When it comes to running, the world is divided into two camps: do or do not. The world of competitive running, however, is much more fragmented.

"I'm excited by the feedback I'm getting from it. The biggest compliment I get is everybody says it's unique, and that's important because a lot of stuff out there on social media is just rehashing other stuff." — Rich Moore, aka Semi-Sendy

Fly fishing Great Smoky Mountains National Park is less about catching big fish and more about experiences and the places it takes you.

The dawning of spring means change. Wildflowers burst forth. Birds chirp like it is the first day of their life. The days warm, bookended by still-cool nights. The smell of cut grass hangs in the air, a sign of the life that is returning.

It takes a hike to see the most beautiful scenery in the Scenic City, but most hikers who want to capture the experience spend their time taking selfies rather than enjoying the views.

Started by four college roommates at Mississippi State, Burlaep originally designed and sold T-shirts to raise money for a children's mission in Honduras.

At age 10, Jack Guin already knows his way around a canoe — and a number of local whitewater runs, too, including the Class IV North Chick, a steep creek in Soddy-Daisy that intimidates paddlers twice his age.

Each spring, the wood thrush returns to Tennessee — famished.

This year was supposed to be one for the books for the Chattanooga Track Club.

For the past 15 years, the Head of the Hooch, one of the world's largest rowing regattas, has attracted thousands of competitors and spectators alike to the Tennessee River in downtown Chattanooga.

Growing up, Mitch Groothuis' father used camping as a way to bring the family together by taking him and his two brothers on an annual trip to Norris Lake near Knoxville for a week every summer for 14 years.

Meet Erin Elizabeth Flettrich, local artist and climber.

One can wonder why backpackers do what they do. After all, they go to a lot of trouble, and sometimes expense, to find a place where they can sleep between two trees or lie on the ground.

If you've been on Instagram in the past few years, chance are you're familiar with #vanlife.

Even on the days you cannot be in the field searching for new species to cross off your checklist, there are still ways to bird. This season, let your imagination soar by indulging in others' adventures — or misadventures, depending on who's telling the story. Birders, after all, are an offbeat bunch, which makes them always entertaining characters.

This year upended Jim Johnson's plans for retirement and has decimated his successful European bicycle tourism business for the foreseeable future. However, the local cyclist hopes his previous bike advocacy work and an updated business model can lead to a new venture in regional bike tourism in 2021.

My younger brother and I spent years of summers circling a golf course pond. Over thousands of casts we learned the intricacies of an enclosed ecosystem, first with bream and bobbers and then with largemouth bass.

The best time for camping is the first couple of weekends after the air first starts to feel crisp in the morning — that long-awaited departure from the heavy blanket of humidity that greets us on most summer days in Chattanooga. The more pleasant temperatures also usher in the always-stunning effect of the leaves' transformation from shades of green to vibrant yellows, oranges and reds.

As the spring of COVID-19 has become the summer and likely the fall of COVID-19, people have been forced to learn new ways of going about their lives to live safely with a disease that has upended the world.

When Heath Rowland goes to Big Soddy Gorge, his favorite local place to climb, he rarely sees a Black person, he says.

When introducing children to paddling, the younger, the better, says Zach Bopp, supervisor of experiences at Chattanooga's REI.

In 2019, Luke Thompson was visiting the Canadian Rockies, his heart set on spotting a spruce grouse.

On Feb. 13, 2015, Caryville angler Gabe Keen caught a 15-pound, 3-ounce largemouth bass fishing out of Chester Frost Park on Chickamauga Lake.