• Becoming an Outdoors Family Winter Weekend, Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center, Lanesboro, Minn., Feb. 11-12.Cost: $80 per person or $300 for a family of four.

Classes offered: Cross-country skiing, air gun, ice fishing, snowshoeing, archery, rock climbing, ropes course

• Becoming an Outdoors Woman, Feb. 24-26. Audubon Environmental Learning Center, Sandstone, Minn.

Cost: $170, before Feb. 1.

Classes offered: Sled dog mushing, snowmobiling, geocaching, wild game cooking, cross-country skiing, skijoring.

The Department of Natural Resources programs are an offshoot of its popular Becoming an Outdoors Woman series, which it started in 1994. For more information, including spring, summer and fall offerings, go to www.mndnr.gov/education/bow or call 1-218-833-8628.