Announcements

Tree Climbing (Magnolia Edition!)

kylie holzman

Hello lovely people, If you’ve set foot outside this week I bet you’ve seen that the glorious magnolia in front of the Rotunda is in full bloom, and this means it is prime tree climbing time! Come decompress between classes this Thursday with me in a tree! The plan: 1:00pm – Meet at the tree and greet her 1:01pm – …

How to win friends and lead trips (Trip Leader Workshop)!!!

Sujith Panchumarthy

Do you want to go on trips WHENEVER you want!?!?! Do you want to spread the LOVE of trips by leading your own!?!?! Do you want your dues REIMBURSED!?!?! Do you want more ENTRIES to the fabled spring break Moab trip!?!?! If your answer is YES to any of these questions, this trip is for you! This Thursday, Anusha, Mitch, …

Friday Bird Watching at Ivy Creek!!

Jack Weinbrecht

Hello dirtbags! Join me and Claire Friday morning for some crisp Autumn birding! You don’t need to know anything about birds. We’ll provide binoculars and a bit of knowledge. Birding is a wonderful way to immerse yourself in the natural world, and I think it’s worth trying at least once. Ivy Creek has a bunch of nice trails and we’ll …

Tickets to the GnarLIEST TRAIN!!!!! (ANOTHA Trip leader workshop)

Grace Gray

HELLOOO FELLOW OUTDOORSING CREATURES OF THIS EARTH!!! Tired of watching longingly as trips come and go without you on them?? Perhaps the waitlist was too long, perhaps it didn’t work with your JAM packed schedule. Or maybe you just saw the trip description for Tickets to the Gnartrain and you thought, nah, what you need is even more intense….dare we …

NRGE 2023: MAIN CARPOOL

Shay Utzinger

My dearest NRGE geeslings, **PLEASE REFER TO THE NRGE CLUB EMAIL (sent 10/8) AND READ THIS ENTIRE DESCRIPTION. THEN, FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS** NRGE-ALICIOUS EXPIALIDOCIOUS 2023 (New River Gorge Extravaganza) This is NOT an actual NRGE adventure. This is the CARPOOL for NRGE. This is how the officers will keep track of drivers and attendees. So make our lives easier and …

Acro-Yoga on the Lawn!

Elli Welch

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 …

YOGA @ DA CREEEEEK

Parker Sims

Hello! Katie and I are oh so excited for CREEKATHON 23 and are hoping to enlighten you with our expansive yoga knowledge (i do not know how to do yoga). We are going to have a nice post-lunch stretch which will allow us to bask and digest at the same time in the most relaxing way possible. We are planning …

TRIP LEADER WORKSHOP!!!!

Evelyn Needham

Heyooooo! Are you battling the waitlist blues and want to get on trips? Do you have cool ideas of ways to get outside with your friends? Are you super cool? Do you want your DUES REIMBURSED???? If the answer to these questions is yes, SIGN UP FOR THIS TRIP! This will be a fun and silly walkthrough of every little …

GET CREEKED! (creekathon MAIN TRIP)

Marion Donald

CALLING ALL LITTLE SHREDLINGS! Come one, come all to Creekathon, A day of adventure, fun, and song. With a pavilion as our base camp, We’ll eat, hammock, slackline, and chill like champs. Trips will depart from our central ground, Paddle boarding, hiking, frisbeeing all around. Leaders, get wild, take charge of the day, Make memories that will forever stay. Food …

End of semester reflection at ragged + warm bevs

Emi Englander Fuentes

As the semester comes to an end, we thought it would be nice to do some mindful reflection! The (very loose) plan is: We’ll meet at echols at 9 and head over to ragged. Once there, we’ll disperse so each person can find their own special spot wherever they desire. After 25 minutes or so, we’ll meet up again and …

yoga on da lawn againnnnn

Misha Panda

Hi everyone! If you are looking for a great way to start your friday/weekend come join Hannah and I for a yoga on the lawn. You don’t need to have a large amount of yoga experience, just eagerness to learn and hang! Neither Hannah nor I are certified yogis but we would love to share whatever limited knowledge we have …

NRGE-aling

Emi Englander Fuentes

Goooooood moooorrrrniiiinnngggggg!!! if you wanna start off nrge with a BANG then join Chelsea and I for some early morning journaling/mindfulness meditation on Saturday!! We want everyone to be able to go on their respective trips for the day so we’re gonna try to time it before most things start! The timing is also flexible 🙂 PLAN: 7 (ish?) meet …

Building Super Gnarly Mega JUMPS

Billiam, Intergalactic Shred Lord, Prince of Dankness

Sadly, over the past few seasons the once-glorious OHill JUMP LINE has been worn away by the forces of nature. Towering, monolithic booters have dwindled to little nubs. The plan is simple: we shall rebuild, but bigggggger than ever before (slightly) We’ll meet up at the shred shack at 2:00PM, head up to OHill with our tools (provided), rake, dig …

NRGE 2019: Saturday Waterfall Hike + Rope Swing + Pizza

Andrew Dudzik

Howdy NRGE dudes, If anyone is looking for stuff to do Saturday afternoon come check out Glade Creek! It has several miles of secluded trails that follow a creek that feeds into the New River. About a mile up the trail is a sick rope swing over a waterfall. The plan is to leave from camp around noon, drive an …

Wilderness First Aid: Choose May 11-12; or May 15-16; or May 21-22; or June 15-16

Mateo Rosefsky

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 …

Cpr, Aed + Choking Certification Course ~ Adult, Pediatric + Infant

Mateo Rosefsky

>> “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 / …

Ye Ol’ Faithful – Bearfence Sunrise

Charlie Haywood

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 …

Let’s Get Astrophysical: Supermoon!

Chad Baily

My dudes!!! THERE IS A SUPERMOON COMING UP, HOW DOPE IS THAT?? Join me in being super hype about stars and the universe by watching the moon be super awesome. ~~ Here’s the Plan ~~ – 6:00 pm: meet at OHill – 6:10 pm: break open the box of OREOS that I am bringing – 6:15 pm: look in awe …

Beginner Bouldering Beta: Intro to Climbing at Slaughter

AJ Cuddeback

So you’ve been wanting to try out climbing but don’t have anyone to go with. No more! Join me and a few other beginner climbers in learning the ropes at the UVA Climbing Center. This is going to be pretty informal; I’m mostly just there so that you don’t have to get into climbing by yourself. However, I will be …

***Cancelled Because of Weather*** Here Comes the Sun! Come See!

Ester Rekhelman

***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 …

The Ultimate Moabian Seminar

Chad Baily

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 …

**Location Changed** Ye Olde Trip Leader Workshoppe

AJ Cuddeback

Even though I requested Clark 101 the Source gave me **New Cabell 323** (Trust me, I am just as upset about the distance as you are). Anyways, c’est la vie and e’re going to have a great time anyway!! ————————————– HEYO! Tired of getting stuck on waitlists? Wait no longer! The best way to get on trips is to lead …

Hammies and Jammies

AJ Cuddeback

Friends, Romans, Crunchymen, Save the date! The Friday forecast is looking fine and I’m throwing a pajama party to celebrate it. Here are the details: Who? You. What? Enjoying the last days of sun before next week’s rain. When? 2:30pm on Friday the 8th. Where? The triangle of grass across from the Corner Why? Because I said so. How? Set …

Bodacious Beach Backpacking 2 – the Seaquel

Charlie Haywood

Let’s go to the beach! Last year’s weekend beach frolicking was a ~rad~ time and a half on all fronts, so I went ahead and booked a few campsites so we can do it all again this spring. This will be a beginner backpacking trip through the Back Bay national wildlife refuge to False Cape state park, located at the …

Cpr, Aed + Choking Certification Course ~ Adult, Pediatric + Infant

Mateo Rosefsky

>> “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 / …

Trip Leader Workshop

Chad Baily

Do you have the boo-hoos about being on the waitlist?? Then come learn how to lead a trip! Leading trips is one of the best ways to meet more of the awesome outdoorsy folks here in the club and getting to try new things! SooOOooOOo come and spend part of your lovely Wednesday evening with me as I teach you …

>>>Moab, Utah 2019<<<

Billiam, Intergalactic Shred Lord, Prince of Dankness

THIS IS ABOUT TO BE THE RADDEST THING OUT THERE. There is but one ODC trip worthy of such a claim, and it is our annual pilgrimage the arid paradise of MOAB, UTAH. Approximately 40 of us will drive out to Moab for spring break to spend the week(ish) camping on the banks of the Colorado River and hiking, backpacking, …

Cpr, Aed + Choking Certification Course ~ Adult, Pediatric + Infant

Mateo Rosefsky

>> “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 / …

Workshop: Whisperlite Stoves & Lnt

Victoria Alvarez

Already planning your next outdoor trip? This could help. Come join me and We’ll go over how to set up the MSR Whisperlite stoves, how to clean them, and how to troubleshoot problems. We’ll finish off with the ethics of adventuring outside and Leave No Trace principles. To Bring: -yourselves (don’t forget this!) -a lighter if you have one -notepad? …

Waitlist Relief Stony Man Sunset!

Charlie Haywood

Picture this: Its 3am. You’re rotting in the stacks of Clem, studying for the 4 midterms you have in the next 3 days. You realize you are wildly unprepared. You watch the girl across from you take a swig of her doubleshot gingerbread latte, momentarily forgetting her impending doom. The two of you share a look of desperation. Panic sets …

Trick or Trip Leader Workshop: a Frightfully Good Time

Victoria Alvarez

Halloween is creepin’ up on us, witch means that you’ve got to figure out how you’re gonna celebrate the holiday. Our suggestion : treat yourself to an adventure and GET OUTSIDE! Scared to lead a trip? No worries. We’ll teach ya! The best way to get on a trip is to lead one. Come hang out with me and learn …

Best Waitlist Relief Ever: Trip Leader Workshop!

Victoria Alvarez

Tired of getting waitlisted over and over again??? Just wanna send it with other outdoor enthusiasts all the friggin time??!? The best way to get on trips is to lead ’em, folks! Come hang out with me and learn the ins/outs of trip leading with the club! ***If you’re new to the outdoors, sweet! No experience necessary. WHY??? (Psssh cuz …

Cpr, Aed + Choking Certification Course ~ Adult, Pediatric + Infant

Mateo Rosefsky

>> “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 / …

Odc First Party of the Year 8/31!

Allie Lowy

Fellow dirtbags, comrades, shredders, senders, lend me your ears: This is going to be LEGEN….wait for it…. THE SHRED SHACK EXTRAVAGANZA, THE OUTDOORSIEST OF THROW DOWNS, SIMULTANEOUSLY CHILL AND RAGING, THE FIRST ODC PARTY OF THE YEAR! Outdoors at UVA is throwing its first party of the year tomorrow at 10PM. There’s NO experience necessary to have a good time. …

Cpr, Aed + Choking Certification Course ~ Adult, Pediatric + Infant

Mateo Rosefsky

>> “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 / …

**Canceled** Hot Cocoa with a Bearfence Sunrise

Chad Baily

Canceled due to weather conditions 🙁 With some fresh snow on the mountains this week, we are looking at some prime sunrise hiking. Humpback has a silly road closure (and is incredibly icy) so this is possibly the next best thing. I also love hot cocoa on hikes so what better way to enjoy it then with the sunrise and …

Trip Leader Workshop

Victoria Alvarez

Howdy peeps, Scrambling for last-minute Valentine’s Day plans with your sweetie??? Don’t lie, we know you are. But that’s ok–we gotchu! Instead of just taking your S.O. on a V-Day hike (how borrrringgggg), you can learn how to LEAD one!! You can rack up those brownie points and lead an outdoorsy date, just the two of you……..plus 8-10 of your …

What Might Be the First Successful Bearfence Sunrise

Mason Goodman

If you’ve been up to date on what other trip leaders have been up to, you’ll know that not one, but TWO other trip leaders have attempted to venture up the Bearfence Mountain Trail to catch a glimpse at what glorious sunrise might be visible from its peak. And they both failed tragically. Now this is my first EVER sunrise …

Cpr, Aed + Choking Certification Course ~ Adult, Pediatric + Infant

Mateo Rosefsky

>> “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 / …

Cpr, Aed + Choking Certification Course ~ Adult, Pediatric + Infant

Mateo Rosefsky

>> “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 / …

Cpr, Aed + Choking Certification Course ~ Adult, Pediatric + Infant

Mateo Rosefsky

>> “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 / …