❄️❄️❄️❄️BOC Notes Yippee ❄️❄️❄️❄️

• We need a new leadership team for the fall 2025 semester!
  • Leadership candidacy form just got sent out, please fill out if interested!
  • Will close on the 13th!
• Also thinking about different ways to get and keep peoples meeting retention
  • So itā€™s not just people that are in leadershipā€¦
• Add to Cat Tracks
  • If you do cool outdoorsy things they will publish it!

✍️✍️✍️✍️Things for the Future!✍️✍️✍️✍️

• There are new trip leaders being trained right now- how exciting!
  • Will be officially trained and able to lead trips after the first weekend of Short Term
  • Some might have van certifications by then too

🥾🥾🥾🥾What trips are coming up? 🥾🥾🥾🥾

• This Thursday Leif and Iris leading a trip to Popham beach at night
• Would love for more Short Term trips to go out
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  • Could lead an EVO trip tooā€¦
• Rafting this Short Term!
  • And it sold out so fast yipee

• For BOC Leaders
  • On ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ Engage when making your trip
    • Make sure to turn on the no cancelation feature
      • So people have to email us when they cancel
      • And we can get others to sign up/let others know
    • Also you can set it up to check people inĀ 

• Rearranged google drive
  • Folders ā€œTrip Leadersā€ ā†’ ā€œAdminā€ ā†’ ā€œCancellation policyā€ template, fill in the blanks and sent it out
    • So we can keep no-shows accountable
    • Make sure to email them to let them know (see no-show policy)

• Also film; Maine Lines: An All-Women’s Ski Film being screened – join!
  • Produced by and featuring several ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ studentsĀ 
  • This Saturday, 03/01 in the Skelton Lounge in Chase Hall from 7-8pm
  • “Tickets” are free, but can be reserved .Ģż

🐾🐾🐾Cat tracks! (see email) 🐾🐾🐾

• Send in pictures, poems, and outing club energy!
  • To hear about the epic adventures, the gorgeous locations, and the utterly wild trips that get ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ students outside
  • Spread that BOC love & adventures
  • Will compile these tales into a newsletter sent out each semester
  • Take a look at the email

🥾🥾🥾🥾What trips are coming up? 🥾🥾🥾🥾

• EVO trip soon
  • Check out the calendar for stuff!
• No trips (YET) this weekend!
  • Anyone interested in leading?
• Volunteer opportunity ā€“ See Heidiā€™s email
  • This Sunday March 2 from 9AM-3PM at Black Mountain
  • Working Teens to Trails, a Maine based non-profit that works with middle and high school outing clubs to connect students to outdoor experiences
  • Free lift ticket for the time
  • Just check out that lovely email!

• What fun snow things can we do!?Ā 
• Also PSA to move your car if youā€™re parked on the street!

🥾🥾🥾🥾What trips are coming up? 🥾🥾🥾🥾

• Check out the calendar!
• Climbing trip the week after break?
• If we want to do outside rope climbing should recheck the gear

✍️✍️✍️✍️Other notes✍️✍️✍️✍️

• E-room will not be open over break but you can absolutely check gear out if you are planning to do things during break
• Might bring back Cat Tracks?
  • Old BOC newspaper
• Limited use of van is just because of all the other costs (like EVO climbing) that are associated with it

 🍄🍄🍄LEADERSHIP MEETING 🍄🍄🍄

✨✨✨Fastest Leadership Team Intros Ever ✨✨✨

⛄⛄⛄Winter Carnival Thoughts ⛄⛄⛄ 

🧑‍🍳Monday: Camp stove cook-off (theme: breakfast. Channel your inner Chef Ramsey)

• 7-8:30 pm would love some leaders helping set up/use stoves

🎥Tuesday: Movie night (let us know if you have any reqs)

• 7:30-9pm
• This will be in the Ronj (thunderdrome)
• There will be free drinks (but there is a limit for how many you could get – first come, first serve!)

🏂Wednesday: Rail jam (sick!)

• On Bardwell Field!
• Collab with Shred Club – they are in charge so no need for our volunteers

⛷️Thursday: Nordic relay race (join even if you havenā€™t skied before!)

• Come race and invite your friends!
• Page Field
• Den gift card prize for the winners!
• Claire will need help getting extra skis out of the E-Room prior
• Will need large and loud speaker for this

🏃Friday: Torch run + puddle jump (with run-club!)

📝📝📝Other Things! 📝📝📝

• If you are planning a trip that needs snow gear from the E-room (ex: skates, skis, etc), make sure to let the E-Room know ASAP so that they can reserve the gear
• Lets get some more trips out on the calendar!
• No you cannot use the Bobcat express to get to Lost Valley
• April 4th – outdoor expo

Ā 🎊 🎊🎊YAY GENERAL MEETING YAY WINTER SEMESTER 🎊 🎊 🎊

Introductions and 🌊or ⛰️???

Leaders here:

• Lili – OPM ⛰️
• Owen – OPM 🌊
• Zi – DEI ⛰️
• Leif – Secretary ⛰️
• Iris – Social Media Manager 🌊
• Bryce – Rock Climbing ⛰️
• Isabelle – Outdoor Sports Leader ⛰️

 ❄️ ❄️ ❄️Winter Carnival ❄️ ❄️ ❄️

🧑‍🍳Monday: Camp stove cook-off (theme: breakfast. Channel your inner Chef Ramsey)

🎥Tuesday: Movie night (let us know if you have any reqs)

🏂Wednesday: Rail jam (sick!)

⛷️Thursday: Nordic relay race (join even if you havenā€™t skied before!)

🏃Friday: Torch run + puddle jump (with run-club!)

🥾🥾🥾🥾More trips coming up! 🥾🥾🥾🥾

• 2/2/2025 Hadly and Zi leading skating & sledding and & hot cocoa and great vibes at Pineland Farms
• Every-other week alternating indoor climbing and skate shuttle
  • Keep your eyes on ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ Engage
• If any trip leaders have cheap March break trip ideas let us know!

✍️✍️✍️✍️Other notes✍️✍️✍️✍️

• Zi wants to make doc with information about resources about snow sports to help make them more accessible
  • Email her with info!
• E-room has ice-skates & snow-shoes etc!
  • ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ has personal fund thing you can apply for to get downhill skis/help make the outdoors more accessible for people
  • Lost valley has discounted renting for skis for students and itā€™s free for students
  • There is open skating at Underhill gym!
• Would be nice to have intro to snow-camping trip at the lean-to
• BOC trip leader training has a new system to sign up, now application process
  • Application will come out soon (less of a mad rush to sign up on ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ Engage)

🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧑‍🤝‍🧑Election Night – Campaigning! 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧑‍🤝‍🧑

• Leif – Secretary
• David – Front country leader (his 3rd semester serving as it)
• Isabelle – Winter Sports + Front country leader
• Zi – Equity and Inclusion Officer
• Bryce – Climbing
• Iris – Social Media Coordinator
• Charlie – Climbing + Backcountry + BikingĀ 
• Jonah – PaddlingĀ 
• Tommo – Surf
• Kazumi (sent in video) –Ā  Equity and Inclusion Officer
• Lila (also running) – Secretary + Community Liaison
• Heidi (also running) – Community Liaison

✍️✍️✍️✍️Other notes✍️✍️✍️✍️

• If anyone has any photos from BOC outings – send them to Iris to display on Instagram!
• We all want to play more sardinesĀ 
• EVO trips will now only be run once every other week (too $$)
• Really good bouldering at Riverland state park (Hadly)
• Multi-sport triathlon race in spring – has already mapped out possible route (Tommo)
• Lost Valley Takeover is not a thing anymore
• ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ students can still ski for free this year though

🗳️🗳️🗳️Voting has already opened – it closes the 27th at midnight 🗳️🗳️🗳️

🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Introductions 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧑‍🤝‍🧑

 ✍️✍️✍️✍️Reminder to sign up for the leadership team ✍️✍️✍️✍️

• Applications close today at midnight
• Anyone who wants to help shape the BOC should consider signing up

🥾🥾🥾🥾More trips coming up! 🥾🥾🥾🥾

• At Merrill, more climbing Thursday (tomorrow)!
• Midnight LLB run Friday!
• Mt. David hang-out Saturday!
• Rock climbing at EVO

❄️❄️❄️❄️Thoughts on Winter ❄️❄️❄️❄️

• Sunday river opens tomorrow
  • Going to start getting some ski shuttles going
• Ice climbing
  • Have outside guy/company who might take us (tbh)
• Could run a trip with Colby and use their climbing wall (Tomo is planning it?)
• Running out of time for normal outdoor trips
  • Getting chilly; should check-in with Catie for safety concerns
• Still thinking of running a avalanche training course with Al Mandell at some point
• Biking trip if possible
  • We do have ~3 bikes in the E-Room!

🍕🍕🍕🍕 Ate pizza 🍕🍕🍕🍕

Introductions: Name (position) – hopes for BOC/ideas for trips

• Lili (OPM)
• Owen (OPM) – more events not just trips
• Margo (not a Trip Leader just here)Ā 
• David (Front Country Trip Leader) – more lean-to stuff
• Andy (Trip Leader) – more day hiking trips
• Alexis (Equity + Inclusion Officer) – more identity/inclusion group participations
• Zi (Trip Leader)Ā 
• Iris (Social Media Officer)
• Adam (Trip Leader)Ā 
• Will (Trip Leader)Ā 
• Charlie (E-room + Head Climbing) – more climbing/gymĀ  trips
• EvaĀ  (E-room Manager + Trip Leader) – more nature walks (snowshoes?!)
• Jonah (Head Canoe Trip Leader) – sunrise paddle?
• Genevieve (soon to be Trip Leader) – backcountry skiing/overnight?
• Bryce (soon to be Trip Leader)
• Isabelle (Trip Leader)Ā 
• Alita (Trip Leader) – outdoor climbing
• Lisel (Trip Leader) – backcountry skiing
• Addy (Trip Leader) – on campus chill trip
• Leif (Trip Leader + Secretary)
• Mitcheal (Backcountry Head Trip Leader) – poetry hike
• Doug (Trip Leader) – more skiing stuff
• Max (soon to be Trip Leader)Ā 
• Genevieve (Trip Leader) – polar plunge
• Tomo (Head Surf Trip Leader)
• Daniel (soon to be Trip Leader) – cooking in wilderness/campsite

🏕️🏕️🏕️Thoughts and Things! 🏕️🏕️🏕️

• Trying to coordinate avalanche training course (Lili)
• Climbing
  • Group belay certification?
  • We can teach each other hereā€¦?
  • Use Colbyā€™s climbing wall? (Tomo)
• More leadership trips
  • Especially because weather-wise in weird middle season
  • Bowdoin invited us to a ski film (Nov 14 at 7:30)
    • Could we all go somehow though transportation-wise?
    • Because not allowed to drive personal vehicles
    • How many people are interested?
      • Too many for the van!
    • ā†’ Will send out form to see how many people are willing to drive their own vehicles (do it outside of BOC) (Owen + Lili)
• Next next weekend there is a trail work trip at Lost Valley
  • Sign up!
• Can we legally have a real midnight trip?
  • To the LLBean? (David)
• ā†’ Add new trip leaders to the Drive
• Need more trip leaders for surfing (just show up and do homework on beach?!)
• We do not run trips over Thanksgiving break
  • Can get stuff from E-room though for personal trips anyway!
• Keep eyes open for info regarding the election (coming soon)

✍️✍️✍️What do we want on the calendar for November?✍️✍️✍️

• New Evo trip (Tomo)
• Hike for Nov 10th (Mitcheal)
• LLBean run on Nov 15th (David)
• Some on-campus ideas
  • Mitcheal wants to lead sardines (successfully this time hopefully)
  • Fort-building (Isabelle)
  • Tent set-up workshop + stoves? (Alita)

🎃🎃🎃Trick-O-Treating for Halloween (tomorrow!)🎃🎃🎃

• Come in an (appropriate) costume!
• Come with good (sober) vibes!
• Sign up on the form if you can commit!
  • If not just drop by!

We were privileged to be joined by Al Mandell, a professional guide, and avalanche educator, from Acadia Mountain Guides! He gave us a very informative, interesting (and important!!) slide presentation about snow safety and avalanche awareness.

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We also passed around avalanche equipment and had an avalanche beacon demonstration. Some of the equipment we learned about included a snow probe, avalanche shovel (you can turn it into a hoe!?), ski boot crampons, and adjustable poles (better than non-adjustable because you can take out the bottom part and use it as a knee splint if needed!).

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Al will email our wonderful OPMā€™s a bunch of links with much of this information, and said heā€™s happy to be a resource for interested students!

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Incredible information and a great student turnout! See future emails from BOC for more information!

• New calendar:
  • Put your trips in!
  • If the van is green; available (AM/PM tells when/who its available)
    • Van use is first come first serve, trying to avoid overlap
  • If you want to run a trip but still need a co-leader; can put that in the calendar!
  • This is amazing! We have so many trips going out! Woohoo!!
• New trip organizing protocol:Ā 
  • Make sure to put your thing/all info in the calendar/check if van is available ā†’ Email OPMā€™s telling them ā†’ they let you know all is well ā†’ can put on ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ Engage + commons orders/all else needed
• Minimum time to put something on ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ Engage is 2 days within its happening
  • ā†’ Make sure to have things on ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ Engage early!!

ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ Engage stuff

• Catie contacted ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ Engage about issues with emails/delays with ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ Engage ā†’ they donā€™t know what’s wrong (womp womp)
• Trip Leaders: Put our trip cancellation policy in ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ Engage!!
  • Then you donā€™t have to email people extra

Other updates/things:

• One more spot for WFA training if anyone needs theirs recertified
• EVO trips
  • Strongly recommend belay experience (donā€™t need to be certified at EVO but do need to be able to prove you know how)
• Van key drop off system outside Catie’s Office
  • If you need a credit card for gas it’s in there already as well (w/ envelope for receipts)–> can drop off after
  • Cannot scan into campus life on weekends ā† make sure to pick up before weekend/coordinate a different spot? Outside of E-room?
  • Will have old fashioned sign-out sheet that must be filled out (where/who has keys when)
• If you want to run canoe trip talk to Catie or Hayden to get trailer trained
• OPMā€™s meet with Catie weekly on wednesday afternoons; ask them if you want them to ask her anything

Other trip ideas:

Bike trip?

Mores Mountain Mac nā€™ Cheese?

BOC banquet?

With snow sculptures?

Other nefarious exciting things?

Leadership Adventures? (Lili)

Fun little trips for leadership team/trip leaders

• There’s an island close to riverlands state park – canoe, camp out on the island (first come/first serve camp spot)
• People drive their own vehicle; we send from personal email accounts (not through ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ Engage, not ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ funded)
• Students can’t drive their own personal vehicles for a BOC funded/affiliated trip
  • Cannot be funded with your own personal car
  • Can’t take canoe trailer with personal car

Do we want more intense outings to be available to everyone in the club? (Heidi)

ā†’ Yes, in general we have to trust that people will show up for serious commitment events especially when other non-bates community people are involved

Are going to be doing the same no/show policy for community engagement things as well

Who wants to help with halloween/candy handing out? Heidi will send out an email!

Have activities other than just candy too? Fairy houses/cornhole/little field games

How to have trip leaders/leadership everyone in contact with each other?

ā†’ Slack!! (super secret for leadership to join)