hey bobs

do you ever feel like a plastic bag? wouldn’t that be pretty wacky? you are just a husk of a being blowing into the wind. however, you have major potential! you can hold jellybeans! or sand! i mean yeah you are pretty easy to poke holes through and you are kinda fragile but aren’t we all?

what we done did

there was a snowshoeing trip led by the venture out project!
- it sounded gr9
abby got super good at skate skiing
- max is skeptical
- she went down the big hills even
- taryn fell ~15 times
jackie and ming and max went to flagstaff hut skiing
- the lake was frozen, bigelows majestic
soren went to shed pond in manchester (me) and he fell into the stream
- his feet were “wet”
lacey was outside her dorm and correctly IDed a house finch outside!
- it was -6 out and the tweeting birds had no coats!
max and taryn and charlie went to camden and saw lots of dogs
- max didn’t pet a lot of them (what gives?)
- it was toasty, charlie ran up the mountain
molly went skiing on the messalonskee lake today
- it was nice and ice is flat
alice and annie and margaret went to burnt mountain
- they sank into the snow
- margaret saw a new bird “pine grosbeak” (see left) 7/10
megan and soren went xc skiing around witch hole pond
- it rocked!
will got up early and went to saddleback
- there were skis involved but megan didn’t catch this part

what we gon do

grace n and jack are leading a ski trip this weekend
- she is also leading with taryn???
- she is gonna be hella active
lacey wants to go to popham beach
- there was scattered interest
- you can swim if you want to
- max and taryn can lead this trip
soren wants to lead a hike up the mountain and into bentleys cave
- after geo seminar ~2pm
molly and questbridge are leading a learn to ski trip
- you can probably just show up and do it
soren wants to go up puzzle mountain
- he is gonna say it until someone does it
- taryn has wooden 3d puzzles

leader SWAG

if you are a leader and lead 2 trips by the end of the year, you will get somethin
- it is usually cool
- GO AND LEAD TWO TRIPS SILLY BILLYS

kayak clinics

social media

question of the week

bigelow buddies

trips
- planning spring LTTs! leader trainer dependent / interest dependent
d&i
- things are boiling
- LEARN TO SWIM LESSONS ARE COMING
  - not available to faculty sorry guys…
- jack said something about grace (absent)
gear
- we do have gear
- more gear is coming! skis and winter boots!
- get the gear is coming! a video project
- if you have overdue gear molly is coming for you
  - max (daddy) is a criminal
- if the gear room is open, close it
  - do not raid it lol
cabin
- absent
  - he says “hi” and that he “misses us”
- WE LOVE MING
sugaring
- jack tapped all the 32 trees by himself and should learn to use technology better
- however, he is not done so he may look for help
  - next saturday afternoon sugaring gathering! L E A P D A Y
    - fire and hot cocoa and maple viewing and tapping and sapping!
    - check your emails for communication from jack
events
- learn to knit nights! this tuesday
- whittling wednesday continues!
- craft club collab in the works!
  - possibly painting birdhouses!
k council
- the carpet is getting cleaned soon!