When I got back from spring break, I saw all the eastern redbud trees were flowering so now we can go foraging for their edible flowers! They taste similar to snap peas and go great on salads or made into jam. All you need for this trip is a container to hold the flowers, or you can eat them right …
Hi guys! The weather is GORGEOUS and what better way to celebrate than by jaunting around the O’Hill trails on a lovely Thursday afternoon. Spring has sprung and we can mosey around and look at all the new leaves and flowers!! ALSO: this week’s wander features the mystical hiking guru EMMA who is just now emerging from the depths of …
basically the title. Ok fine there is a little bit more to it than that. over spring break i realized i haven’t been to shenandoah since last year because of the stupid snow and ice and cold, but now its warm(er) and things are looking up. This friday is friday the 13th which is crazy because it is actually our …
It’s been a while since I’ve been east coast birding, and spring break proved I need to get my head back in the game. Thankfully Charlie is a local expert in avian ecology and will be a guest speaker on the trip, so make sure to hang onto his every word to be enlightened about birds. Bring some binoculars if …
Welcome back from Spring break, because it’s time to get back to bonfires and hikes with ODC! This hike will be at the Ohill trails, around 2 miles, and will be a lovely COLLAB sunset hike with LovEd and the Queer Student Union! After the hike, we will have a lovely bonfire in the backyard of the Shrack! This hike …
Hi all!! Are you shocked at how quickly spring break arrived? Does the swift passage of time concern you? if so, join me for an hour this lovely Wednesday afternoon (high of near 60 degrees!!) and take a moment to reflect on the semester/life in general and journal in the gardens. feel free to bring yourself and a journal (optional) …
Greetings weekly wanderers! ‘tis Loreley and Lizzie, taking Evelyn’s place this week since she has been swamped with work, just as we are about to be literally swamped with a 60% chance of rainfall thursday evening. We are availing ourselves of this opportunity to get a little fresh air, a little mud, and a little poetic expression into our systems. …
Within George Washington National Forest passes this segment of the Appalachian Trail, The Priest. More of a workout than the average hike, this summit is 9 total miles with 3000 feet elevation gain. I anticipate it will be about six hours of hiking, alongside an hour drive there plus the hour back. I have read that this summit features a …
Historical Info: Though this hike may seem unassuming, (very) local legend has it that philanthropist Jean Beauregard (Jombo) buried half of his inheritance in them there hills of Crozet, VA. Nobody knows for sure where ol Jombo buried it, but residents/oldheads tend to think the most likely spot is in the mountains near Mint Springs Park. This hike takes us …
Hi all! What better way to celebrate the suddenly-not-freezing weather than with a little jaunt on the ohill trails? This week’s wander is back to the basics (in part because it’s somehow already Thursday) so we’ll just mosey around the trails and enjoy the sunshine and celebrate nature on a nice Friday afternoon. Come join! This is part of the …
Hello hikers! The DEI committee is doing a collab hike with Black Girls United. This club aims to foster mentorship and bonds among 1st- and 2nd-year African-American women. Last year we did a collab hike with them, and it was a super fun time, so we are running it back! We are hoping to do the Humpback Rocks hike, but …
Hi all! Are you so stoked that we still have this ice/snow/slush mix everywhere? Katie and I are! To celebrate, we’re going to go to Ohill and teach you the art of cardboard sledding. This is an extremely elite and exclusive sport and Katie happens to be a cardboard-sledding guru so this will be a grand old time. Come get …
Hello frigid folks!! Everyone needs a little shock in their system, but maybe you (yes you, the reader) are not crazy enough to do one of the billion polar plunge trips right now. Those guys are nuts, but we? We are chill and shall be a little chilly… at OHILL (Ohill…Ohill, ohill.. *echo). Come with the legendary Gabe Cohen and …
The snow….is melting…. sort of… SO… this calls for a (VERY CHILL (and chilly)) wander around the O’hill trails. I would absolutely love to go to Shenandoah for a beeeautiful snowy hike this Friday, but my car….is stuck…in the ice. A lot of ice. Too much ice. So until it gets a bit warmer, we will be showing O’Hill some …
You know what I love? Canoes. You know what I love even more? Overnight canoe trips. And you know what I love the most? The Boundary Waters, one of the most beautiful and epic and fabulous wilderness areas in the United States which is ALSO an International Dark Sky Sanctuary! *Please read the ENTIRE trip description to get the answers …
BRRRRRRRR. Yeah so its been a bit chilly recently. However this is prime icicle weather and so we are going to go look for and get some cool photos of icicles. I was originally planning to do this in shenandoah but skyline drive will probably not reopen until june at this rate so we will pivot to thomas jefferson’s academical …
Hello Hello howdy howdy howdy Cold. Feet. Cold feet? Don’t worry, cold is just a feeling, frostbite is merely just a sham made up by Big Pharma. Anyways, come to Humpback with Ben and myself and prepare for a lovely and slightly chilly Thursday afternoon hike. It will be awesome. It will be cool. It will be absolutely extravagant. Anywho. …
Do you like rocks? Devil’s Marbleyard is a lesser known gem, just an hour drive away from Cville. Millions of years in the making, the side of this mountain includes an eight acre field of boulders that I intend to summit. Alongside the sloped rock slide winds a trail that will make the walk down quite a bit easier than …
Hi all! Have you been to the gardens before?? really? all of them? if you haven’t (or if you have) join Haley and I on Thursday afternoon to frolic in the snow and enjoy the sparkling winter beauty of the gardens!!! we plan to mosey around and build snowmen / igloos/ fairy houses (!?) and have a grand old time …
Ladies and gentlemen you’ve seen the weather, we’ve seen the weather, our local clairvoyant Jennifer (J.J.) Wagner Davis has also seen the weather ❄️ Class on monday will be on zoom and everyone knows this is a special kind of torture so skip your last class and join us for a snohill snunset snowvaganza ❄️ the sun will be hopefully …
With all the incredible amounts of snow forecasted for this weekend, what better way to enjoy it than to go down steep hills very fast and barely in control! We will be going to either Mad Bowl or Washington park if the roads are in drivable condition. If you have sleds or sleddable object, bring them! If not, you can …
Calling all people who have ever been confused about where the gear room is!!! (should be everyone in odc). This week we are wandering to the mystical wonderful GEAR ROOM to learn exactly how to get there from first-year dorms, and how to navigate the stash of incredible gear that is FREE AND ACCESSIBLE TO YOU* (*if you are a …
Come look at birds at a much more comfortable time of day (evening) than normal birding trips (*cough,* Jackson)! The fun part about this is that I probably know less about birds than you do, so I will not be correcting you on how this boring brown bird is different from that boring brown bird. We can still identify and …
Hi all, Start your first week off right with a little ohill meander with me and ben! we’ll mosey around the trails Friday afternoon and enjoy the nature. PLAN: meet in front of slaughter 3:30pm wander around for an hour, enjoy sunshine 4:30pm part ways BRING: yourself water(optional)
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After a break full of idleness and general lazing about, I’ve been feeling the urge to go do something adventurous. Come with me and Loreley to the Blue Ridge Tunnel, a historic tunnel carved into mountains that was once part of the blue ridge railroad. This hike is open to all skill levels- the trail is about 3 miles, pretty …
Oh hey nova/dmv friends…Let me guess, you are so happy for finals to be over and to be back in the comfort of your home…but I can tell you are already missing the joys of the outdoors, and wondering when the heck you are going to go on a hike. However, fret not, as Gabe and I have planned a …
Are you feeling worn out? Are you exhausted from finals? Have you been worn-ragged?? Well frolicking experts Ben and Gillian are here to help you stop locking in and start being happy again! Come hike old ragged to see the sun set on another successful week of work! We will keep a relatively brisk pace, like walking with a purpose. …
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Guys idk about you but these exams are KILLING me. I need to touch grass and rocks and dirt and basically anything that’s not physics. If you also do not like finals you should totally come to Devil’s Marbleyard with me n Miles! The rough plan is to meet at 9, drive there (a little under 2 hr drive), hike …
Classes are finally over, and my brain is officially fried. If you also need a desperate break from studying and staring at screens, come join me for a day in the mountains! We’ll be tackling the Riprap Trail, a ~10-mile loop with roughly 2,100 ft of elevation gain. It’s the perfect way to clear your head and celebrate surviving the …
Howdy all! Finals getting you down? join me and stevie for the last weekly wander of the semester!! we’ll mosey around ohill and enjoy the crisp winter air (high of 46 wednesday!) to stretch our legs after sitting in the library forever. we may even venture to the secret rock. join us and refresh your brain! PLAN: 1:30 meet in …
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I got a new national park pass as a very late birthday present/early christmas present and now I’m in the mood to spread some holiday cheer. Don’t worry we won’t be caroling but we will channel our inner santa (if you’ve got a santa hat bring it) and descend to chimney rocks in shenandoah this sunday. This is a pretty …
Surprise its me max! Evelyn has sadly been taken hostage by assignments so I am subbing for her this week (don’t worry she will be back soon). It is a bit of a gloomy time of year with finals looming and sunshine lacking and temperatures dropping. however, I’ve been doing my best to practice gratitude when I can and I’d …
Short, sweet, and STEEEEP. Bucks Elbow Mountain. Crozet. Come experience the legendary Crozet Classic, Carlos, a 2-mile up, 2-mile down beast. With about 2,000 feet of gain, its mostly a hike on the way up and a skid, slide, and soar on the way down. Despite the difficulty, this trail run is open to all people up for the challenge. …
Moo moo moo moo moo Moo moo moo moo moo moo moo Moo moo moo moo moo That is what a haiku would sound like if a cow wrote one. Woah…. speaking of cows, we had the most fantastic idea probably ever thought of ever. Imagine you are scrolling on Facebook marketplace in your global sustainability class and you see …
Enthusiasts of nature, lovers of life, dirtbags, rats, and slugs: this is what you’ve been waiting for all semester. Behold, the most epic, only ONCE in a pretty regularly-timed revolution of the earth around the sun GNAR JOURNEY. We’re awakening from our East Coast hibernation, crawling out of our dens, overstuffing cars with loose bagels, and migrating to the ultimate …
greetings all. as the days grow shorter and the nights grow colder, and the end of the semester looms larger, the time is nigh to let loose your free whimiscal spirit and imbue your soul with light and joy. what better way to do this than with DANCE??? on this fine friday afternoon at 2:30pm, join me and skylar (guru …
Maybe this fall you went paddle boarding with Gabe and I and experienced first hand our hot chocolate failures…Or maybe you have heard through the grapevine our tales of jet boil shenanigans….Or you have no idea what I am talking about but you are intrigued. Hypothetically, Gabe and I may have had to buy a new jet boil for ODC, …
Hi all! Do you see the backpacking trips up on the website but find yourself afraid to sign up because backpacking is a terrifying unknown concept? Do you find yourself thinking “man i wish i could go on these splendid looking backpacking trips but i have no idea what a backpack is or what to do with it?” If so, …
Sign up for the trip after signing up here: https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10C0548AFAA22A7F8C25-58996149-friends If you have any problems signing up text me (Alex): 7038011757 We’ll leave around 7:45am from Echols Arrive at Weems and 10am-12:30pm: Friends of the Rappahannock needs help bagging clean oysters that will help grow oyster reefs along Coastal VA. FOR staff will guide you through the process of creating …
The weather this Sunday is going to be pretty amazing and the skies seem like they are going to be very clear so what better way to spend your Sunday afternoon and evening than hiking, watching the sunset, and stargazing. Join me on a journey to the highest point in Shenandoah national park where we will view breathtaking views of …
*Note: This will be my first run of this specific trail. Hi All! What better way to spend your Sunday than day hiking a trail commonly done over 2 days? This is a 14.8-mile loop with 3,900 ft of elevation gain, so it will be VERY exhausting. This trail is renowned for its Appalachian Trail vistas and waterfalls along the …
Summiting Old Rag is practically the single standing pillar holding up Virginian hiking. Nothing else in this state compares, Western mountaineers laugh when they see something labelled less than a “14er” but I laugh back watching them melt into jello anytime they step into east coast humidity. Now that the heat is gone, the revelation was whispered to me in …
So it’s been almost three months since I’ve been here, and I’ve yet to take a trip into the main part of the Shenandoah National Park. This trip seeks to remedy this large pitfall of my fall planning. A newfound desire to get outside and enjoy the sunlight in these colder and shorter days has me wanting to spend the …
So you’ve held a rock before. Maybe you’ve even rock climbed before. You’re not enticed enough to start licking rocks so you’re not a geology major, but that lingering feeling that you need to go hands on with your hike is shining through your heart and today might just be the first time you’re hearing about the grandpa of all …
TLDR: basically having an O Hill hike art party with great vibes and you should totally come spend your Sunday afternoon with me Okay, I’m going to need you to walk with me here… Imagine this: you move in, it’s September, you tell yourself you’re totally going to decorate your room…soon. And then all of a sudden, the leaves have …
hey folks Do you like breathing in the morning air? Niko and I will be taking a nice morning walk on the trails of ohill and such. Come chill with chill folk like me and NIKO. This should just be a quick nice pre-class activity. Please join us! PLAN: Meet at corner of echols at 6:57 AM I guess Walk …
HOO! – Says the hoo looking for you to join our beginner birding trip! We love birding and want you to love it too, so let’s set out on a journey to find some feathered friends! This is a beginner trip, so people with no experience are encouraged to join! If you’ve ever even considered how cool birds are, join …
Has this chilly fall weather had you in the mood for a beautiful early morning hike? Well, I sure have been needing to get outside! Come out for a sunrise hike to humpback this Friday! A great way to start your weekend and a good pre football game activity. It’s gonna be a earlier one, because sunrise is around 6:46 …
Hilll!!! Oohhhh HIIiillll!!!! Hello? Oh! Hill! Hey guys, we are hiking Ohill trails and we want YOU to join us. Have some crazy weekends? Had a crazy election day? Talk about random stuff with some cool folks and enjoy the wonderful natureous trees and dirt (maybe a worm or two). This will just be a small outside stroll to get …