hello my beautiful outdoors-goers!
there is no denying that the year is underway and at some point, academic things will have to be done. however, there’s nothing wrong with shoving that paper to the back of your mind, throwing your backpack off of miller tower, and scuttling into the woods to scrape by on acorn flower and fungi. everyone needs that every so often.
but what if you’re new to colby, maine, or the outdoors in general? to whom will you turn for the best in acorn mashing advice? well that’s where we come in.* we run trips that hit all aspects of acorn mashing, from the planning to the hiking to the foraging to the cooking.* we provide gear (for free!) to help you get the right mash for even the trickiest of acorns.* and, we foster the community that fuels innovation across the acorn-mashing world!*
what follows below is the distillation of a week’s worth of adventure, emotion, and vision. forge on, dear reader, and learn of our exploits!
* we have no experience in mashing acorns. but we do like going outside.
stuff we done did
- dom on friday went fishing and then on saturday went to the beach and then hiked french mountain
- bentley got sunburnt playing frisbee
- anna went to her own burrito night because she’s abroad at bigelow
- grace and soren and some folks went to the northern end of baxter state park to hike the travelers and it was super lovely
- michael played wiffleball with 15 friends! rip one of the wiffle balls
- grace and grace and olivia hiked tumbledown and nature called
- emma and ali and some other folks climbed the bible camp blueberry mountain and found some pilgrims too
- megan and dru and teddy went to tumbledown, saw some dogs. there was blood and sweat and some partial nudity (spicy!)
- kaitlin and the ES capstone people had some mandatory bonding at the flagstaff hut
what we gon do
- max wants to lead a night hike up french mountain
- so does soren and julia and like half the club apparently (RIVALS)
- upon further examination soren is unable to so don’t count on that
- so does soren and julia and like half the club apparently (RIVALS)
- kayaks 6:15 to 8:30 on tuesdays! they’re in the AC pool for anyone who wants to learn how to yak / roll a yak / have some fun in yaks
- megan wants to go outside with max maybe up saddleback or sugarloaf
fall break!
- proposals for trips are due this friday!! this friday!! like in five days!!
- wowee that’s soon, get on that ish
- k council / trips facilitation needs the leader’s names, qualifications, itinerary, itemized budget, etc
vehicles
- attention leaders!
- we’re posting a form on the coc website to fill out when you need to rent a car
- for weekend trips you’ll have til 7:00 (1900) on wednesday night to fill this bad boy out
katahdin
- aka k tahds aka mama k
- we ran the lottery for spots
- if you didn’t get on, sorry, run again next year
- if you got on, congrats! you got an email
- trips this weekend and next
poll
- would you rather fight a bear or a moose?
- lots of fighting polls recently
- bear – 15
- moose – 19
- closer than expected but 19 of you are highly mistaken
common ground
- it’s this coming weekend!
- it’s run by the maine organic farmers and gardeners association and it’s super cool and they have cheese and animals and gourds and plenty of other maine farmy type things and tickets are five dollars in the spa and there very well might be a bus
four square
- we should play
committees
trips
- how to become a leader email just went out!
- also you can just ask emma and macey questions
gear
- we have gear
- look at it
- wear it
- smell it
- BE it
- we also have a tub of lard
cabin
- we have a cabin
- look at it
- wear it
- smell it
- BE it
- no tub of lard there, sorry
diversity and inclusion
- pughpalooza is coming up!
- coc people should come
- this thursday 7-9
- fun fun fun
sugaring
- ya
events
- events are coming
- arb trailwork?? movie nights?? DOG SLEDDING??
hot seats
GRACE ANDREWS
- no lights
- hands
- meese
- sweat jelly
- cubes
- poop
- the library when it’s empty
- basement
- miller
- that bird head [editors note actually a fish]
- grass
TARYN WAITE
- schedule
- potato
- lehsure
- tomato
- gray
- peCAN
- probably like polyester cotton blend (50/50)
- yellow one
- british
- ahhhhhhhh i don’t know
- sometimes there’s a fork shortage in dana
- trees