 Up-coming Events | Good Reads | Camping trips | + more Pictured above: Council Overhang by Dmitriy Message from Vice President: Summer! Oh Summer! Why you so good to us?!?! What an amazing 5 weeks for OOFD. We led our biggest crew yet on the 2 day, 180 mile North Loop Ride, the route that started it all. Welcomed and broke in 3 new stellar OOFD field guides. Introduced a new journey to our repertoire: Water Ways to the West: a 3 day, 185 mile roundtrip to Starved Rock along the incredibly historic I&M Canal trail. And sandwiched between these two epic rides was one of most inspiring things OOFD has pulled off to date: a Family Bike Campout to Illinois Beach State Park. 3 days, 40+ miles, 13 families, 60 people in total! We got to witness youngins camp for their first time. 5-year-olds 2 wheeling for 10 miles! Colossal communal cookouts, splashing in lake waves, nature hikes, endangered turtles, and “kids only” meetings! We have never been more inspired by the work we are doing. Sincerely, Vice President Glenn Schneider Up-Coming EventsThe Nature Sanctuary Bike Ride The Nature Sanctuary Bike Ride Saturday September 9th | Plant Chicago to Burnham Nature Sanctuary A good morning inoculation with mesic rich prairies, wild sours and ecological restoration as we bike from Plant Chicago to the Burnham Nature Sanctuary. With after ride celebrations at Plant Chicago We will join the Burnham team to restore this hidden slice of oak savanna and mesic prairie rich in native flora by bike! Some will collect, others will sow seed, all will come to know this beaufiaul 100 acre site. Full event Details below Where The Wild: Logan Square to Forest Glen Where The Wild Things Grow: Logan Square to Forest Glen Sunday September 10th | From the streets and into the woods. Come satisfy your woodland soul as we tred lightly into ecological restoration for a hands on experince that will grow for a lifetime. Featuring: The House Of OOFD, Serbians of Sunnyday Tap, The NBT Project. A Sunday morning bike ride from the Logan Square Monument to Forest Glen Woods. With bikes, ecological restoration, native plant talk, Sunnyday Tap and Drinks. Full Event Details down below... Clayton Smith Flatwoods | Into The Pin Oaks Clayton Smith Flatwoods | Into The Pin Oaks Sunday September 24th A Rise & Shine Morning Bike Ride featuring ecological restoration, native plant talk, stewardship, and Rabbits Bar. From Logan Square to the North Branch Trail's Clayton Smith Woods Preserve. If you ever wondered what Chicago nature embodies then you are cordially invited. No experience needed. Come to know these grand pin oaks & their understory via a hands on experience that literally grows for a life time. Come for the camaraderie, leave with community. Bikes & Science: Ride To Fermilab's 50th Anniversary Open House Bikes & Science: Ride To Fermilab's 50th Anniversary Open House September 23rd | Meet at Buckingham Fountain Ride along the prairie path to Fermilab in Batavia for their free open house next month. Free tours of the particle accelerator, talks with scientists, a look at their prairie restoration work, and even hang with a real life bison. The open house starts at 10 am. I registered a small group for a tour time of 12:30pm. So if interested, meet at Buckingham Fountain (where else?) At 8 and we'll hit the road by 815 or so. Option to ride the 40 miles back to Chicago afterword or take the Metra. Full event details down below... The Great Marsh: Migrations from The North The Great Marsh: Migrations from The North Two Days One Night | Saturday & Sunday September 31st through October 1st A Bike Campout from Chicago to Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Two days at the dunes w/ EVENING Train back to Chicago. The Great Marsh is the largest interdunal wetland in the Lake Michigan watershed and we are going to put you in the heart of it. We will learn about Bird Migration, the struggle and birth of a National Park, and of course hike the dunes. Day Two is full of Exploration of the Park by foot and Day 1 is the bike ride. In conjuction with "Bike Your Park Day" by the one and only Adventure Cycling Association. Full event Details down below... Part 2. Where The Wild Ride: Logan to Forest Glen Back from the underground to satisfy your woodland soul. Featuring: The Serbians of Sunnyday Tap, Plain and Simple Bike Rides and The House of OOFD. For Play Study & Health We return: A Bike Ride from Logan Square to the North Branch Trail's Forest Glen Woods Preserve and back. A hands on experience that lasts a lifetime. If you ever wondered what the Chicago woods inhabit then you are cordially invited to this wild ride. Come for the camaraderie and leave with community. Full event details down below... Good ReadsRe-cap: The Family Bike Campout Family Bike Campout Re-Cap The adventure began in a tight parking spot behind Third Coast Birth in Logan Square on a rainy Thursday night early August 2017 as riders and volunteers came together. "Their were so many firsts!" Many participants were camping together as a family unit for the first time. The great majority of the group were bike camping for the first time. Many kids were camping for their first time in their lives! And this is where the magic really happened: In watching these first time campers make those all so crucial connections to nature... Read the full re-cap down below Meet The Team
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Founded in 2015. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
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Founded in 2015. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
www.oofd.org