Fresh air calendar

› Soddy-Daisy chapter of Tennessee Trails Assn. hikes:

Saturday, Sluder Lane to Heiss Mountain trailhead, strenuous 9 miles (will stage vehicles, meet at 9 a.m. at Durham Street parking lot in Soddy-Daisy); April 15, Virgin Falls, strenuous 8 miles (meet at 9 a.m. at Durham Street lot); April 18, Signal Mountain MS/HS loop, easy to moderate 3.5 miles (meet at 9 a.m. at Food City parking lot in Red Bank); April 22, Retro Hughes Road to Heiss Mountain trailhead, strenuous 10 miles (will stage vehicles, meet at 9 a.m. at Durham Street lot). Contact George Bonneau at george.r.bonneau@gmail.com or 842-3619.

› Family Funday at Greenway Farm: Sunday, 3-6 p.m.; canoeing ($25), archery, biking, hiking; canoes available 3-5 p.m. at boat ramp behind the gardens; archery range is next to dog park. Call 643-6888.

› Spring Breaker day camp:

Monday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Cloudland Canyon; ages 6-12, $20 plus $5 park user’s fee; pre-registration required at visitor center. Call 706-657-4050.

› Leave No Trace trainer course: Registration deadline Monday; April 22-23, Lula Lake, hosted by Outdoor Chattanooga; fun, practical workshop on the ethics & practice of minimum-impact recreation, camping & travel; completion certifies participants to teach awareness classes; $85 with meals, transportation included. Call 643-6888.

› Adaptive cycling program:

Monday, 6 p.m. from Hubert Fry Center at Tennessee Riverpark; sponsored by SPARC & city of Chattanooga therapeutic recreation division; 3-wheelers, hand cycles & tandem bikes available; free but pre-registration required through Jerry at jhightower@ctiengr.com or 596-5268 or Elaine at adams_e@chattanooga.gov or 697-1345.

› Full moon hike: Tuesday, Stringer’s Ridge; leisurely paced, beginner-friendly 3-mile round trip appropriate for ages 10 (with adult) and older; about 90 minutes, pre-registration required. Call 643-6888.

› “Armchair Traveler: Bicycle Touring in Europe”:

Tuesday, 6-7:30 p.m., Outdoor Chattanooga. Coolidge Park; tales from Chattanooga resident & BikeTour.com founder Jim Johnson followed by short videos; featured guest Jacob Ketel from German-based Islandhopping company. Call 643-6888.

› Local Tennessee Ornithological Society meeting: April 13, 7 p.m., Ascension Lutheran Church, 720 S. Germantown Road. Contact David Stone at rockyturf@comcast.net or 238-4234.

› U.S. Masters Swimming open-water national races: June 2-4, Chattanooga; registration underway; 1-3-mile national championship on June 3, 9-plus-miler on June 4, both in Tennessee River; 1-mile fun swim on June 2; must be USMS member to compete for national titles. See chattswimfest.com.

Outdoors notes

› Bryan first, UTC fifth: Bryan College anglers added to their lead in the Cabela’s School of the Year standings two weekends ago on Lake Dardanelle, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga now is fifth behind the Lions (1,942 points), North Alabama (1,878), Tennessee (1,800) and Mississippi State. Tennessee Tech is ninth. Lake Dardanelle was the site of the Cabela’s Collegiate Bass Fishing Open, which counted a school’s top two boats together and then its next two, and so on. Bryan’s Connor and Chandler Fogg (18.67 pounds) and Nathan Bell and Cole Sands (14.6) were 13th with their 33.27 total, and the Dayton school also had Matt Brown, D.J. Barber, Jake Lee and Jacob Foutz 30th at 29.10. UTC’s Brennan Holt, Wyatt Beavers, Patrick Hoskins and Dillon Falardeau were 22nd at 31.17.

› Another record for Norris: Waconda Bay resident Steve Norris is up to 21 now in his collection of fishing line-class world records. His most recent standard certified by the Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame was a 19-inch spotted bass caught Jan. 18 in the Nickajack headwaters on the Tennessee River (just below Chickamauga Dam). The record was for 6-pound-test line in the rod-and-reel division of the catch-and-release category. That record-breaker came just seven weeks after his 20th one. “It’s a lot of fun, and it’s a great advertisement for our resources in this area,” Norris said Wednesday. “This is just a great place to fish, in my opinion. And spotted bass during the wintertime are real prolific. I’ve just been fortunate to find some of their hiding places. It’s a lot of fun to catch spots. It’s really a terrific fish.”