Friday, January 9, 2009

OutdoorsVT 1-9-09

A national celebration aimed at getting people out onto the trails on snowshoes and cross-country skis.

The 14th-annual Winter Trails offers people a chance to try snowshoeing and cross-country skiing at more than 100 locations across the United States and Canada for free.

Cross-country skiing and snowshoeing are among the fastest growing winter sports. There were 1.4 million snowshoers, a number that has increased 60 percent in the last decade. Cross-country skiers number 2.4 million participants, which is a 21.6 percent increase since 2003-04.

Read more about Winter Trails in my column here.

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