Driving and camping around New Zealand was the most amazing experience of my life so far :) 10/10 would recommend!

I'm not sure if it entirely counts as "outdoors" but a lot of it was spent hiking and exploring... I went on a cross country (USA) RV trip two years ago. It was really a defining point in my life, and I learned a lot (not just from the travel, but about my roadmates as well) from the trip.

I recently went up to New York City for a day in early November, which was quite enjoyable and a totally new experience for me. I also revisited Gettysburg and the National Aquarium. I have a few trips planned this coming year. There's a trip to Niagara Falls that I'm really interested in. My dream vacation is to one day visit the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Park. I'd also love to travel overseas to Japan or England. I really feel the need to explore and expand my world right now.

Soo this one time. My boyfriend and I decided to hike up this really big hill. Like, big enough that it takes a few hours to get to the top. Unfortunately, we decided to do it on a pretty terrible day when it was raining. We got lost in the woods that cover the hill and found ourselves not on the main path, but weren't willing to give up. I slipped and fell at one point and dropped my phone, but didn't realize it at the time. A little while later we come to basically a vertical incline and decide nope, that's it. I also realized then that I lost my phone, so we decided to backtrack and try to find it. It was raining pretty bad by then and there were little rivers forming on the hill. At one point, my boyfriend tries to go down the hill but he starts to slip and starts running to keep from falling over. And then he runs straight into a tree trunk. I try to follow more carefully but end up running too, eventually, I slip and fall, slide 15 feet down the hill and end up on my back in one of the newly formed rivers with my head facing downhill. By this time, my boyfriend had gotten up but I couldn't. He comes to try and help me, but I'm just laughing and begging him not to fall on me.

Eventually, we get down the hill and had to skip the social event we were planning on going to because we were coated in mud. Had to ride the bus home like that too.

I've skydived and the moment I let go of the plane was the single best moment of my life, but there was also a time once with my family when I walked on a very long wooded platform/sidewalk through a jungle to reach some caves.

There's a local mountain that I absolutely love to climb.

It has multiple dirt trails that are fantastic for hiking. And when you're at the top the view is spectacular.

Just hanging out at the beach. I only live five miles from the gulf beaches.

When I was a kid I used to climb trees and explore the woods all the time. It shocks me now that I used to wander so far. When I was 7 I fell out of a tree and broke my dominant arm. Luckily it was in the neighborhood in front of a friend so I got help. xD

[@[NPC] Wesley] Now this is a thread I could easily get lost in. I love the outdoors. I have probably spent half of my life outdoors doing fun and adventurous things. I love backpacking and exploring wilderness areas. Some of the coolest things I've found are things like: Veins of quarts and feldspar that are feet thick and meters long.
Hidden waterfalls that I'm pretty sure nobody else has seen (unless they too wander far from any path). Wild animals like, bears, snakes, lizards, coyotes, foxes, bunnies,deer, raccoons, etc. Bee hives hidden in crevices of rocks.
Caves and mining shafts. Springs that look like faeries could be hidden amidst the thick carpets of moss and ferns.

Exploring is fun! I take my dog with me on most of my adventures. He has the cutest doggie booties and doggie backpacking backpack. C:

I went outside once. It was awful.

Sorry couldn't help myself....Ill see myself out :D

Hm.. haven't been doing too much outdoors lately, but Sliding rock in North Carolina is a favorite, so fun!

We went camping once a long time ago, that's the only outdoor adventure I can remember.

I went hiking in Iceland and even though I am not usually a big hiker everything there was so breathtaking that it's on my last of things to do again!

I don't have a car, and you need to be able to do that to get anywhere in this stupid country, including the great outdoors. But sometimes I walk anyway.

However, this one time while in Alsace in France, I got the idea to walk to a couple of the little villages on the wine road. I determined the direction I needed to go and just found my way to it. It was tricky when in the city because there's always a building in the way, but it was easy going when I reached the edge of the city and could travel on the dirt roads between farmers' fields. It was on the way back when I had the real adventure. I decided to go a different way, but little did I know there was only highway and no good footpaths back in that direction. I had to pull my socks up and walk through thistles on the side of the road. I came to a spot where the only way forward was over some train tracks, but there was a chain link fence on the other side of them except for one place of a drainage ditch, so I checked the ground to feel if any trains were coming, then dashed over the tracks, grabbed on to the pole holding up one end of the fence and used it to swing around to the other side. Then I came across an incline on the side of the road that was so steep I couldn't stand up straight on it, so I had to grab on to the barrier on the side of the road and brace myself against the slope and move sideways to continue. I found a sidewalk after that and popped into a cafe for some water. Bet the cashier wondered where in the world I just came from.

My favorite outdoors adventure this year would be at the Japanese Gardens in Normandale Community College. Sometime in the summer, I decided to take a break from studying and walk through the garden. It was all the usual stuff, until I reached the fence that seperates the campus from the lower wetlands beyond. There, stooping on the wire fence covered in Jack-apple vines, a llittle Green Heron. Had my eyes not distinguished it from the rest of the dark hues in the shady background before I reached the 5 ft distance between us, I might have scared it off. But there it was, the closest and clearest I have ever been to a bird of such wonder. We both stayed in place for quite a while, watching each other, probably five minutes or so; at last it moved, before I could get a picture of that perfect moment, and he... Proceeded further down the length of the fence. After that, I started chasing him around, trying to get SOMETHING to keep the memory alive. I even followed him to the tall evergreen trees on the other side of the gardens. The best pic I got was when he was sitting in a small shrub behind the links of the fence -- the Jack-Apple vines had just enough space between one segment to let my camera peek through!

I love hiking in the forest .

every time I go outside to feed my kitties who refuse to live inside is an adventure for me.

Geocaching in the Mojave Desert is my favorite thing in the world. <3

I got to hike down to the devil's bathtub and old man's cave at hocking hills. <3 It was wonderful.

We are going to Hawaii next week on vacation and I'm super excited to hike the National Volcano Park. I really enjoy going to new cities and walking around and taking in the sites especially if National Parks/Museums are involved.