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 …
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 …
Let’s get CHILLY this LDOC with a happy morning cold plunge into the Rivanna. Here’s the plan: 6:30 am pick up 6:50 arrive at riverview 7:10 get to the SPOT and plunge for a few 7:45 am return to car 8:15 return home What to bring: swim clothing towel regular clothing shoes ? (idk mostly because on the way back …
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 …
Abstract: I’m trapped inside a tiny bottle. The air turns grim, and my vision is washed out, distorted through the surrealist blur of the glass walls that surround me. Everything I knew before this time was an illusion, deceiving me from what was most important in my time of existence. The effect of belonging. Belonging to the sea shells that …
OK I have plans the weekend of fall break but not on Monday or Tuesday so I decided I wanted to lead a quick little backpacking trip before we all have to get back to classes The plan is a one-night backpacking trip around Grayson Highlands in Southwest Virginia, the highest mountains in VA, which also happen to have wild …
**DISCLAIMER: You must be signed up for Creekathon to attend this trip 🐀🌳🌈** Have you ever listened to music? Have you ever heard a song? Have you perhaps ever picked up any instrument ever at all? Then you, yes, YOU, are qualified to come create some creeky beats with us at CRRRREEEEEKATHON!!!!!!!! Point is, there is no qualification to come …
CALLING ALL NEW MEMBERS! Hello friends. Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time (one year ago), Afton Moon Hessian and I, Pietro Michele Ciliberto, were first years. The world was large and scary and I couldn’t find my classes. You know what I could find though, without fail? The ODC adventures page. And it was on this …
420 years ago, the people joined hands and spirits at the heart of the universe…the ‘Nut. This year we will celebrate the dawn of time: the founding of Creekathon! The first creek to be creeked, the first hot dog to be dogged, the first barefeet to be barefooted. You, too, will see the first creekathon…in real time. You, young creekerthoner, …
This is NOT an actual SPRGE adventure. This is the CARPOOL for SPRGE. This is how the SPRGE leaders will keep track of drivers and attendees. DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS TRIP UNTIL YOU HAVE BEEN ADDED TO A SATURDAY SPRGE TRIP AND PAID THE TRIP FEE. MORE INFO BELOW. SPRGE TRIP LOGISTICS– READ CAREFULLY: HOW DO I GO …
The new construction by the woodrow apartments means that the original rock snake is no longer with us. 🙁 BUT WE ARE BACK because a new rock snake has been born on the opposite side of the street, and it needs your help to grow longer! Join me to paint some rocks in the gardens and rebuild the rock snake. …
Please join us for the ultimate paranormal experience filled with spooky sights and ghoulish delights! This trot is a 4.6-mile out-and-back sunset hike that includes the world-famous Blue Ridge Tunnel, which is famously haunted by the scariest ghouls in town. If we’re lucky, we might catch a glimpse of the mythical Greeksquatch, a local Crozet cryptid. Please be sure to …
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Are you stoked about leading trips but perhaps weren’t able to make a workshop earlier in the semester? OR maybe you saw the MOAB lottery announcement and want to lead trips to go to Moab during spring break! If you havent seen the announcement here is a link: GET READY TO GNAR (MOAB INFO PART 1) Well its your lucky …
Disclaimer: YOU must be off the waitlist for the Creekathon main trip to join Months ago I spent some time harvesting yucca (from a secret spot on grounds), boiling it, and stripping its outer layer. Now I have luscious yucca fibers that I want to share with yall on the best day of the year: CREEKATHON. Come make a bracelet, …
Why hellooo ODC friends!!! Did you just join ODC and want to learn how you can go on trips WHENEVER YOU WANT?? Have you enjoyed trips for a long time and are ready to spread the ODC love by creating even more trips!!??? Do you want your DUES REIMBURSED???? If the answer to these questions is yes, SIGN UP FOR …
It’s TIME for the first backpacking workshop of the year! YEEHAW Take advantage of this magnificent opportunity to discover the ✨art of backpacking✨. This Tuesday we’ll learn all about backpacking gear and skills in this specially made workshop for NEW MEMBERS and BEGINNERS. After this workshop you will know the basics of … – packing a backpack – setting up …
Hellooo dear friends!! Are you ever interested in what “sustainablility” actually means on the ground at UVA? Do you wanna meet some people at UVA doing sustainability work? Do you like inhabiting spaces with free nourishment for both your body in your mind? If your answer is yes to any of these, then the Office of Sustainability’s next Lunch and …
My dearest SPRGE rodentia, **PLEASE REFER TO THE SPRGE CLUB EMAIL (sent 2/27) AND READ THIS ENTIRE DESCRIPTION. THEN, FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS** THE FIRST ANNUAL SPRGE – New ODC Mega Trip! This is NOT an actual SPRGE adventure. This is the CARPOOL for SPRGE. This is how the officers will keep track of drivers and attendees. So make our lives …
There is a rock snake on JPA. It’s not too long, but we want to bring some folks together to add to it! Join us at 3 pm this Saturday to paint a beautiful rock, meet some new folks, and grow the snake. We’ll meet at the steps of Old Cabell on the South Lawn, meander to a lawn garden …
Shredders, senders, and aspiring desert sand frolickers, welcome to the last week of fall classes. Your reward: the glorious emergence of the most LEGENDARY, only ONCE an earth revolution, GNAR JOURNEY. We begin preparing now to rise from east coast hibernation and mass migrate to the land of canyons, red rocks, ultimate gritty-ness and cryptobiotic crust: MOAB, UTAH. Approximately 44 …
More Acro Yoga on the Lawn!! For those who aren’t familiar with acro, it’s a form of partner yoga that emphasizes trust in each other, often with poses that involve stretching, communicating, and elevating/being elevated above the ground. The poses can range from simple and easy to quite challenging. The plan is to meet on the Lawn at 8am, do …
beginning of the semester… long waitlists… too much time spent indoors in class (!)… Good thing we have another TRIP LEADER WORKSHOP coming in hot off the press this MONDAY! Whether you have been in our lovely club for quite sometime now and have decided that you are ready to be in charge of your own adventures now, are a …
Hi! I want to be Bob Ross. The weather is lovely recently, I love fall, and I think it goes well with Bob Ross. I have been wanting to follow a Bob Ross YouTube video for a while, and it is time to do this. Come join me at the lawn, I will be following along a Bob Ross video(at …
Hello to all you lovely ODC members! Are you passionate about service, sustainability, or DEI (diversity, equity, & inclusivity) within the outdoors? Do you want to get more involved with the club? Well, we have news for you! Much like a natural ecosystem, we believe that many parts of ODC are interwoven. We are merging our DEI / service-sustainability committee …
Hellooo ODC friends!!! Did you just join ODC and want to learn how you can go on trips WHENEVER YOU WANT?? Or maybe you’ve enjoyed trips for a long time and are ready to spread the ODC love by creating even more trips!!??? Do you want your DUES REIMBURSED???? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, SIGN …
Helloooo again outdoorslings!! Look what you made me (us) do. Evelyn and Jackie are back with another beginner outdoor hiking extravaganza. This time: its Taylor Swift themed!!!!!!!!!!!!! (that’s 13 exclamation points) While the queen didn’t respond to our request to join us this Friday (I think she’s busy in Atlanta?), we’re going to be meandering around the OHill trails again! …
Hey there ;)))))))))))))))))))))))) Are you sick of being on waitlists and not being on trips? Do you have cool ideas of ways to get outside with your friends? Are you generally competent at being a human being? Do you want your DUES REIMBURSED???? If the answer to these questions is yes, SIGN UP FOR THIS TRIP! This will be a …
Its a jam session down by the river. Ill pick you up. That is pretty much everything you need to know.
LISTEN UP FOLKS! It’s that time of year again. Time to make the winding journey down country (Albermarle county) roads to the place where dreams come true, where the sun shines forever, and where the Virginia red clay squelches abundantly. CREEK – A – THON definition: the most creeked, creeking creek-a-licious, creektastic, creek hangout, cookout, shredout, and headout of the …
1. Get up at butt crack of dawn 2. Be at echols 3. Run. We will only run as fast as the slowest can tolerate. Also we will be running around uva on the roads so we can accomodate a larger group.
Hey there ;)))))))))))))))))))))))) Are you sick of being on waitlists and not being on trips? Do you have cool ideas of ways to get outside with your friends? Are you generally competent at being a human being? Do you want your DUES REIMBURSED???? If the answer to these questions is yes, SIGN UP FOR THIS TRIP! This will be a …
Come join me at the esteemed Creekathon for some chill slacklining. If you have never slacklined before, it is basically just trying to balance on a piece of webbing that is anchored between two trees and then walking on it once you get your balance down. Absolutely no experience required and I will have the lines set up for pretty …
ok so this is deffos the trip that you’ve all been waiting for… THE FIRST TRIP LEADER WORKSHOP OF FALL 2021!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The waitlists are absolutely mf colossal right now and THIS TRIP is your chance to never be on a waitlist for a trip again! How? By leading your very own trippies! At this workshop we are gonna go through …
Hey, you there. Sup 👀. Ok cool, now that I’ve got your attention, you should come climbing next Monday morning with me at Slaughter. I’ll be there at 7:30 sharp and ready to make incremental progress on that annoying yellow route in the middle I can’t quite seem to get (hope they haven’t taken it down yet). Come thru 💯😳. …
So, this semester, wow. I think I have developed bad posture from all this computer time. I can tell you details about the bedrooms of classmates who I might not be able to recognize if I ever saw them in person. Today in my 6:30-8:45pm discussion, I totally checked out and just spent the rest of the class time with …
So you’re super stoked to get outside, and you can’t wait to SEND IT BRAH…..but… there’s a waitlist………oof………..yikes. Sad day. The BEST way to get around waitlists and start adventuring whenever you want is to LEAD YOUR OWN TRIPS!!! Trip leaders are the backbone of this Club (no lie), and leading your own trips allows you to truly choose your …
Come check out the 69th annual New River Cave Extravaganza! For this trip we will be camping overnight in the New River Cave. This cave has a good mix of open caverns, little crawls, and fun climbs. It’s about a mile long and has some really beautiful open spaces. We may possibly even see a waterfall depending on rain and …
So you’re super stoked to get outside, and you can’t wait to just SEND IT BRAH…..but… there’s a waitlist………oof………..sad day. The BEST way to get around waitlists and start adventuring whenever you want is to LEAD YOUR OWN TRIPS!!! Trip leaders are the backbone of this Club (no lie), and leading your own trips allows you to truly choose your …
We’re back bitches, and just in the nick of time. Yeah that’s right, it’s been a while since I’ve led or even been on a trip but I’ve decided to go out with a bang. That’s why I’m teaming up with fellow officer, trip leader, and future housemate Michelle Lovering to offer those of you with late exams the adventure …
Hi fellow adventurers! A co-founder of this glorious club is offering Disaster + Travel + Wilderness First Aid certification courses four times this spring in Cville. Hands-on learn how to save your compadre’s life and limbs, be y’all out adventuring in the wilderness, caught in a wrong-place wrong-time disaster, traveling remotely, driving through a rural area with no cellphone service …
Hey hey hey The club got a ton of new fly-fishing gear this semester, and lots of bugs are starting to hatch with all of this warm weather we’ve been having, so let’s get at it! If you have no idea what fly-fishing is, check out this cheesy but well-made short video that gives a pretty good taste of what …
[This is *not* an overnight course — it runs two days and ends at 6:30 or 7pm each day.] Learn how to save life and limb in an > urban disaster (natural or terrorist) > rural area (not near a hospital) > travel anywhere > wilderness area Outdoors at UVAers $25 DISCOUNT (for the dates of this adventure) off the …
>> “Best CPR/AED class so far. Resuscipalooza made it fun! Love the scenarios!” – anonymous feedback >> “The most action-packed three hour CPR class I’ve been to. You made it concise and FUN!” – anonymous feedback >> “Hooray! No video!” – anonymous feedback ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Learn the lifesaving skills of CPR, AED, and relieving choking (adult / …
Ahh, yes. A true classic. When your schedule is all over the place, there’s no better way to get your outdoors fix in on a tight time-budget than to bop on up to Bearfence in SNP to watch the sun come up! The hike is short but fun, the views are hard to beat, and with temps starting to warm …
If you’ve got those post-Moab withdrawals (I do) and just wanna keep sending it (forever and ever and ever), come hang out with me! Learn the ins/outs of trip leading with the Club so you can shred, shred, shred whenever you want. Trip leaders are THE backbone of this club (no lie), and the best way to start adventuring is …
It’s the week after Moab. You’re either gonna be going through adventure withdraw after a week of shredding on the daily OR you’ll have severe FOMO from seeing/hearing about all the sends from the trip. Either way, you’ll want to climb, so why fight it?? Let’s climb! I’m planning to send the Sunset Walls at Old Rag, which has a …
Calling only the most sendy of people. This trip is just too badass to pass up. We will be taking a long weekend and heading up to the great northeast on the adventure of a lifetime. There will be laughs, numerous bathroom breaks, all you can buy food, sailing, rock climbing, thrifting, and Boston Burger Co’s 420 burger! We will …
***DRIVERS NEEDED – drivers get priority off the waitlist and club reimburses drivers for gas +50% tip $$$*** I am in Clem 2 writing a paper on Dostoevsky right now that is due tomorrow at 11 am, and as interesting as that is, a sunrise is more enticing. Work this week has full-sent and I’m officially STRESSED so let’s get …
Are you going out to Moab and not quite sure what you need? THEN BINGPOT! THIS IS FOR YOU!! This is a workshop centered around going out to Moab and making sure that you are prepared for the awesome week of sending it in ways you never thought possible. What we are going to be going over: – What a …
So come join me for an awesome Friday afternoon climbing!!! We will be climbing for a while, so come prepared to get pumped! ALL SKILL LEVELS ARE ENCOURAGED!!! If you have never been then have no fear, I can show you the ropes and you’ll have a blast. Never climbed?? Waiver time!! (Fill this out if you have not been …