Ever wanted to learn how to cook in a Dutch oven over a campfire, or find your way through the woods with a compass, or navigate a river? Maybe you’re an Urbanite and never learned how to shoot a rifle or hunt, or participated in any outdoors activities at all. Many states offer weekend workshops for the outsdoorsperson in you, and the cost is low, less than $200 for workshops, two nights in a cabin and meals. For more information, check out your state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, for example, www.fw.ky.gov for Kentucky’s sessions.

What a great idea. Camping has always appealed to me as best way to be immersed in the wilderness, yet as an urbanite, I find it daunting to plan a camping trip. The answer: a course, of course!