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The
University of Massachusetts Outing Club is
a Registered Student Organization (RSO)
of long standing. Its active membership includes undergraduates, graduate
students, faculty, and alumni. Activities go on throughout the school year,
and to a lesser extent during the summer. The club owns an impressive array
of equipment available for club trips, including canoes, kayaks, skis, sleeping
bags, portable stoves, ice-climbing gear, rock climbing gear, caving gear, and
wet suits for canoeing. It also owns a cabin in the White Mountains of New Hampshire
which is a great jumping-off point for outdoor activities up there including
hiking and skiing.
Fall
Fall is when the new academic
season starts, so it is also when new students join the club. For this
reason, there are lots of newcomer and beginner trips that go out. There
are beginner
canoeing, caving
and
rock-climbing trips. We have newcomers' weekends at the
cabin in New Hampshire. The club also reserves the
cabin for itself on the long weekends of Columbus Day in October and Veterans' Day in November.
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Winter Intercession
Intercession means skiing and
ice-climbing. Often, there is also a large expedition to warmer areas
of the country, such as to Georgia or the Everglades for canoeing. Also,
the cabin
in New Hampshire is generally open for folks on a drop-in basis, assuming
that someone volunteers to be the caretaker.
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Spring
There is a skiing trip to the
cabin
in New Hampshire over President's weekend in February traditionally called
"Insanity Weekend" due to the fact that the snow and cold are about at
their worst at that time of year. As Spring advances, people get the last
bits of skiing in, and begin thinking about whitewater kayaking, canoeing and look
forward to the start of the hiking season.
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Spring Break
Traditionally, a caving/
rock climbing trip to West
Virginia is led over Spring Break in March. Other week-long canoeing
trips to warmer climes usually go out, too.
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Summer
Summer means hiking. While the
club tends not to be very active as a group at this time, there is a long
standing tradition of hiking every Tuesday evening from the end of April
through the beginning of September. Check out the
Tuesday Night Hikes home page!
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