 Hootenanny Fundraiser This Sunday Out Our Front Door is hosting our first in-person fundraiser in over two years! This time at one of the best spots in Chicago, The Hideout (1354 W. Wabansia). Come out and help us celebrate the coming bike camping season. All ticket and raffle proceeds go to supporting OOFD’s mission of immersing and educating in local history and nature via bike adventures.
The Party With the entry fee, you get:
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 Out Our Front Door is hosting our first in-person fundraiser in two years! Come out and help us celebrate the coming bike camping season. Tickets include live music, a drink special and all-you can eat chili mac (with veggie and vegan options). Early bird tickets are $30 and $35 at the door (tickets here). We’ll be raffling some sweet prizes as well. All ticket and raffle proceeds go to supporting OOFD’s mission of immersing and educating in local history and nature via bike adventures.
The Party With the entry fee, you get:
The Raffle During the event, we will have raffle prizes from super generous businesses around the city many of which are our beloved local bike shops who always show up huge for OOFD and our mission. Raffle Prizes will include
The Real Deep Why Yes. It is to party with excellent people and kick off the season in fine fashion. But the real deep why is to support the OOFD mission to lead bike adventures to immerse and educate in local nature and history. The proceeds of the event will go towards us going our programming including our Youth and Adaptive Programs this year and into the future which will help us become an even more excellent local bike camping non-profit here in very own City in a Garden, Chicago. We can’t wait to see y'all there! Tickets available in advance here.  Welcome to the 2022 Ride Release The 2022 rides are live! Check them out and sign up here.
We plan to sell out most or all rides this year, so it's definitely best to sign up sooner than later. As of March 11, we have already sold 26 slots. This year is gonna be something special. We are rolling with the usual line up of rides with a few exciting additions. We are launching the SWMI ride which will be a 5 day tour from Chicago up into South West Michigan, and we'll be doing a trip to Reinberg in Palatine in the summer as well as the winter. Looking for classic routes out of Chicago with maps, stats, details and more? Look no further! Here are three of our most popular routes:
> ILLINOIS BEACH STATE PARK > TO THE DUNES > STARVED ROCK STATE PARK> NORTH LOOP RIDE  "The core function of any trial is to connect. The root of that word, from the latin Connectere, means to 'bind together or to unite." Robert Moor in On Trails book Welcome backWelcome to OOFD 2021! Goodness, we cannot wait to open that collective front door and start bike camping again with y’all. We patched together a ragtag year last year going from over 300 participants in 2019 to 62 in 2020. But not complaining at all. We had a lot of time to reflect and work on big, next level ideas. Two major things happened in 2020 for OOFD.
 Welcome Welcome to OOFD 2021. Our 5th year just ended on Oct. 31, and we wrapped up our yearly board retreat which usually happens at a cabin at a Cook County Forest Preserve. This year we rocked the retreat online with some safe bonfiring and bike riding mixed in. If you didn’t know, the OOFD board is really something special, and if you haven’t connected with one of us, please do here.
Part of the amazingness of this 2020 board is that we came up with a 5 year plan. We are very enthused with what we have pulled off thus far including bringing over 300 folks bike camping in 2019.
Relaunch 2020We are feeling encouraged. Cautious but encouraged. I mean, the lakefront is opening up to “Keep It Moving,” which is what we want to do!
So we have adjusted our schedule and are going to do our best to roll with what we can while being safe. If it turns out that we have to cut rides and refund tickets, so be it. If we can safely expand rides for more riders, we’ll do that too. But for now, we are opening up what we can. And the first ride will be to Shabonna on June 27-28. We are rolling with 10 or less riders, many of which will be OOFD crew. We will be testing out our social distancing and general COVID-19 safety precautions (mainly social distancing and no communal meals). If you would like to snag a spot, you can REGISTER HERE. We are running this first ride at a major discount, and if you do sign-up, we will expect to get some of your feedback and insight on the process, protocol, and general safety of the ride.  My poor little tent is looking dusty up on the shelf there. And it's Memorial Day Weekend. And we’ve already seen two scheduled bike camping trips (Shabonna and Milwaukee) come and go without a single night actually spent sleeping outside.
So tonight, this symbolic start to summer, dust that tent off and pitch it. In your backyard, front yard, even your living room. Campfire. S'mores. Hotdogs on sticks. Cold beer. That will be happening out back for many of us tonight. So join us, in spirit of course! And if you do, be sure to tag us with a quick pic of you making the camping happen. And with last week’s announcement that campgrounds will be opening, we are working hard to figure out the best and safest way to get bike adventuring with you all. Stay tuned as an updated schedule and new ride structure is coming soon. Keep enjoying those great outdoors and enjoy your night sleeping under that city night sky. |
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Founded in 2015. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
www.oofd.org
Founded in 2015. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
www.oofd.org