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Segment 2, April 20th, 2024
POSTPONED HIKE UNTIL 4/28/2024 DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER.
Taking a walk or a hike where you live is what the Urban Hike is all about. Urban Hike co-founder, Drew Thrasher, joins the Carolina Outdoors for a conversation about seeing where you live from a different perspective The perspective of a hike. Continue reading Urban Hike Movement of 2024 with Drew Thrasher
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Segment 2, March 9th 2024
ENCORE CONVERSATION
The SouthPark area is known as the second largest business district in Charlotte behind Uptown. At the turn of the century if was part of a 3,000-acre farm owned by former North Carolina governor Cameron Morrison. Since then it has become a shopping and entertainment destination, office & residential area & the home of the SouthPark Mall It is also the home to our Carolina Outdoor sponsor, The local outdoor outfitter, where the outdoors is always in fashion, Jesse Brown’s. Continue reading Walk the Loop with Drew Thrasher ENCORE CONVERSATION
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Segment 3, 2024
The SouthPark area is known as the second largest business district in Charlotte behind Uptown. At the turn of the century if was part of a 3,000-acre farm owned by former North Carolina governor Cameron Morrison. Since then it has become a shopping and entertainment destination, office & residential area & the home of the SouthPark Mall It is also the home to our Carolina Outdoor sponsor, The local outdoor outfitter, where the outdoors is always in fashion, Jesse Brown’s. Continue reading Walk in the Park in the SouthPark Community with Drew Thrasher
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Segment 1, October 21st, 2023
Host Bill Bartee introduces you to this week’s show. He and the team operate at the Brick and Mortar of Jesse Brown’s in Charlotte, NC & online.
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Segment 3, October 21st, 2023
Trails are important to a community in a tons of different ways. They provide a connection to nature & landscapes, they help protect green spaces & animals, they provide a place for exercise, & they provide access to places of history & heritage that we may not otherwise have.
Charlotte’s trail system is expanding & here host Bill Bartee speaks with Drew Thrasher, board member of SPAN & founder of Charlotte’s Urban Hike.
Here you’ll learn more about:
NC”s Year of the Trail in 2023, so with the state promoting the thousands of miles of trails in the state.
The Ongoing Networking & Connection of Trails in the SouthPark area of Charlotte.
What the trail systems of The Loop, the X-Clt Trail, the Carolina Thread Trail,& the Backlot Trail have in common.
The 1024 Ribbon Cutting Celebrating a 0.3 mile section of the Backlot Trail coming up.
Why is such a short section so important?
What’s allowed? Bikes, Walk, Electric?
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Segment 4, October 21st, 2023
Thanks to Drew Thrasher of SPAN for joining the program & letting us know about the 10/24 Backlot Trail Ribbon Cutting at 11:45.
Thanks to Sam Johnson of Wild Bearings Outdoors for coming on and letting us know some of the best fall fly fishing places in western North Carolina.
Remember make the Carolina Outdoors better than you found it…& pick up your trash.