Harvard Outing Club

The HOC Summer Session is just a few weeks away!
We will be running hiking, biking, kayaking, and canoeing trips all summer, and our well stocked Gear Collective is available for use by all Summer Session members, for club-run or personal trips.

Do you want to learn to lead outdoors trips?  Do you like sporks, campfire singalongs, or fiddling on top of mountains? Do you want a guaranteed spot on HOC trips?   If you anwered yes to any of the above, consider applying for the fall 2008 HOC Leader Training Program!

Click here to download the Fall 2009 Leader Training Application!

Present: Heather Charmichael, Nicole Irwin, Firth Mceachern, Tom Wooten (author)

"Girls with hatchets! What are you, pirates??"

Thanks to all who made the spring Square Dance possible! The dance was a great success, with about 200 people in attendance over the course of the evening. Here's what our caller had to say about us:

Goal = 24 hour hut traverse
Training Regimen

The 2008 Intercession Trip was a huge success! Twenty one people came on the trip, filling the cabin with songs, good cheer, and of course delicious food.
On the first day of the trip, [I can't remember what we did--probably something naughty in the woods.]
On Day 2, some folks went snowshoeing near Jackson, NH, while others tried out cross-country skiing, both on groomed and backcountry trails. Since many people had not been XC skiing before, the day featured both flashes of brilliance and spectacular wipeouts.