
Looking for something to this weekend? Here are your weekend recommendations for what's going on OUTSIDE in and around the Roanoke and Blacksburg areas!

Looks like we have another great weekend of weather ahead of us!
Got an idea? Send it to pete @ roanoke.org
Get OUTSIDE!
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Pete Eshelman (friend me on Facebook)
Director of Outdoor Branding
Roanoke Regional Partnership
Check out the Outdoor Calendar for upcoming events you need to keep your eye on!
On April 24 runners from England and just about all 50 states will descend upon Roanoke for the inaugural Blue Ridge Marathon. This is a great opportunity to show off Roanoke and it is going to take all of us working together to truly roll out the welcome mat.

The marathon committee is seeking individuals and/or groups to help make this event spectacular. Whether you are an individual, a church, business, civic group, scout group, club, or just a group of friends, there are plenty of opportunities to get involved. Here is a partial list of volunteer opportunities:
Drop the committee an email if are interested. This doesn’t commit you to anything (not yet at least). Be sure to include your availability on Friday afternoon/evening and Saturday.
Have you always wanted to fish like the Pro’s?
BASS has a Marshal Program where you can be paired with an Elite Tournament Pro Fisherman and watch from the rear of a pro’s boat during the April 15-18 Blue Ridge Brawl at Smith Mountain Lake. If your Pro does well you will experi-ence 3 days of learning from the best of the Elite Anglers.
Marshal Entry Fee $100
Deadline: March 16, 2010
For more pre-tournament information, Click Here>>>
ROANOKE, VA - Roanoke Parks and Recreation invites citizens to attend a public information
session to discuss the potential conservation easement on Mill Mountain Park. The first session will take place on Tuesday, March 16, and the second will take place on Thursday, March 25. Both will be held at the Mill Mountain Discovery Center from 5 to 8 p.m.
These informal information sessions are designed for citizens to learn more about the conservation easement process, ask questions, and provide comments.
For more information, please contact Donnie Underwood at (540) 853-1166.
Roanoke's Sharebike.org was recognized by the League of American Bicyclists with a Silver Level award as a Bicycle Friendly Business.
The Bicycle Friendly Business (BFB) program recognizes employers’ efforts to
encourage a more bicycle friendly atmosphere for employees and customers. The program honors innovative bike-friendly efforts and provides technical assistance and information to help companies and organizations become even better for bicyclists. This new initiative complements the League’s Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) program, which has been recognizing cities and towns for their bicycle friendliness since 2003. Roanoke has submitted its application to the BFC and is awaiting the results.
Learn more about Sharebike.org and Cyclo-ward
Fleet Feet Sports wants to THANK YOU, our customers, for SEVEN great years in the Roanoke
Valley. As a thank-you, Fleet Feet Sports is having a Customer Appreciation Weekend on Friday, March 12 and Saturday, March 13. The weekend will consist of the following:

Looking for something to this weekend? Here are your weekend recommendations for what's going on OUTSIDE in and around the Roanoke and Blacksburg areas!

Have you seen the weather forecast? With a high of 60 degrees I know many of you will be heading outside for the first time in several months.
Got an idea? Send it to pete @ roanoke.org
Get OUTSIDE!
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Pete Eshelman (friend me on Facebook)
Director of Outdoor Branding
Roanoke Regional Partnership
Check out the Outdoor Calendar for upcoming events you need to keep your eye on!
If you can’t beat the snow, you may as well enjoy it! Roanoke Outside has several pairs of tickets to Massanutten Resort to give away. All you have to do is send us a picture of yourself playing outside! Click here to learn more!
You can also ski free as part of their Heroes on the Hill day March 14. Show a military ID and ski free. Click here for details.
In 1921, the Appalachian National Scenic Trail was simply an idea. Benton MacKaye proposed the idea of the Trail as the connecting element of “a project in regional planning.” The efforts of
countless volunteers made that part of MacKaye's idea a reality. Today, the Appalachian Trail is best known as a simple footpath.
The Appalachian Trail is a 2,175-mile trail following the Appalachian Mountains from Georgia to Maine, 544 miles of which are in Virginia.
Help preserve this natural wonder buy purchasing The Appalachian Trail license plate. The Appalachian Trail license plate offers a way for you to easily support the Trail, because $15 of your $25 specialty plate fee is returned to ATC annually to support its work in Virginia. If you sign up today, by the time the snow melts, you may just have your brand new A.T. license plate in your hot little hands! It’s easy, and more importantly, it shows what you value!
The aftermath of all the snow we’ve experienced this winter will certainly amount to additional work for ATC, its A.T. clubs and volunteers, and agency partners to get the Trail back in shape. Recognizing the work ahead, we offer a great “thank you” in advance to all the volunteers who will contribute thousands of hours to benefit the A.T. in 2010. A license plate is one way to show your support for their hard work since it will help protect the Trail long into the future. Click here to learn more and purchase your plate.
We can’t either, but our local outdoor stores can. There are so many deals out there that we thought we’d share a few with you.