Sierra Club/UpaDowna Kids Event!
Celebration of the Military Child:
Highlighting the value of the outdoors for our youngest military heroes!
Outdoor Activity Fair and Picnic Lunch on 17 July 2011, 10am-3 pm
America the Beautiful Park, Colorado Springs, CO
Please join the Sierra Club and UpaDowna in welcoming military children and their families (as well as ALL kids and families) in a day of outdoor fun and skills development and listen to participants from the recent National Military Family Association’s Operation Purple Camps in Colorado!
Activities will include: camping essentials, kids and bikes, gardening, slack-lining, disc golf, hiking safely in Colorado, Leave No Trace, Natural History of Colorado, and meeting many of the groups that can get you and your family outdoors! The first 250 people through registration the day of the event receive a ticket for a FREE lunch from La'aus Tacos!
Celebration of the Military Child at America the Beautiful Park is FREE and OPEN to the Public.
For more information contact: Stacy Bare; stacy.bare@sierraclub.org or Steve Hitchcock; yeti@upadowna.com
Randi Hitchcock
MtnMama
A fun loving adventure-aholic, MtnMama has a passion for all things outdoors, photography and meeting like-minded folks.
What do you learn in a
What do you learn in a camping essentials course?
Good question Lucas. You can
Good question Lucas. You can learn many things, Leave No Trace principals, proper food storage, food preparation, hazards to be aware of, how to setup a proper campsite (how far away from water should you be, determining locations etc.), campfires, respecting the wilderness, respecting fellow campers, how to watch the weather, what items to take, 10 essentials, and navigation to name a few. The list can go on and on, it's 1 am though and I need to go to bed.
Cheers, and thanks for the question.