Beyond OutdoorFest: NYC Community Guide

Freestone Expeditions is a boutique guide service whose mission is helping New Yorkers escape the city and discover unique and authentic outdoor experiences.  Our focus is on overnight backpacking trips that combine instruction in the traditions of Adirondack outdoorsmanship and Catskill fly fishing.

Girl Gotta Hike connects women with nature, confidence and camaraderie through guided hikes and backpacking trips in and around NYC. Founder, photographer and licensed guide, Melissa Goodwin, encourages busy city women to get away from the grind and connect with the ground, making connections along the way. She emphasizes safety and conservation on trail by sharing stories and lessons from her own long-distance backpacking and international trekking experiences.

Get Out And Trek hosts outdoor trips for LGBTQ adventurists and friends looking to escaping the ordinary and breaking free from the everyday. Join GOAT for a summer of adventures: https://beagoat.org.

GetOutdoorJobs - was recently kicked off by Sourced Adventures Founder Kyle Davidson. After building an outdoor adventure company in NYC, he wanted to make it easy for other people to follow their passions, and find a career in the outdoor space.

Outerthere is a community of open-minded, ready-to-go, local city kids who are all about that #adventure life, but maybe want to see someone else try it first before you do it, and if you do try it, you'd prefer trying it with friends. 

Cultured Forest started with the intent to aid our clients in finding balance and well-being by promoting awe inspiring experiences in Art and Nature.  We believe in creating environments and opportunities for growth. 

 We do this by encouraging our clients to find healing opportunities whether it be through the appreciation of a beautiful work of art, a traveling adventure or Forest Bathing. Forest Bathing involves the art of taking in the forest atmosphere through mindfulness exercises that improve productivity, creativity and health.  We believe an enriched life of cultural and outdoor experiences leads to empowered individuals and communities.

The Movement Creative is NYC's most trusted name in Parkour. Learn about Parkour's Philosophy through overcoming challenges as a team. Their core philosophy is to ditch traditional gym workouts and embrace the outdoors to reclaim both your city and your body. Our classes blend movement and play with the .skills and ethos of parkour.

The Gowanus Dredgers promotes waterfront stewardship and is raising awareness of sewer overflow issues that affect our Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY. Activities are conducted on the canal and shoreline, with occasional voyages to neighboring waterfront communities of Red Hook, Sunset Park and Brooklyn Heights.

Skudin Surf brings the sport of surfing to people of all ages and abilities in a fun, positive and safe environment. The company offers a range of private instruction, group lessons, camps, corporate events, and birthday parties for adults and children in the seaside town of Long Beach, Atlantic Beach, Lido-Nickerson Beach, and Rockaway Beach 67th Street. The previous nine summers were a demonstrable success; thousands of surfers traveled to us from the tri-state area to participate.

Riverkeeper began as the Hudson River Fisherman's Association and, over 50 years later, they are New York’s clean water advocate, having helped set worldwide standards for waterway and watershed protection and serving as the model for more than 300 Keeper programs around the globe.

MKC strives to provide a fun 'outside' environment in the middle of the city. We form educated paddlers so they are capable to explore the busy waterways of New York City, enjoy the sites and get away without being far away. Accessible, adventurous, fitness oriented, outdoor fun for all!

Upstate Adventure Guides LLC was founded by Will Soter & Alex Marra two friends with a shared passion for the outdoors and decades of combined experience. Both Soter & Marra are NYS DEC licensed guides. Additionally, they serve as Trails Chairs for the NY/NJ Trail Conference in the Southern Catskills, overseeing the maintenance of roughly 120 mi. of trail.

Hudson River Park Estuary Lab hosts free and low-cost environmental education programs for school groups, summer camps and the general public, using the Hudson River waterfront as its classroom.

The Cliffs Climbing + Fitness is a leading indoor rock climbing and fitness company. The Cliffs operates three facilities including New York City’s largest indoor rock climbing gym located in Long Island City as well as its original location in Valhalla, New York and a new outdoor bouldering gym in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The Cliffs prides itself on delivering a premium indoor rock climbing experience for all ages and abilities.

KEITH MICHAEL is a self-styled urban naturalist, avid birder, photographer, and a dedicated explorer of New York City's five boroughs. Watching birds drives his focus, but the breadth of NYC history, and the wealth of vistas, trees, wildflowers, grasses, mushrooms, butterflies, dragonflies, as well as scaled, slithery and furred fauna that can be observed within the city is truly remarkable. Mr. Michael has published four books of writing and photographs: Let’s Go Out!: A Birder's Year in the West Village (2015); Take Me to the River (2014); Once Around the Block (2013), and 1000 Days: World Trade Center Rising (2013);leads New York City WILD! nature walking tours, co-leads Hudson River Park WILD! walks, and is a monthly contributor to WestView News: The Voice of the West Village.

OutdoorFest: Six Years of Maximum Fun in NYC

May 18, 2020,

As many of you have surmised from the unusual quiet of the OutdoorFest social media channels and the lack of our most popular annual email “The Schedule is Live”, OutdoorFest is not happening this summer.

In early March, when New York City began shutting down, I still had hopes for early June, then mid-August, perhaps late September? Yet, the reality of this current crisis and the state of our city means that convening hundreds of people isn't something I can reasonably plan for in 2020.

So, what now? Do I pivot to running online OutdoorFest conferences? I started meditating and journaling daily. OutdoorFest has been such a joy to create and produce every year. It’s been the source of so many great friendships and partnerships. How could the fest stop?

And then I remembered, the Principle of Maximum Fun (PMF). If you’ve ever been to an OutdoorFest event or spoken to me about event experience design, you know I take PMF seriously. I learned it years before I started OutdoorFest and think it’s essential to creating events that people return to year after year after year (let’s just pretend there are six “years” in there).

PMF: Maximize the amount of fun (enjoyment, fulfillment etc.) that participants get from an experience. Seems obvious right? But in a city where time is limited and there are 1000 other things competing for your attention, making sure everyone’s really enjoying the time they’re spending with OutdoorFest (and our amazing partners!) was crucial.

As a visual learner, I like to think of it like a plot diagram, where we have exposition, rising action, climax and then denouement. There is no falling action, we stop the programming when everyone is having maximum fun. Is there more fun to be had? Probably! But there tends to be diminishing returns. After a night of trail running, dancing and campfires, y’all are tired and we, the organizers, are tired too! Instead of spending another day of hiking, slacklining etc., when we’re all not at 100%, we send you home. And hopefully, it wasn’t enough, hopefully you wanted more. You had maximum fun.

All of the events during OutdoorFest also drive this home - yes, there’s mountain biking and kayaking after work or on a Saturday morning, but it’s designed to be a teaser for even more adventure in the future. We wanted you to leave OutdoorFest wanting more and hopefully having gained the skills and resources to find more be it locally or off on a faraway adventure.

And so, after 6 stupendous years of traipsing around New York City, discovering nooks and crannies and green spaces I never knew existed. It’s time for the denouement, the goodbye to OutdoorFest. We had maximum fun.

My final words are thank you. To each of our partners, our cheerleaders, our participants. Together we co-created something truly amazing and I’m so so grateful.

-Sarah Knapp, OutdoorFest Founder & Director

🙋‍♀️ Keep in touch with me

Try me on email: knapp.sarah.l@gmail.com

I’m also on Instagram and LinkedIn.

👥 Keep up with the community

Mappy Hour, OutdoorFest’s younger sibling, continues to operate virtually with the support of sponsors like The North Face (oh yah, shouting out our sponsors, the backbone of our small business!). Mappy Hour has the same underlying goals of OutdoorFest: to change the definition of an “outdoorsy” person or an “outdoorsy” place. To show that the outdoors are for all and that we can live in the city and love the outdoors.

You can join for free at MappyHour.org and follow on social via the Instagram and Facebook pages.

We’re also launching this new thing called “Lists” which will highlight our community partners so you can continue to find amazing resources locally. Here’s our first one - it highlights non-profits in the outdoors world of NYC.

🎉 Celebrate 6 Years of Fun

We’re going to create a virtual scrapbook of sorts and we want to feature YOU! If you had Maximum Fun, share your favorite memory, photo, or story from OutdoorFest on Instagram with the hashtag #OutdoorFest so we go out with a bang. Blue shirts encouraged :)

P.S. we plan to have a party once IRL gatherings recommence

Jay Lemos: Running The Broken Arrow Skyrace in Squaw

What happens when you win the Salomon New York Trail Run Series? You get a ticket to Squaw and an opportunity to compete in the famed Broken Arrow Skyrace. Jay Lemos was the male winner in 2018, meaning that this summer, he went to the Skyrace alongside Kehr Davis. We spoke to Jay to find out how it went:

OF: What were your expectations going in?

JL: I honestly didn’t know what to expect. I hadn’t really read up on the course or anything the way I should have. It seemed comparable to Breakneck, one of the ones in the Salomon Series so I was like, “okay it shouldn’t be too terrible.”

There was the whole altitude thing and running in snow though…

OF: How did the race go?

JL: It went really well. When I first got there, I went for a shake out run. We ran from the Salomon house to where the race was taking place. I was fine while it was flat but as soon as we started climbing, I was huffing and puffing. Oh man! I had only been at altitude once before in Colorado and it was a hike. This was actual running and I felt it. 

My little bit of expectations went down the tube. I just thought “okay this is going to be a sufferfest. I don’t know whats going to happen but it’s going to be epic.”

“I just thought “okay this is going to be a sufferfest. I don’t know whats going to happen but it’s going to be epic.””

Afterwards, I stretched a little bit  and drank some beers that night . I figured that since the race is probably going to be terrible anyway, might as well have fun.

On Saturday, we warmed up a little at the resort. The race went off and I was jogging the first climb with everyone else. It went really well, I wasn’t breathing heavily the way I was the day before. The adrenaline helped all that. 

The climbing was a little rough, I was starting a little burnt out from a really busy spring. I went a little nuts this spring and was racing everything under the sun. By the time Broken Arrow came around, my legs were a little too seasoned for that early on in the summer. It made climbing a little difficult, but the flats and descents went great. Downhill is my specialty, especially in the snow. Some people were being really cautious in the snow. I just went faster. 

OF: Did you fall? 

JL: I wouldn’t say I fell; I was glissading. That ice burns so I tried to stay upright as much as possible. It was like skiing without skis.

OF: What was the course like?

JL: It’s a two-loop course. After huffing and puffing a few days prior the race, I went into it thinking I would finish in 7 - 7. 5 hours. I finished the first loop in around 2:45 which I thought was way too fast and probably ruined the second loop. I guessed 3:45 for the second loop. I did the second loop in 3:11, which wasn’t far off. 

I never look at my watch when I’m in a race. When I’m in it, I know I’m doing what I can. I feel like looking at my watch is like poison, you just stress out and lose focus on running. I finally looked at my watch at the last aid station and saw that I had 24 minutes to break 6 hours and I thought: let’s see what happens. I managed to sneak in at 5:56.

OF: What was the non running part of the experience like?

JL: It was just a cool running festival with vendors and music. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky so it was also really hot.

OF: Did you stay out in the area beyond the race

JL: On Sunday,  I ended up working the really high up aid station with Salomon. We were up there giving out water. We hiked up in winter clothing because that’s what everyone said to do because the day before it was cold. But it was actually really hot, we were all just cooking.

OF: Would you go back to this race?

JL: I definitely want to go back to it sometime and do all three distances. I think I’d just have fun with it and not focus on time goals.

OF: What’s your favorite piece of ultra running gear?

JL: I don’t like to run with much stuff. I like to go light. If I wear a belt, it’s usually the Salomon Mod belt, which just fits a couple of amino acid pills in the front and a soft flask in the back. That’s my favorite thing to run with because you don’t feel it,. During a 100 or a really long run at home if I wont be near water for a long period of time, I’ll wear a pack. My go-to is usually the Adv Skin 5 Set.


OF: What’s your favorite place to run locally?

JL: I love Beacon Mountain and Hudson Highlands. You get so much vert in a little distance.

Hunter Mountain: Fire Tower Views and Delicious Brews

A few months ago, we heard about a new brewery hidden deeply in the Catskill Mountains. It seemed like a spot begging to be visited after a sweaty hike. After some basic map reading (NYNJTC Catskills Map 41), it looked like there was a parking lot just down the road from the brewery that connected to Hunter Mountain Fire Tower which at 4,040 feet, sounds like the perfect mix of a workout and some views.

PT 1: Hiking to Hunter Mountain Fire Tower

Park at the Hunter Mountain trailhead on Spruceton Road. The trailhead connects to the blue blazed Spruceton trail which is a straight (2,000 foot) shot up to the fire tower. After 2,000 feet of hiking up, you’ll reach the fire tower where you’ll enjoy incredible views of the surrounding region.

If you’re looking to extend your trip, the John Robb Lean-to is off a short spur trail on the way up. There are actually bunkbeds in the cabin next to the fire tower but they’re only available for local volunteers.

Here’s the truth: this is really not the best route up to the fire tower. The path is gravel and double track and there are other actual trail options you can take to get to the top. However, the parking is conveniently close to the brewery (scroll down for more).

Other options to get up to the Hunter Mountain Fire Tower include:

• For a short and steep option, take the 4.7 Mile Beckman Trail

• To make it easier, take the lift up to the top (3,200 feet) of Hunter Mountain Ski Resort ($14). From there, take the Colonel's Chair Trail 2 miles to the fire tower.

• Another option is to create a loop with the Devil’s Path.

PT 2: Relaxing at Westkill Brewery

After our decent, we hopped into the car to check out Westkill Brewery, the inspiration for today’s hike choice. It’s a small brewery perched at the top of a hill just a minute off Spruceton Road. They really lean into their outdoorsy location, with antlers on the taps and maps galore.

We tried a Belgian Dubbel and their famous Kaaterskill IPA - both were delicious. The folks from Kingston Bread Lab were also on-site slinging fresh pizza’s so that didn’t hurt the vibe either. You can check out if they’ll have guest food purveyors on their instagram.

After leaving the brewery, we made one last stop at Newton Farm to pick up a few veggies before heading home.

Have you been to the fire tower or the Westkill Brewery? Let us know in the comments!

Backcountry Cinnamon Rolls: A NOLS Recipe

This summer, we’re teaming up with NOLS to bring expert instruction to New York City. At our 2019 campout, they brought not only their expertise but stoves and ingredients to cook up a storm! Last month, we published a delicious recipe for backcountry pizza. Today, we offer the NOLS Cinnamon Rolls recipe’s they shared at the campout.

How to Make Cinnamon Rolls in the Backcountry:

Ingredients:

For the base:

• 1 tbs yeast

• 1 ½ cups lukewarm water

• 2 tbs sugar

• 2 tsp salt

• 2 tbs margarine or oil

• 3 to 3 ½ cups flour
  

For the filing:

• 4 tbs margarine

• ½ to 1 cup brown sugar

• 1 tbs cinnamon

Recipe for backcountry cinnamon rolls:

1. Dissolve yeast in lukewarm water with sugar and salt. Cover and let sit for about 5 minutes in a warm spot until it froths. 

2. Add half the flour and beat vigorously 2 to 3 minutes to develop gluten; the wet batter will smooth out and start to get a little stringy. Add margarine and remaining flour to get a thick dough. 

3. Roll out the dough into a large rectangle ½ inch thick. 

4. Mix Margarine, brown sugar, and cinnamon until creamy. 

5. Spread on the dough. 

6. Roll up jelly-roll style, pinching dough closed so the sugar doesn’t fall out. 

7. Using dental floss, or regular knife, cut roll into 1 inch slices and place in a pan. 

8. Cover and bake, using a twiggy fire for 25-35 minutes until done. 

9. You can pinch the undersides of rolls together before putting them into the pan to prevent hot sugar from leaking out and scorching, but with good baking techniques that leakage can form a delicious glaze. 

Header photo by Josh Laskin

The Appalachian Mountain Club Honors OutdoorFest Founder Sarah Knapp with Outdoor Catalyst Award

Exciting news to share from the outdoor world! The Appalachian Mountain Club - the nation’s oldest outdoor group is awarding OutdoorFest founder Sarah Knapp their Outdoor Catalyst Award on September 19. The award is part of their annual conservation programs fundraiser, which this year will highlight the intersection of conservation, climate, and community. The keynote speaker for the night is Daniel A. Zarrilli, PE, the Chief Climate Policy Advisor & OneNYC Director at the NYC Office of the Mayor.

The night will be fun, educational and best of all, support the AMC’s year round conservation work. Tickets can be purchased here.

Details:

Thu, September 19, 2019 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT

Location

The Loeb Boathouse, East 72nd Street, New York, NY 10021

Official invite:

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NOLS Presents: Backcountry Pizza, a recipe

At the outdoorFest Campout this year, we were lucky enough to have NOLS on-site teaching us how to cook in the backcountry. As New Yorkers, it’s hard to go even one night without our favorite food: pizza. Luckily, NOLS brought their cast iron pans, jet boil stoves and delicious Backcountry Pizza recipe. While it’s not exactly the same as a Grimaldis slice, it’s fairly easy and definitely delicious, so follow-along and get ready to enjoy the ultimate New York City food in the woods. (We also made a video - scroll to the bottom to watch).

Backcountry Pizza by NOLS

Suggested servings: 1-2

Yeast Crust:

• 1 tsp. Dry yeast

• ½ cup lukewarm water 

• ½ tsp. Sugar

• ¼ tsp salt

• 1 cup flour

Sauce:

• Dried tomato powder

• Dried onion

• Salt

• Pepper

• Sugar
  
  
  
  
  

Possible toppings:

• Summer sausage

• Cheese thinly sliced or crumbled
  

Recipe:

1. Dissolve yeast in warm water with sugar and salt. Cover and let sit until it froths.

2. Add flour and mix to make a stiff dough. 

3. Use something round to roll out a circular piece of dough about half an inch thick. 

4. Oil your fry pan

5. Place dough in the pan, cook until the bottom is a golden brown. 

6. Flip dough over, spread sauce, cheese and other toppings over the dough.

7. Cover and cook until cheese melts. To steam the top to make the cheese melt faster, splash a little water (no more than 2 tbs at a time) and cover. 

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NOLS is a nonprofit global wilderness school that seeks to help you step forward boldly as a leader.

We believe that anyone can be a leader; it’s our role to provide the environment and training to help you discover your full potential. We do that in classrooms close to home and in remote wilderness areas around the world.

We’re an organization with heart, expertise, and wildness, and these qualities help us support powerful, authentic experiences.

Join this Outdoorsy Retreat in Harriman State Park

This article was originally published on offMetro.com/ny

Harriman State Park is arguably New York City’s backyard being just an hour away and offering over 47,527 acres of state land to explore by foot, boat or bike.

Until recently, overnight stays at Harriman were limited to open air lean-tos or backpacking to a backcountry campsite. That changed in 2016 when the Appalachian Mountain Club debuted their brand new Corman Harriman Outdoor Center a $1 million project that renovated unused shelters and structures into a beautiful new lodge with cabins and bunkhouses.

This July, the Appalachian Mountain Club is reserving the entire center for a weekend long retreat for “Young Members” along the eastern sea-board.  The weekend offers everything from reading next to the lake to strenuous day hikes to learning how to canoe. And while our experiences with the AMC Young Members has mostly included 20 and 30 somethings, the club officially states that Young Members include anyone who’s “young at heart”.

And though we’re sure the AMC would appreciate it, you do not need to be an official member to join in for the weekend.

The Backdrop:

Harriman State Park is the second largest state park offering adventurers everything from trails to lakes to rocks for hiking, canoeing and climbing. What’s amazing about this park is it’s southern trailheads are within an hour of New York City, but once you arrive, you have acres of wilderness surrounding you. The hiking trails are the real gem of the park, with hundreds of miles to explore including the original section of the Appalachian Trail. These trails are built and maintained by the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference so we recommend snagging one of their Harriman Bear Mountain Map Sets before you go. If you’re lucky enough to be exploring their in the summer, make sure to keep your eyes peeled for blueberries.

The Schedule: 

Your ticket includes everything you need to adventure from gear to instruction. There are miles of trails in your “backyard” and guided hikes and trail maintenance workshops. The outdoors center is located on a 44-acre lake and attendees can use any of the kayaks and canoes throughout the weekend for free. Or take a more relaxing approach to your weekend with sunrise yoga or just sitting on the dock enjoying the sunshine. Music, food, and bonfires are also included.

The Accommodations: 

It’s a choose your own adventure of accommodations at the retreat from the beautiful new lodge that includes common areas with couches to tent sites. There’s an option for any New Yorker – even those of us who don’t stock outdoor gear in our closets.
Note that the rooms in the lodges are shared, so be prepared to make a few new best friends.

The Appalachian Mountain Club

And if we haven’t convinced you by now, there’s one more detail that’s important to mention. This event is produced by and raises money for the Appalachian Mountain Club. The AMC is a non-profit organization key to maintaining trails and providing low cost outdoor recreation opportunities to people of all ages and skill levels. Even if you can’t make the July retreat, there are events every weekend with great carpool options, instruction and more.

How to get to Harriman from NYC 

Hop on the Metro-North to Tuxedo and then take the AMC shuttle ($5.00) to the Harriman Outdoor Center. It’s that easy. Tickets start at $65 for a Saturday day pass, and go up to $160 for the weekend (staying in a cabin).

OutdoorFest 2019, An Illustrated Recap

Another amazing year of OutdoorFest has come and gone. This year, a cadre of illustrators, led by New Yorker cartoonist and bestselling author Bob Eckstein, attended events and drew their experiences.

The OutdoorFest VIP Party

May 29, Presented by Columbia Sportswear

Illustrated by Bob Eckstein

The festival kicked off at Columbia Sportswear with a party for all of the amazing partners and experience providers that make OutdoorFest happen.

Hiking the Long Path

Sunday June 2nd with Upstate Adventure Guides

Illustrated by Bob Eckstein

Along with the campout, the first weekend of OutdoorFest also included the 6th year running of a hike on the Long Path - a trail that starts in NYC and heads all the way upstate!

Columbia Basecamp Series: Outdoor Survival Skills for Urban Dwellers

June 3, led by Brad Winer from Destination Backcountry Adventures

Illustrated by Madison Free

Along with adventures, our speaker series at Columbia provided free daily talks including this one led by Brad on surviving in the wilderness…and in NYC.

Paddling the East River

June 3, with the Red Hook Boaters

Illustrated by Grace Moore

Strong winds and choppy waters were paired with sunny skies and enthusiastic paddlers at this year’s paddling adventure with Red Hook Boaters.

Hudson River Park Estuary Lab: Shoreline Cleanup

June 5, led by Hudson River Park as a kick off to their Parks over Plastic campaign

Illustrated by Rachael Lee

The Hudson River Park Estuary Lab led a two-part night, starting with a cleanup of the park and followed by a panel talking about dealing with plastic pollution.

The rest of the week was filled to the brim with events, though none depicted with such colors as these! Find the photos on our Facebook page.

OutdoorFest Kicks Into High Gear in NYC on June 1

May 7, 2019 - New York, New York — New York City will celebrate the unofficial start of summer on June 1 with OutdoorFest NYC, the 10-day outdoor extravaganza that gives city dwellers plenty of reasons to get outside. Now in its 6th year running, OutdoorFest has fine-tuned the art of enticing New Yorkers to experience the outdoors and partners with local guides, nonprofits and businesses across the five boroughs to create an itinerary unlike any other. The festival releases its full schedule of events today.

The fun begins on June 1st with an overnight Campout on Staten Island. For the second year in a row, Salomon will bring epic amounts of trail running to the festival with a 6-hour Ultra Run for the truly intrepid, in addition to bringing back the popular 5K Headlamp Trail Race for another year. Campout attendees can also unwind with yoga, slacklining, and campfire stories, or disconnect from the city by peering into a telescope at the night sky. Of course, all can be enjoyed with a cold Sierra Nevada beer in hand while the evening’s entertainment, Bridges & Tunnels, kicks up a dance party.

“We’re thrilled to host OutdoorFest NYC for the sixth year in a row,” says OutdoorFest NYC Founder, Sarah Knapp. “This city is home to a vibrant community of outdoor enthusiasts and I’m glad our event can help bring more people into the fold.”

For the third year in a row, Columbia Sportswear in the Meatpacking District will act as OutdoorFest’s Basecamp. Starting on June 3rd, Columbia Sportswear will host a Speaker Series in which local outdoor experts will discuss the micro-adventures of New York, hear stories from those that have lived the nomadic lifestyle and learn invaluable survival skills. Beyond Manhattan, Red Hook Boaters will guide a group of kayakers around Governors Island; NYC WILD! will lead an evening exploration on Plumb Beach for horseshoe crabs; the Gowanus Dredgers will host a canoe paddle on the Gowanus Canal; the LES Ecology Center will teach urbanites to cast a line in the East River; and Skudin Surf will have attendees riding the waves on Rockaway Beach. Other events include hiking in Manhattan, bouldering in Brooklyn, and much, much more!

Visit www.outdoorfest.com/schedule for more details.

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