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Enjoy the outdoors this Winter Break. Outdoor Connection has dogsledding, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, canoeing and backpacking trips. Sign up now!
By UW-L student Breanna Levine
Adventure is out there, and UW-La Crosse’s Outdoor Connection can lead the way.
During the past six years, Outdoor Connection has offered a dogsledding, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing trip across the Boundary Waters in Minnesota. This year, they are adding two more trips to the agenda: canoeing and backpacking in Central Florida and backpacking the Black Creek Wilderness in Mississippi.
“These trips will look very similar to our Spring Break Adventure trips and include significant opportunities for students to experience outdoor recreation,” says Primary Trip Leader and Coordinator AJ Heil.
The two new trips, canoeing and backpacking in Central Florida for 10 days and backpacking the Black Creek Wilderness in Mississippi for seven days, will be just as fun and rigorous as the classic five-day excursion to the Boundary Waters, according to Heil.
The adventures also have an affordable price point. The cost of each trip ranges from $299-$499 and covers everything, from food and vehicles, to accommodations and rental rates.
Each trip can hold a maximum of 12 participants and is open to both UW-L students and those outside of UW-L, so Heil recommends registering as soon as possible. Although registration will remain open until Wednesday, Dec. 18, the trips are already filling up and registration will close as soon as the 12-person limit is reached.
Interested students can sign up by visiting the UW-L Outdoor Connection in the Recreational Eagle Center during operational hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday, and noon-6 p.m. Sunday.
For more information, contact Heil at heil.anth@uwlax.edu or 608.785.8860.