Category:state park quest
>First stop on Park Quest 2011 - Outdoors Girl
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Beautiful start to my state park marathon: 24 state parks in seven days, going west to east. It’s only 65 degrees right now at Herrington Manor State Park. But humidity is hanging like damp cheesecloth over the 53-acre lake.
Some folks are out fishing early and the park manager, Lieutenant Al Preston is sprucing up the grounds around the lake house.
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>With one step into the waves, Park Quest ends
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Brisk breezes blow a week’s worth of sweat and DEET away as I step onto the beach at Assateague, the final stop in this year’s version of Park Quest 24/7.
The temperature is 75.2 degrees and the wind is blowing at 14 mph.
How do I know? The final Quest is all about the weather.
Ranger Meghan Sochowski crafted a challenge that addresses both ordinary conditions and extraordinary ones found in hurricanes and thunderstorms.
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A journey across the state - Outdoors Girl
By Candus Thomson, The Baltimore Sun
January 1, 2011
You made me cry.
Of course I made myself cry, too.
Knife wounds, insect attacks and tandoori-hot temperatures aside, my favorite story involved me and you and the outdoors. In July, during one of the hottest stretches in a summer of hot stretches, I compressed a season’s worth of state park visits into one week. Twenty four parks, seven days, from Deep Creek Lake to the Atlantic Ocean.
The stunt was to promote the Maryland Park Service’s “Park Quest” family challenge, the best idea to come out of Annapolis since the coining of the state motto: “Manly deeds, womanly words.”
