racer debuts on the small screen
Carter Davison made history at Lonesome Pine Raceway in 2017. Now fans have a chance to follow the young Elizabethton driver's record-setting season.

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Environmental education course gets kids out of the classroom [photos]
About a dozen Ivy Academy students gazed across a thriving ecosystem in a shallow marsh near a pull-off on the Tennessee Riverwalk. The students were asked to describe what they were experiencing as a looming Lookout Mountain shaped the background.

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New hiking trail to open in Chattanooga area this weekend
A new hiking trail climbs the eastern edge of Prentice Cooper State Forest, ascending more than 1,000 feet with two main water crossings and several smaller ones sprinkled throughout.

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Disabled Air Force colonel from Cleveland, Tenn., gets to ski again
In the early 2000s Shawn "Norm" Pederson was the lead pilot for the Thunderbirds, the spectacular precision flying team of the United States Air Force.

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Chattanooga area outdoors calendar
Winter Workshop Series: Wilderness First Aid part 2 is today from 6-7:30 p.m.
