Outdoors

Dan Spaulding, botanist and curator of Collections for Anniston Museum of Natural History, will host an Earth Day hike to Almond Rock granite outcrop in Randolph Co. on April 22. The hike is part of a series of excursions to examples of the four types of outcroppings found in Alabama.

In A River Experience: Part One in last week’s Score!, Brooke Nelson detailed the adventures of her sons, Drew, 19, Cole, 16, and Graham, 10, their friends, Austin McMillan, 16, and Katie Saunders, 18, and her husband, Tom, as they experienced the Nantahala Outdoor Center’s Guest Appreciation Festival in the North Carolina mountains the last Saturday in October.

This week, the story culminates in the ultimate whitewater trip on the Nantahala River.

Take the rugged beauty of the Smoky Mountains, the raw power of the Nantahala River, hundreds of people hawking outdoor gear in a festival atmosphere, add four fearless teenagers and what do you get? Four area youths having a blast at the annual Guest Appreciation Festival (GAF) at the Nantahala Outdoor Center (NOC) in Bryson City, N.C.

On Oct. 15-16, 2005, Keith Hudson, Carol Hudson, Evelyn Stephens, Joan Alexander and Cathy Adamson, members of the Anniston Outdoor Association, participated in a trip to the Len Foote Hike Inn at Amicalola Falls State Park located near Georgia.