Brilliant blue sky. Crisp fall air. Shafts of angling sunlight.

Wanda and Joe Wells like to make the State Fair an extra special event for their two boys by only going every other year.

Here are a few choice natural areas where Fall Color 2005 will be playing in the Piedmont later this month.

Ever suddenly realize you've totally neglected your gear stash? That elements vital to your outdoor survival are broken, worn out, woefully outdated or simply not cool anymore? And you find yourself asking questions like, "Hmm, I wonder what ever hap

Leslie Palmer's take on drawing was encouraging: "Ignore what you know."

If every neighborhood had a Tom Duwe, every day would be Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day.

Oct. 1 is Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day, and while the sponsoring International Mountain Biking Association says about 50 events are scheduled so far across the nation (there were more than 100 last year), none have been scheduled so far in the Triangle.

Let's start with a few numbers, courtesy of the 2004 Outdoor Industry Association Participation Study.

Discovering the DanRiver is mostly placid, but if you want rapids, just keep moving.