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2005 Spring Semester Events

April 23 : Alternative D-Day bike trip.

April 27 : Eco House Going Corporate Party!

April 27 - April 29 : Zoe and Vanessa are leading a rafting trip in Western Mass.  A day of rafting, night of camping, and day of hiking in between.

April 30 - May 1 : Cycling Trip to Letchworth Park. Also, Kayaking trip to Letchworth, date yet uncertain.

May 7 - May 10 : Tentative backpacking trip to the Shanendoah Valley in Virginia.

May 16 : Three week trip to the Blood Vein River in Upper Ontario leaves.

2003 Spring Semester Events

Jan 17-19: Mountain Fest!! A huge gathering of outdoorsy people in Lake Placid.  The UROC crew took classes in Ice Climbing, Mountaineering, Backcountry Medicine.  People also took advantage of the great slopes and got some skiing in.  Dinner at Andy's house was great, and a special thanks to Vinny, organizer of Mountain Fest who donated his cabin as lodging so our club wouldn't freeze to death!!

Jan 18: Bristol Harbour XC-Ski Race.  UR must have won the collegiate division, because all of our racers finished top 10!! Those of us who were new to competitive cross country skiing had a great time and learned a lot.

Jan 26: Skiing at Mendon Ponds

Feb 1-2: Wilderness First Aid Course at McMaster's University in Canada.  Thanks to McMaster's Outing Club for Hosting!!!

Feb 5: UROC EXTREME!!  Pizza and Extreme Sports movies.

Feb 8-9: Snowshoe Backpacking Trip:  We lucked out with this trip, and it turned out to be not so cold!!!  The trail was challenging on showshoes, but the overall trip was beautiful.

Feb 13: UROC Potluck Dinner.

Feb 16: Snowshoeing at Mendon Ponds

March 1:  Equipment Room spring cleaning.  We scrubbed, sorted and rearranged.  It looks great now. Check it out if you haven't seen it.

Feb 23:  Day Hike/ Snowshoe

April 4-6:  Rafting in West Virginia .  Beautiful sights, awesome river.

April 19:  Trail cleanup with BSU, and a great picnic!  Thanks to CLC's Cross Cultural Grant that helped us fund the food.

April 27: Orienteering Powder Mills Park. Start from noon to 2:00 p.m. We'll leave from Clarc at 11:30

April 29: Banff Mountain Film Festival, . See great footage of wild outdoor activities! Great stories too! $9 at Snow Country

April 30: Last meeting (sniff).   We watched the Imax film Everest and have pizza and soda!

**  If you attended any of the above trips, please contribute to the UROC Trip Log, by sending your reflections/suggestions for the trip to em006i.  Also if you have any pictures, send them to the same address.

2002 Fall Semester Events

Sept 1: Freshman Orientation Hike! We took 20 freshmen to Letchworth for the day, saw the waterfalls, hiked the gorge trail, crossed the bridge with a train on it, and enjoyed the beautiful day!

Sept 14: Day Hike to Grimes Glen and High Tor. It was muddy, wet, cold, rainy, and awesome!

Sept 21: Day Hike to Stoney Brook Gorge.

Sept 27: Equipment orientation. We set up tents, learned to use the stoves, made suggestions for new equipment purchases.

Fall Break (Oct 3-6):

• Algonquin Canoe Trip: Canoed and portaged through the Algonquin wilderness in Canada. Wind caused some.. ahem... mishaps, but we were hardcore and perservered!
• White Face Hiking: Climbed the famous Adirondak peak! Also did some fun bouldering. It was a little cloudy... as in, we were in the clouds, but it made for an awesome sun effect.
• Stillwater Canoeing: Canoe camping in the Adirondaks- beautiful foliage, no portage! Beautiful weather. Again, wind was an issue, but it allowed for the invention of the "find the canoe" game!

Oct 18: Maize maze:  We Braved the Wild West (and 4 million girl scouts) to get all the map pieces and make it through the golden horseshow to the exit to the maze.  SOME people used the whippersnappers exit.

Oct 19: Ropes Course.  Was completed by all who tried it (wahoo!).  This was a high ropes course, in the rain, but that didn't stop us!  We also had to contend with the dog biting at our heels as we came down the zip line at the end.

Oct 26: Pumpkin Picking!

Oct 27: Orienteering at Irondequoit Bay Park East. We all did well, learned a few new tips, and hiked some huge terrain!!

Nov 10: Bike trip to Letchworth Park.

Nov 18: Climbing at Rockventures.

Nov 22:  Cabin Camping in Allegany State Park!  We had a nice relaxing weekend in a warm cozy cabin, played games, guitar and banjo, ultimate frisbee in the snow, then we cooked a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner!!!!

Dec 7:  AHA CPR certification.  Rest better knowing that 7 more of your fellow UROCers are trained to give basic CPR.

2002 Spring Semester Events

Jan 19th:(weekend of) Mountain Fest!! Various people took courses in High Altitude Medicine, Ice Climbing, and Avalanche Safety. Highlights also included camping in 2 feet of snow.

Jan 26th: Orienteering at Webster Park Nadia and Julie V. came in 23rd out of 40 groups... Erika, Julie E. and Ke came in later… much later. Damn course rules. But we had just as much fun.

Feb 23rd: Day Hike to Letchworth

March 9th -10th: Wilderness First Aid course held at Binghamton University

March 30th: High Ropes Course.

April 14th: Orienteering. A big DNF for Julie and Erika- it’s ok, we had to help a friend with a dislocated elbow. (Orienteering is not normally dangerous).