I grew up in a small rural town in Pennsylvania which had a lot of wooded areas around it. As a child I grew up playing outside in the woods rather than laying around watching television all day. This help me appreciate the outdoor more now in my adult life than I did when I was a child. It’s easy to not stop and see how great the outdoors can be with our busy lives. Careers, family and a social life can eat up all the hours in a day. Sometimes we just need to make time to get out there, relax, destress and see what the outdoors has to offer

I would help my dad in the woods regularly cutting downed trees and hauling wood for our wood burning fireplace. It wasn’t always the best weather but it was definitely the best company. We also would hunt deer every year and most of the time we never got anything but the time with my dad and being outdoors made it worth all the numb fingers and toes every hunting season.

My advice to everyone is to get out as much as you can no matter how you do it to enjoy the outdoors. If you get a chance to take someone with you. It will definitely make it special.