Should you be out and about tonight, just a hankering for some outdoorsy thing to do, well, you have a couple of choices anyway.

For one, you could trundle on over to USM in Portland for the program "Wind Power in Maine" with Dave Publicover, Senior Staff Scientist for the Appalachian Mountain Club.

I listened to Publicover speak on the topic at the Maine Mountain Conference a year or so ago and he knows his stuff and presents in a compelling manner. Dave will speak on wind power energy in Maine, the potential for additional wind power projects here, how wind power projects are evaluated, and how wind energy can reduce our carbon footprint.

Good stuff we need to know about because the time is now.

Mars Hill wind farm scene. What's the future of wind energy in Maine?
MaineWind.org photo

The event is sponsored by the Maine AMC and is free and open to the public. Get yourself to the Luther Bonney Auditorium at 7 PM if you want in on the wind.

Another option is to head on over to Maine Audubon and Gilsland Farm in Falmouth for the monthly Traveler's Forum, also starting at 7 PM.

Yours truly - Trail Head - will present on backpacking the "West Coast Trail" in British Columbia. This was a magnificent 8-day, 55-mile trek along the wet and wild western coast of Vancouver Island, done last September with several hiking buddies from Maine.

Long on my "to do" list, Canada's most famous trail exceeded expections with fabulous coastal scenery, lush rain forests, harsh weather, beach campsites every evening, glorious sunsets and mega solitude.


A grand Pacific sunset on the West Coast Trail, Pacific Rim National Park, Vancouver Island, BC Canada.
Carey Kish photo

OK then, your choice. Wind power or my hot air.

Or you could just go have a beer somewhere instead...