{"id":112334,"date":"2025-07-22T11:59:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T15:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=112334"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:08:13","slug":"lifelong-adventure-blue-ridge-at-wildacres","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/lifelong-adventure-blue-ridge-at-wildacres\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifelong Adventure: Blue Ridge at Wildacres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy the last days of summer at Wildacres Retreat Center, on its own heavily wooded mountain peak just off the Blue Ridge Parkway near Little Switzerland. We will explore nearby trails for wildflowers, mushrooms, salamanders, birds and other wildlife.\u00a0 Evenings will be spent moon and star watching, salamander hunting and moth trapping.\u00a0 Great food, comfortable accommodations and plenty of rocking chairs for enjoying great views of the mountains from the retreat center.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Please note:<\/strong> You will be required to enter the following information for each registrant before you can complete your registration: emergency contact, physician contact and health information (allergies, conditions, medications relevant to this field experience). Take a moment to gather this information before beginning your registration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>REGISTRTRATION IS FULL FOR THIS TRIP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the trip is full, please email <a href=\"mailto:melissa.chernick@naturalsciences.org\">Missy Chernick<\/a> to be added to the waitlist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration deadline: <\/strong> Monday, August 25 at 10:00am<\/p>\n<p>For additional information about this trip and other Lifelong Hikes &amp; Adventures, contact <a href=\"mailto:jerry.reynolds@naturalsciences.org\">Jerry Reynolds<\/a> at 919.707.9884.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy the last days of summer at Wildacres Retreat Center, on its own heavily wooded mountain peak just off the Blue Ridge Parkway near Little Switzerland. We will explore nearby trails for wildflowers, mushrooms, salamanders, birds and other wildlife.\u00a0 Evenings will be spent moon and star watching, salamander hunting and moth trapping.\u00a0 Great food, comfortable&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/lifelong-adventure-blue-ridge-at-wildacres\/\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3,92,246,19],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/112334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/112334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112334"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=112334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}