Outdoors style beach week for dirt cheap!?! Want to go to Beach Week? Don’t want to spend loads of money? Saturday the 9th we are going to travel down to Outer Banks. There is a SWEET campground right on the beach (i think). either way the beach will be close and beautiful! Most of the costs for lodging, food and …
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Cinco De Mayo Crabtree Meadows Camping and Crabtree Falls Hike
Hey guys! So we’ll leave in the afternoon on the 5th and head up to Crabtree Meadows where there are awesome REMOTE campgrounds. Do a little bit of hiking, toss the frisbee, build a big ole campfire and hang out all night. This is car camping so we will not have to carry any gear to the campsite. On the …
Old Rag Sunset Hike/Camping Out/Sunrise Hike
Hey everyone… So this is the trip you have been WAITING for! This Friday night (weather permitting), we are going to hike the beloved Old Rag mountain in the Shenandoah National Forest at sunset. Then we’ll camp out near the base of the mountain (You can camp below 2500 feet) and, if people want, we can hike AGAIN to see …
Var Spring Caving Convention 2009!
It is finally time for Spring VAR caving!!! We will leave Friday night arriving at our campsite that night. We will be exploring 2 caves on Saturday and 1 cave on Sunday with awesome guides. There will be several trips of beginner, intermediate, and advanced caves; so you can choose your level and caves once we arrive Friday night. Besides …
1st Annual Recreational Alleghany Highlands Triathlon
Do you like to run, road bike, and paddle? Perfect! Join me at the Alleghany Highlands Triathalon! This is my first-ever triathalon; I am not an expert trainer, and I am more excited about doing my three favorite sports than winning first place. The main purpose of this trip (for me) is to carpool and camp together, and to HAVE …
Snowshoeing and Winter Camping in West (by God) Virginia
This is an adventure to the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. My desire is to do a snowshoeing/backpacking trip into the Dolly Sods Wilderness near Canaan Valley West Virginia. This area is ~3.5hrs from C’ville. We’ll be snowshoeing, backpacking, and camping. You don’t need any snowshoeing experience – it’s easy to learn. But, you should have some backpacking and …
Spring Break on An Island!
No Spring Break plans yet? Going home is (probably) economic but let’s face it, you want to do something wild and outdoorsy. Outdoorsy things like skiing sound great but so dang cold, and you know you want warm. Cancun is warm, but it ain’t cheap junior, and it’s outrageously crowded. So why not do something inexpensive, warm, outdoorsy, and incredible? …
Backpacking in West Virginia
Let’s go! Come out for a relaxing weekend in the woods, and catch the last of the lovely autumn leaves. Good food, good people, and great views to be had! Be aware that it will get very cold at night in the mountains (probably around 30 degrees), but hopefully the weather we’re having now during the day will continue for …
Aca Collegiate Canoe and Kayak National Championships
Weekend of races for college students. Teams will be coming to compete in Kayak and Canoeing races on a 5 mile stretch of the Rappahannock in the whitewaters of the Fall Line. The events are Men’s and Women’s OC1 and K1 and Mixed OC1 for Saturday. Sunday is a relay for teams of 6 with the canoe being the baton. …
Slacklining in the Lawn
Learn how to flyfish. Then come learn how to slackline. Kudos for those who can do both at the same time. I will be there for longer if many of you want to learn how to slackline. The slackline will be set up near the flyfish workshop between the middle of the lawn and the upper lawn. If you have …
Fall Break Backpacking at Dolly Sods Wv
Come out for the long weekend to see some of the best fall foliage in the east! Dolly Sods is in a gorgeous area of West Virginia near Seneca Rocks and Canaan Valley. The colors and landscape are amazing, and you’ll feel as though you’re in a different part of the country entirely! This trip is open to all levels …
Camping and Horseback Riding in Shenandoah Natl Park!
Staying at school for reading days? Take a break from C-ville and come camping and horseback riding in the morning at Shenandoah National Park! Itinerary: Leave from Echols 3:45 PM Sunday Oct 12 Eat dinner and camp out at Big Meadows Campground. Break camp early in the morning to depart on an 8:45 horseback trail ride, lasts one hour. Depending …
Fall Backpacking at Dolly Sods
Alright, time for the (my) third annual backpacking trip to Dolly Sods, WV. A magical early October world of fall colors and beautiful vistas. The last two years’ trips have been spectacular! This trip will leave Friday night from Echols Dorm @ 5:30Pm. We’ll drive the 3 hours to Dolly Sods, grab some dinner and coffee (bring some ca$h) on …
Gauley Fest!
Gauley Fest is the biggest whitewater kayaking festival of the year. Last year pretty much every major kayaking company was there selling and giving stuff away, and about 3000 people, kayakers and groupies alike. Here’s the link to the American Whitewater website about it: http://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/Wiki/aw:events_gauley I’m planning to head down Friday afternoon, leaving around 2, and coming back late Sunday. …
Outdoors Style Beach Week for Free!
Outdoors style beach week for FREE! Want to go to Beach Week? Don’t want to spend loads of money? Gotta see mommy for Mothers Day? Monday the 12th we are going to travel down to Oregon Inlet, NC. This is a SWEET campground right on the beach in the Outer Banks. There is a layer of awesome dunes between us …
Camping, Biking, Hiking, Fishing- Whitetop Laurel
canceled due to lack of drivers and interest of enough people for this weekend…
Multi-Cache Geo Party – 3×3 Treasure Hunt @Old Rag
Alright, so some of you have heard me mention this in the past – it’s time to finally give it a go. We’re taking 3 teams of 3 people out to Old Rag for a multi-cache weekend event. If you have not heard of Geo-caching before it can be thought of as treasure hunting. The catch being everything is done …
Backpacking: Mcafee Knob, Tinker Cliffs, Dragon’s Tooth
McAfee Knob and Tinker Cliffs have some of the best views on the Appalachian Trail. This section of the AT will give us amazing 360 degree views of forested valleys near Roanoke, just turning green with the first signs of spring. Come enjoy the views with fellow outdoorsy-folk, learn some basic backcountry cooking, and scramble around on the rocky outcrops …
Spring Backpacking in Cumberland Island, Ga
If you missed the boat on Cancun, but you’re still looking to go somewhere warm for Spring Break, this trip’s for you: come to Cumberland Island National Park! Cumberland Island is on the southern coast of Georgia. This island boasts over 50 miles of hiking trails, as well as many designated backcountry camp sites. The island has several scenic hiking …
Raft the Rio Grande
Come get ya some majestic desert beauty this spring break. Some guarenteed sunshine, too. Big Bend is a large and magnificent but little known corner of the national parks landscape. The park is named for a huge curve in the Rio Grande river, which flows from Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico, forming the Texas-Mexico border for hundreds of miles. …
Hot Chocolate! and Stove Workshop!
Want to learn how to use our kickass MSR Whisperlite backpacking stoves without singing your eyebrows off??? Want to share hot chocolate on a cold evening with fellow outdoors-folk??? Then come to my house on Tuesday evening for a short lesson on how to use the club stoves! We’ll be making hot chocolate once we figure out how to light …
Trip Leader Workshop 2
Want to learn how to lead trips or how to lead better trips? We will be going over all the basics of trip leading in the club, reimbursements, trip descriptions, basic logistics and info, activities, etc. Also, we will go over several common problems and go over how not to lead trips (mostly by examining all of the situations Ive …
Snowshoe Campout!
We will be driving up to Snowshoe Mountain this Saturday morning, leaving at 6:30 a.m. in order to get there by the opening of the lifts. Saturday night we will be camping out in either: a) The Greenbriar River Trail Trail-Head in Cass, WV or b) The backyard of one of the cabins in Cass (piggy-backing off of Landon’s trip) …
Spring Break- Canoes, Gators, and the Everglades
Saturday: Leave Charlottesville, Saturday at 5 am—drive around 10 hrs to campsite, that I will be finding soon Sunday: Depart at 7 AM for Flamingo Ranger station (closes at 4:30)- camp at Flamingo Ranger station for the evening and shower for the week! Monday: Commence canoeing, Trip will depend on campsite availability and we have many options for choosing routes …
Camping/Stargazing/Sunset&Rise/Backpacking-Ish
Cold Mountain and Mount Pleasant form a easy to moderate figure 8 hike about an hour south of C-ville. We’ll meet at 9:30am Saturday and start the trip by hiking the Cold Mountain loop (5.8miles) as a day hike. When we get back to the parking lot we’ll grab our packs from the car and hike about 3 miles to …
New River Kayaking, Canoeing, Fishing, and Camping Trip!
For reading days, I’m planning a canoeing, kayaking, fishing, and camping trip on a few sections of the river south of the Gorge. This water ranges from flat water to Class III, so you should definitely have some experience on whitewater if you’re going to sign up for this trip. Below is our itinerary: Friday night: camp at Glade Creek …
Quartzite Climbing: Beginner to Advanced
This trip is for all levels of climbers, 5.6-5.12+. If you know how to belay you are welcome to join. If you never climbed quartzite, I recommend it. Interesting features…. Pilot Mt is in N-Carolina about 3 hours and half driving from Charlottesville. We climb Sat, camp Sat night and climb Sun. from rockclimbing.com: ‘The sports routes start in the …
Pre-Raft Backpacking Overnight in Wv
Are you signed up for the rafting trip during fall break? Would you like to go for a backpacking overnight the Saturday before we raft? Then this trip is for you! We’ll be heading out relatively early Saturday morning. A specific destination is yet TBD, but we will be setting up camp in West Virginia, probably either in Monongahela National …
Advanced Kayaking: Gauley River
This adventure is appropriate for class IV+ kayakers. We will paddle the middle section of the Gauley River at least once Saturday morning and at least once Sunday morning, perhaps running the lower Gauley as well on Sunday. We will camp Friday and Saturday nights. Please come prepared (clothes and sleeping gear), and feel free to ask me if you …
Gauley Fest: Kayaking and Outdoors Dream Come True
The Gauley Festival (known as “the paddling world’s biggest party”) is the largest river festival in the world, and it’s coming up this weekend. Located only 3.5 hours from Charlottesville, this is really a can’t miss opportunity. The jist of the festival is kayak (or climb) during the day, hangout with other fun outdoors-oriented people during the evening, and camp …
Surf the Thanksgiving Break in Costa Rica!
We’re trading in our turkey dinners for casados, the national Costa Rican traditional meal of rice and beans (known as gallo pinto), salad, picadillo, and chicken breast. We’ll be upgrading our cranberry sauce to tropical fruit. But the most exciting part of this trip is obviously not the cuisine. We’re going surfing! We’ll be driving to Northern VA on the …
Whitewater Rafting: Upper/Lower Gauley
This year we have both Monday and Tuesday off for “Reading Days”… make the best of them by rafting the Upper AND Lower Gualey! This is going to be incredible! The Gualey River is located in West Virginia. Here’s what a former officer (Marc) had to say about it: “The upper Gauley is a world class white water mecca, and …
26th Annual Aldha Gathering
Update! This year’s schedule of events has been released. For a description of what events will be happening at this year’s ALDHA Gathering, please see: http://www.aldha.org/newsletr/07prog.pdf Has the thought of thru-hiking one of the country’s long trails ever crossed your mind? If so, join us at ‘The Gathering,’ an annual event held by ALDHA, the Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association. …
Beginner Camping and Service Project
Picture this: You’re on a backpacking trip and the rain has soaked through your pack and gotten the paper you wanted to use to start a fire all wet. You’ve strayed off of the trail and can’t find your way back to it because you’ve never really used a compass before, and you have no idea what all of those …
Intermediate+ Climbing at the Lake
To join this trip you should be able to climb 5.9+ outdoors. This time we are NOT going to the Orange Oswald area. The area will be most likely Long Wall (5.9+ to 5.12-) and DC Memorial Boulder (5.12+). We leave here Sat 7:00 and come back Sunday at about midnight. If the trip fills up quick please sign up …
Intermediate+ Climbing at the Lake
To join this trip you should be able to climb 5.9+ outdoors. This time we are NOT going to the Orange Oswald area. The area will be most likely Long Wall (5.9+ to 5.12-) and DC Memorial Boulder (5.12+). We leave here Sat 7:00 and come back Sunday at about midnight. If the trip fills up quick please sign up …
Intermediate+ Climbing at the Lake
To join this trip you should be able to climb 5.9+ outdoors. This time we are NOT going to the Orange Oswald area. The area will be most likely Long Wall (5.9+ to 5.12-) and DC Memorial Boulder (5.12+). We leave here Sat 7:00 and come back Sunday at about midnight. If the trip fills up quick please sign up …
Intermediate+/Advanced Climbing
To join this trip you should be able to climb at least 5.10 outdoors. Leave here Sat noon. Climb at Snake Buttress, home to infamous Discombobulated and Legacy. Then start early Sunday (about 7 AM). Go to the Beauty Mountain (Super Mario and the Brain area), on Sunday and leave there at about 5pm. If the trip is full when …
Beginner+ to Advanced Rock Climbing
The plan is simple: Leave here Sat noon. Climb at a relatively easy area (Tattoo most likely) for about two hours Sat afternoon. Then start early Sunday (about 7 AM). Go to a moderate-hard area (Beauty Mountain) on Sunday and leave there at about 5pm. There are a few 5.8s at the Tattoo and one 5.9 at the Beauty plus …
Intermediate/Advanced Climbing
The forecasters predict no rain for Sunday. But since it is going to be hot, I plan to climb at Kaymoor in the shadow side of the New River Gorge.fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun….. To join you should be solid at 5.9, outdoors. Please ask me if you had questions. We leave Sat. evening (bring dinner or eat prior to leaving, please) and come …
Intermediate+/Advanced Climbing
This weekends special is Endless Wall. To join you should be solid at 5.9, outdoors. Please ask me if you had questions. We leave Friday evening (bring dinner or eat prior to leaving, please) and come back Sat. night. now the forecsat is not so good. I may need to cancel the trip if it doesn’t get better. I will …
Intermediate+/Advanced Climbing at the New River Gorge
This weekends special is Kaymoor. To join you should climb 5.10, outdoors.Please ask me if you had questions. There aren’t easier bolted routes there except Fligt of the Gumbie (a long 5.9+ almost a 10- with a V3 boulder start). We leave Sat evening (bring dinner or eat prior to leaving, please) and come back Sunday night. club provides: climbing …
Dolly Sods Hiking/Camping/Backpacking for the Memorial Weekend
Dolly Sods is one of the most spectacular places nearby. If your school is over and your summer is still not started, lets do it from 3 days, 2 nights backpacking in Dolly Sods Wilderness. The place has more than 25 miles of trials from easy/moderate to ‘painful’. Our hiking plans will be settled on the group strength and wishes. …
Tent Workshop with Free Food!
Have you ever wondered how to pitch a tent, pack it, clean it, find a good location for it….? This workshop is recommneded if you intend to do backpacking, lead club trips, borrow club tents or to buy your own tent. We will quickly go over tents and differences like 2/3/4..people, symmetric/unsymmetric, light tents/ 3 season/ 4 season/ expedition tents …
Stove Workshop and Barbeque!
If you don’t know how to use a WhisperLite camp stove, here’s your chance to learn! We’ll head out to Walnut Creek and practice our stove-lighting skills. Once we have that mastered, we’ll cook up some delicious goodies that we’ll serve at the BBQ. Yeah for cookouts!
New River Gorgathon
TRIP CANCELLED, sorry
Sport Climbing Workshop
Want to learn how sport climb? We’ll head out to Summersville Lake early on Sunday and get a head start on the rest of the climbers. There are plenty of 5.7s, 5.8s, and 5.9s to work on leading. We’ll go over the basics of lead belaying, how to place quickdraws, clip the rope, fall, repell, and clean. This trip is …
Backpacking at Three Ridges (3 Times the Fun!)
Lots of scenic views to be had on this 13.1 mile circuit in the gorgeous three ridges wilderness. We’ll hike in a couple miles friday evening and sleep at the Maupin Field Shelter. Saturday’s hike will be spent atop the ridges for 6 miles with some moderate elevation changes. We can have lunch at Chimney Rocks after about 4 miles. …
Oceanside Camping with Wild Ponies
Join the Outdoors club for one of the best camping experiences you will ever have. We will be heading to the Assateague Island National Seashore http://www.nps.gov/asis/planyourvisit/marylandcamping.htm where the wild ponies roam! We’ll head out early Saturday morning and return on Monday. We will be picking up some firewood on our way into the park, so that we can cook our …
Trip Leader Workshop
At this workshop, we’ll talk about how to lead different types of trips, what to do about gear, how to handle trip expenses, what types of trips are allowed, and how to set trips up online. As an incentive to lead, we’ll reimburse your dues after leading four adventures. I’ve only reserved the room for an hour, so that’s the …