Syracuse.com - Outdoors editor reveals his outdoors bucket list for 2013

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What’s on your outdoors bucket list for 2013? Send your items, along with your full name and where you live by noon Wednesday, to [email protected].

I’ve been preparing my outdoors bucket list for 2013.

Among things I hope to accomplish in the outdoors this coming year:

- Drive up to the Osceola Tug Hill Ski Center with my wife to cross-country ski and make a day of it, including dinner at a nice restaurant afterward.

- Contact the Syracuse Biathlon Club and arrange for an outing to give that sport at least one try.

- Buy a two-person ice shanty and propane heater so I can ice fish comfortably.

- Get serious about fly-tying this winter.

- Call in and shoot a turkey all by myself during the spring turkey hunting season.

- Use my kayak and fly rod to fish on Skaneateles Lake during the annual brown drake hatch.

- Get the lights on my 14-foot aluminum boat up to snuff so I can legally fish at night. Also, get a good depth/fishfinder.

- Join, or at least be a substitute, in a trap-shooting league at a local rod and gun club.

- Participate in the 24-hour Montezuma Muckrace (a bird-counting competition) at the Montezuma Montezuma Wetlands Complex.

- Buy and put to good use a trail camera (or two) for deer hunting.

What’s on your outdoors bucket list for 2013? Send your items, along with your full name and where you live by noon Wednesday, to [email protected].

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