An interesting meme, from
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This is the National Trust's list of 50 Things To Do Before You're 11 3/4. I'm bold-facing the ones I've done, and not cheating by including things I did after that age (though I will post notes on a few).
1.
Climb a tree. Oh, yes. We had great climbing trees in our backyard.
2.
Roll down a really big hill There was one in the city park where we had our Camp Fire powwows.
3.
Camp out in the wild Many, many times.
4.
Build a den5.
Skim a stone 6.
Run around in the rain7.
Fly a kite - My sister taught me.
8.
Catch a fish with a net -- After catching it on a hook, yes.
9. Eat an apple straight from a tree
10. Play conkers - No, as I'd never heard of the game before this list came out.
11.
Throw some snow -- More difficult than it looks, as we lived in Southern California.
12.
Hunt for treasure on the beach13.
Make a mud pie14. Dam a stream
15. Go sledging
16. Bury someone in the sand
17. Set up a snail race - I did, however, race sowbugs.
18.
Balance on a fallen tree - Preferably over a stream.
19. Swing on a rope swing - Preferably swinging into water.
20. Make a mud slide
21.
Eat blackberries growing in the wild22.
Take a look inside a tree23.
Visit an island -- Catalina and Vancouver are two I remember.
24.
Feel like you’re flying in the wind25. Make a grass trumpet -- I'm not sure what this is.
26. Hunt for fossils and bones
27.
Watch the sun wake up -- Yes, while looking for beavers in Rocky Mountain National Park.
28.
Climb a huge hill29. Get behind a waterfall
30.
Feed a bird from your hand -- Does my sister's parakeet count?
31.
Hunt for bugs -- The aforementioned sowbugs [g].
32. Find some frogspawn
33. Catch a butterfly in a net
34.
Track wild animals - Oh, yes.
35.
Discover what’s in a pond36. Call an owl
37.
Check out the crazy creatures in a rock pool38. Bring up a butterfly
39. Catch a crab
40.
Go on a nature walk at night41.
Plant it, grow it, eat it42.
Go wild swimming -- Define wild swimming. I swam in the Pacific Ocean when I was little, so I'm going to count it.
43. Go rafting
44. Light a fire without matches
45. Find your way with a map and compass -- With a map, but not a compass.
46.
Try bouldering -- Does falling into the river and getting my mouth full of rocks at Kings Canyon National Park count? Or scrambling on the boulders at Joshua Tree National Monument (it wasn't yet a park back then)?
47.
Cook on a campfire48. Try abseiling
49. Find a geocache (use GPS and other navigational aides to locate hidden containers.) - I predate retail GPS by several decades, I'm afraid.
50. Canoe down a river
28. Not bad. I had a privileged childhood, though -- we had visited and hiked in most of the western national parks by the time I was twelve. And my father loved to garden, which affection he passed on to me.
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