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1. Climb a tree.
2. Roll down a really big hill At UC Berkeley on a lawn that I think doesn't exist anymore.
3. Camp out in the wild
4. Build a den
5. Skim a stone -- you do mean skip a stone, don't you?
6. Run around in the rain
7. Fly a kite
8. Catch a fish with a net
9. Eat an apple straight from a tree
10. Play conkers -No, but we made candles out of sky lupines, and dolls out of flowers,
11. Throw some snow -- I think so. I don't remember for sure, but my experiences with snow before my 12th birthday wer few until we went to Philadelphia, where we arrived with mostly worn-out California clothes in the coldest winter in many years. I was eleven,
12. Hunt for treasure on the beach
13. Make a mud pie
14. Dam a stream
15. Go sledging - what is this? We made sleds and raced them on dry grass hills.
16. Bury someone in the sand
17. Set up a snail race - We made snail hotels instead
18. Balance on a fallen tree - Or, perhaps, climb all over it and pretend it is a spaceship?
19. Swing on a rope swing
20. Make a mud slide -- but we made dry grass slides all the time
21. Eat blackberries growing in the wild -- well, wildly growing on the roadside, anyway
22. Take a look inside a tree and make a little house in it
23. Visit an island -- Brooks Island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, where my father was a worker on an archaeological dig.
24. Feel like you’re flying in the wind
25. Make a grass trumpet -- does this mean a grass harmonica?
26. Hunt for fossils and bones
27. Watch the sun wake up
28. Climb a huge hill
29. Get behind a waterfall -- how about float down a river instead?
30. Feed a bird from your hand
31. Hunt for bugs
32. Find some frogspawn
33. Catch a butterfly in a net
34. Track wild animals -- I had a kit to track wild animals but I mostly did dogs and one or two raccoons
35. Discover what’s in a pond
36. Call an owl
37. Check out the crazy creatures in a rock pool
38. Bring up a butterfly
39. - Catch a crab
40. Go on a nature walk at night
41. Plant it, grow it, eat it
42. Go wild swimming
43. Go rafting. on inflatable rafts, on a calm river. Okay?
44. Light a fire without matches -- it was a feeble little fire. But I made pretty good chert and obsidian tools.
45. Find your way with a map and compass -- and I made maps too, showing rocks my best friend and I were finding in the wild part of neighborhood.
46. Try bouldering (rock climbing outdoors but with safety mats and short drops) -No safety mats, though, just my adult cousin Lynn.
47. Cook on a campfire
48. Try abseiling -What the hell is this?
49. Find a geocache (use GPS and other navigational aides to locate hidden containers.) - I couldn't because there was no GPS.
50. Canoe down a river -- I rafted in a river and canoed in a lake. Good enough?
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madwriter and ultimately from the National Trust which I assume is in England.
Given the fact that so many of the things are directly related to the English countryside and wilderness, I am surprised that I was able to say I did so many.
2. Roll down a really big hill At UC Berkeley on a lawn that I think doesn't exist anymore.
3. Camp out in the wild
4. Build a den
5. Skim a stone -- you do mean skip a stone, don't you?
6. Run around in the rain
7. Fly a kite
8. Catch a fish with a net
9. Eat an apple straight from a tree
10. Play conkers -No, but we made candles out of sky lupines, and dolls out of flowers,
11. Throw some snow -- I think so. I don't remember for sure, but my experiences with snow before my 12th birthday wer few until we went to Philadelphia, where we arrived with mostly worn-out California clothes in the coldest winter in many years. I was eleven,
12. Hunt for treasure on the beach
13. Make a mud pie
14. Dam a stream
15. Go sledging - what is this? We made sleds and raced them on dry grass hills.
16. Bury someone in the sand
17. Set up a snail race - We made snail hotels instead
18. Balance on a fallen tree - Or, perhaps, climb all over it and pretend it is a spaceship?
19. Swing on a rope swing
20. Make a mud slide -- but we made dry grass slides all the time
21. Eat blackberries growing in the wild -- well, wildly growing on the roadside, anyway
22. Take a look inside a tree and make a little house in it
23. Visit an island -- Brooks Island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, where my father was a worker on an archaeological dig.
24. Feel like you’re flying in the wind
25. Make a grass trumpet -- does this mean a grass harmonica?
26. Hunt for fossils and bones
27. Watch the sun wake up
28. Climb a huge hill
29. Get behind a waterfall -- how about float down a river instead?
30. Feed a bird from your hand
31. Hunt for bugs
32. Find some frogspawn
33. Catch a butterfly in a net
34. Track wild animals -- I had a kit to track wild animals but I mostly did dogs and one or two raccoons
35. Discover what’s in a pond
36. Call an owl
37. Check out the crazy creatures in a rock pool
38. Bring up a butterfly
39. - Catch a crab
40. Go on a nature walk at night
41. Plant it, grow it, eat it
42. Go wild swimming
43. Go rafting. on inflatable rafts, on a calm river. Okay?
44. Light a fire without matches -- it was a feeble little fire. But I made pretty good chert and obsidian tools.
45. Find your way with a map and compass -- and I made maps too, showing rocks my best friend and I were finding in the wild part of neighborhood.
46. Try bouldering (rock climbing outdoors but with safety mats and short drops) -No safety mats, though, just my adult cousin Lynn.
47. Cook on a campfire
48. Try abseiling -What the hell is this?
49. Find a geocache (use GPS and other navigational aides to locate hidden containers.) - I couldn't because there was no GPS.
50. Canoe down a river -- I rafted in a river and canoed in a lake. Good enough?
This is by way of personhead
madwriter and ultimately from the National Trust which I assume is in England.Given the fact that so many of the things are directly related to the English countryside and wilderness, I am surprised that I was able to say I did so many.
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Translation notes
Abseiling is that thing where you go down the side of a building or cliff with a rope and pulley. Rappelling? No, I haven't tried it.
Not sure about the grass trumpet, but probably. We certainly used to do the thing where you whistle over a flat blade of grass between your thumbs. (And usually chew the little knobby joint of the grass stem, too.)
Re: Translation notes
I assume a grass trumpet is where you put a blade of grass between your hands and blow and make a sound like a kazoo. As children, due to a shortage of suitable grass where we lived, we used privet leaves.