"exploring the forest" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing an activity that one is undertaking or has undertaken. For example, "The children spent the day exploring the forest, finding mushrooms and insects to observe."
Child-friendly activities range from Dusk Watch, where you track night time creatures, and exploring the forest with a ranger.
Activities on offer include exploring the forest tracks on quad bikes, kayaking and rock climbing, and further afield there are several boutique wineries on a tasting trail.
Newcomers to the region, 14-year-old Eric (Nathan Varnson) and his nine-year-old brother Tommy Ryan Jonesspendend their holiday exploring the forest and lakeside with each other and with friends.
He took an interest in fishing with his brothers as well as gardening in the Hall's grounds, and spent much time exploring the Forest, where he was fascinated both by the Iron Age earthworks at Loughton Camp and Ambresbury Banks and by the Early Modern Hunting Lodge at Chingford.
You can be snorkelling in the Great Barrier Reef one day and exploring the forests the next.
Downtime is spent exploring the forests, fishing with locals, and lounging on some of Africa's most untouched beaches.
The day is for hiking: exploring the forests and upper valleys of the area where there are cave churches, remnants of an eremitic society that came here to hide from Mongol and Ottoman invaders.
It allows adults to become kids again, spending their days exploring the forests or mountains; hiking, swimming, skateboarding, snowboarding and even white water rafting, there is never a dull day".
As the keynoter for the park's first astronomical festival Dr. Musgrave told us how his early years exploring the forests in his Massachusetts neighborhood prepared him to perform delicate "eye surgery" on the Hubble Telescope in outer space in 1993.
