How often do Dartmouth students do outdoors activities?

akxcskier
Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:32:33 +0000

There are official DMC (mountaineering club, part of the outing club) climbing trips that run about 2 to 3 times a week (with more people going out on their own), with one being a beginner trip.

Ledyard runs a beginner whitewater trip a week, plus more to more advanced rivers depending on water levels (more in spring, less in summer/fall, not so much in the winter), and they run pool sessions in the winter and fall to learn to roll.

Cabin and Trial run tons (4-5 a week I bet) of hiking and trailwork trips spring through fall, with some tamer backcountry skiing trips in the winter.

Winter Sports Club runs a few more intense trips in the winter, plus a backcountry ski e-mail list has people taking trips all over probably 4 times a week if more during good snow conditions.

The Mt. Biking club is starting to run trips again, maybe one a week, plus tons of unofficial rides that go out on the listserv (road biking happens all the time as well).

There is a bus that runs several times a day up and back from the skiway during the winter.

Just get involved with the DOC and you’ll meet plenty of people who would be very excited about taking you out to go biking/kayaking/skiing/climbing etc.