Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trips

Yale2006
Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:22:04 +0000

Hey-

I just wanted to let everyone out there know about a program that I’m a part of at Yale that is incredibly awesome: Freshmen Outdoor Orientation Trips (FOOT). There are similar outdoor orientation programs at many schools and I strongly urge you to do one wherever you go.
About 400-500 Freshmen each year do FOOT; it’s the largest of the orientation trips by far.
On FOOT, you go on four or six day trips in the woods with seven to nine other freshmen and two upperclass leaders during the days before Yale begins. You get back to Yale the same day all the other Freshman who didn’t do stuff do, but you have learned about Yale and gotten to know two upperclassmen really well as well a group of freshme. Everyone I know who did FOOT loved it and many people who didn’t do it wish they had.
There are trips of all different skill levels. If you’ve never hiked before there’s a place for you, and if you’ve climbed the alps blindfolded we’ve got a trip for you too. Seriously. I had almost no backpacking experience and I loved FOOT so much that I trained up and became a leader!
I strongly urge everyone to take a look at the info- it’s at www.yale.edu/foot.
Post if you have any questions and I’ll try to answer them.

Good luck to everyone in the college process!