First Article Assignment - Benefits of Hiking Review

James Warner: The Benefits of Hiking

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This article examines the positive factors of hiking. The author of the article spends a few times a week on a trail and explains how simplistically it can change your life.

James Warner goes hiking twice a week locally and makes destination trip for hiking every so often. He explains that when a person is on a hiking trail they can leave everything that has to do with work, school, friends, complications, and thoughts behind. James talks about how things seem clearer on the trail and it is easier to make decisions. He also talks about how hiking can change you emotionally, spiritually, and physically. Another thing James talks about in the article is that when you are around nature you can appreciate it more. Lastly, he talks about how hiking can mend relationships. It is something that can be enjoyable to do with family and friends. Overall this article is very positive and shows that hiking is something that should be incorporated in everyday life for everyone.

All of this information stood out to me because I enjoy taking nature walks to forget about the rest of the world with homework and jobs, along with using them as a time to exercise and clear the mind. I spend a lot of time each week inside and outside of school exercising. It is really important to me to get that amount of exercise. During the article I was thinking about autumn and how it is coming so fast. I think autumn is the best season to hike in because everything looks so nature enriched with all the colors changing. I learned from this that I should be taking more walks as this school year starts up. It will give me time to clear my mind and appreciate the seasons and the nature around me, along with make decisions with a clear mind. My behavior is about to change because I have taken a different look on hiking through James Warner’s eyes and it has shown me that there is more to taking some time to take a walk on a trail or a mountain. I am going to go for a walk through the woods after school today because I am looking forward to the experience that was described in this article.

Jenny Dilar 

                                  Terror at 13,000 feet: skydiving mishap nearly kills 80-year-old                                                            By:Yukio Strachan

I chose to do do my article assignment on an 80 year old women that alomost lost her life when going parachuting on her birthday. This articlee was publisheed on May.24,2012 and since then has already racked up 451,000 views.

What happened on the day of this event was that it was this girl named Laverne Everette on her 80th birthday went skydiving in Acampo, California and it will proabably be the last time she ever leaves the ground. Everything was going fine until thee last second when shee was about to jump out she relizes that shee is not fully straped in and refuzes to jump but was forced/pushed out and falling at the speeds of around 125mph with a non working parachute.

This article affecteed me beeacusee i know that if it was mee up their free falling and I made it down I would neever leeavee thee ground again.Something that I learned about this is that wheen thee day comes that I want to go sky diving im going to make suree that I am fully straped in.

I didn't know that about ice fishing

Why you should stay off the bottom when ice fishing- Gord Pyzer

My rating: ***

So, it’s my first blog post on here and I couldn’t find any articles in the Outdoor Canada magazine about horseback riding, I thought I would write about ice fishing.

The article I chose is about mistakes people make about ice fishing. Some of these mistakes include putting the lure too close to the bottom of the lake and putting the bait right in front of the fish. Instead of putting your lure at the bottom, put it at least 18 inches off the bottom, but not directly at the bottom. Also, tease the fish a bit with the lure. If you make it too easy for the fish, then they’ll recognize that it’s a trap (fish are smarter than you think they are). If you follow these tips when ice fishing, you will get twice as many fish.

I chose this article because I wasn’t sure if we could write about horseback riding or not, and I noticed that Outdoor Canada had ice fishing. I thought that I could write about that because it was a little different. I learned that fish don’t necessarily hit the bottom of the lake during winter. Next time I go ice fishing, I will keep that in the back of my mind

to see what I'm talking about, read
http://outdoorcanada.ca/17609/fishing/ice-fishing/why-you-should-stay-off-the-bottom-when-ice-fishing