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Pass Down Outdoor Traditions, Share Yours

by Outdoor Hub on November 21, 2011

Pass Down Outdoor Traditions, Share Yours

Join our Campfire Discussion this week and share your family’s and your friends’ outdoor traditions. Do you remember the first time your father or mother took you out hunting? Perhaps your family doesn’t hunt, but what about your first camping trip? First boating experience, looking through a telescope, taking a hike until you thought your legs would fall off? Is this a tradition you repeat every year on a certain date?

How has this been an important part of your life? Let’s strike up a campfire about traditions you celebrate in the outdoors. How has this affected you as you grew up and what about the impact on your family relationships? Give us your thoughts on traditions and perhaps any advice you have to those just starting a family of their own.

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  • Tom Ryle

    I’ve been taking my two young daughters into the woods with me since they were able to hold their heads upright in a backpack kid carrier.  We’ve spent countless hours hiking, scouting, shed antler hunting, and otherwise getting hands-on with nature.  They love the outdoors and learning about wildlife, stewardship, ecology, conservation, etc.  My 9 year old daughter has joined me the past two years on what is now a “traditional” daddy/daughter turkey hunt.  Here she is pictured with a 19# Washington Merriams I shot as she watched over my shoulder.  We killed our first bird together on the same day the year prior – a traditional is born!  My youngest is now throughly primed and waiting for her turn to join in on the fun!

    In today’s hectic high-tech world, I feel it is more important that ever before to share the outdoors with young people.  Less texting and more casting, hiking, shooting, and appreciating the outdoors.  These things are important and they matter.

    Tom Ryle
    FreshTRAX Outdoors

  • LLD

    A little girl in the early 60s, I couldn’t yet hunt. So, Dad and I, before the deer opener (Monday after Thanksgiving in Pa), would lay out the newspaper and I’d help him clean his guns. I was allowed push the brushes through the barrel. Dang I was special. I couldn’t wait to clean my own guns for deer season.