In honor of the nice, cooler weather early next week let’s go for a runnn!!! We’ll run around and explore the Ohill trails. The pace will be chill and we can take breaks to plot which trail we want to explore next and admire the view. Bring: running shoes
**DISCLAIMER: You must be signed up for Crawkathon to attend this trip 🦞** Yay crawkathon this friday Walnut Creek park (AKA the nut) has a bunch of hiking trails and I have actually only been on them once, on a Geocaching trail running trip that I think is best not repeated. We will go for a little stroll leaving the …
Hi all! The leaves are green and the birds are chirping and the weather is warm and it is time to get out and sleep in the woods. AKA time for some chill beginner backpacking!!! This Friday-Saturday, join Loreley & I (evelyn) as we embark on a journey to St. Mary’s Wilderness, which neither of us have ever ventured to …
1. Admission: acknowledge your powerlessness against the incessant littering problem plaguing the corner 2. Hope: believe that little old you may actually have to power to create change 3. Surrender: decide to submit yourself to the cause 4. Self-examination: look within. what inspires you? how can you improve? what has lead you here? 5: Confession: be honest. we have all …
Back again with another kayak roll pool session, it doesn’t matter if you’ve never touched a kayak before. Come learn to roll, learn flatwater tricks, and have a good time splashing around in the water! Learn to roll now so you’ll be prepared for trips to the James and all the other exciting places we will go! For an idea …
HELLO WE WILL MAKE DECORATIONS AND PHOTO BOOTH ITEMS FOR MORP! You MUST join the creekathon first to join this trip. Morp is on Saturday, 4/18, and Creeekathon is Friday, so that means it will be perfect to make MORP decorations at Creeekathon, so we can take epic pictures with little ODC cutouts! I will be bringing Cardboard, scissors, paint, …
Another sitting trip as my foot heals! Let’s go to azalea park and do some anthotype and cyanotype prints, basically using the sun to get an impression of whatever you put on the paper. you are also welcome to do independent doodling or journaling or whatever you want. I’ll bring the supplies for the sun prints, you bring some paper …
Hi all! A few wanders ago we stumbled upon a mysterious QR code note next to a beautiful tree in Garden 9. It said “Tim’s Trees.” Naturally, we investigated. Upon scanning the QR code, we discovered a hidden treasure awaited — environmental guru and professor Tim Beatley set up a scavenger hunt of 10 beautiful trees across grounds! (disclaimer: i …
Back by popular demand, another stargazing trip to one of the best stargazing spots on the East Coast — Highland County! There’s not a light for miles near this mountain valley, which means zero light pollution. The sky’s set to be mostly clear on Sunday (~20-25% cloud cover is the estimate I’m seeing right now, subject to change maybe), and …
Hey hey hey time for another collab, but this time with JMU! We will be going to one of my all-time favorite caves, Lowmoor! This was an old Iron mine in the late 1870s-90s that broke into an actual cave. Huge rooms, lots of wildlife, beautiful formations, ancient cave graffiti and fossils, and so much more. This is also a …
What better way to spend a sunny afternoon than chilling in a hammock with a good book? We will meet on the lawn and then head over to a super awesome hammocking spot, where we will hang out and read and snack on chocolate! We will bring: hammocks, chocolate You bring: book! (This is the same hammocking trip as before, …
New vocab word – “Antepenultimate” Third to last. This is the antepenultimate roll session, you should sign up! Come learn how to roll, practice your roll, or learn some crazy new tricks! Here’s a little video I put together on what to expect from a pool session and some things to learn (youtube.com/watch?v=Gz-QZ2jAlH4). ODC, in collaboration with UVA Outdoor Adventure, …
Wanna go hiking? Wanna go hiking with our good friends and another awesome club? Wait, that club is Black Girls United? ohhh shooottttt! This is a DEI collab hike with BGU! This hike will be super beginner-friendly and about 4 miles out-and-back. It will be such a lovely landscape as spring flowers blossom. This hike is for everyone and welcome …
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Have you been putting off signing up for birding because it’s too early in the morning? Well here’s your golden opportunity to wake up at 6am and start ignoring your poor sleep schedule! We’ll be back for people’s 9:30s. Alex is the avian ecology expert this week, and will gladly inform you of whichever species’ call we are hearing at …
IT’S FINALLY WARM!!! yayyyyyyyyy. while i wish i could be hosting some super crazy pants sufferfest trips, it appear my body has other plans. so let’s do some SITTING. bring your art supplies, instruments, poetry etc, and come hang out with me for a very resting heart rate afternoon in the sun. i will probably be doodling and might even …
hi all! spring is springing and the flowers are in peak bloom. what better way to start off your friday evening than wandering around the uva gardens at golden hour and admiring all the flowers? join alana and I to celebrate this beautiful season at sunset and let’s frolic in the beautiful weather!! this is a pretty open-ended trip; all …
****THIS IS THE MAIN CARPOOL SIGN-UP FOR CREEKATHON, SIGN UP HERE BEFORE SIGNING UP FOR MINI TRIPS**** A trickle down stream You look in its beady eyes And then realize IT’S FINALLY TIME FOR THE FIRST OFFICIAL CRAWKATHON!!!! You may ask, what separates this day from a normal bi-annual Creekathon? Well, it’s National Crawfish Day, aka National Haiku Day, aka …
Back with another roll session! Come get ready for paddling trips coming up this spring! Come learn how to roll, practice your roll, or learn some crazy new tricks! Here’s a little video I put together on what to expect from a pool session and some things to learn (youtube.com/watch?v=Gz-QZ2jAlH4). ODC, in collaboration with UVA Outdoor Adventure, has been allotted …
What if… There was an absolutely flambunctious (flamboyant, ambitious, rambunctious) rapid under the New River Bridge? YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE IT… THERE IS!! Before you read any further, you must know that anything you’ve ever been told about paddleboarding is wrong. You see, if you dig through the depths of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and search up the definition of paddleboarding, it …
Magical, musical hike during the magical, musical SPRGE! Join me for a riveting adventure: scouring all of Fayettesville for music (who knows where it could be hiding? at a store? on the ground? in my bag? in your soul??) and then taking our newfound music to Stone Cliff Trail (~5.4 miles) where we’ll make endless music in honor of the …
Hellooooooooo SPRGE-ers, The bikes, after their long post-Moab hibernation, are once again ready to shred. They are done with the Rocky Mountains and yearn for the beautiful utopia we call the West Virginia Appalachia. The plan is simple. We wake up. We shred. We feast. We sleep. If you’ve never mountain biked before, don’t fret, we will be going to …
Hellllllllo ODC Wanna ride a bike? Wanna learn to bike? nice. Join our trip. we’ll start with peddling and then go down massive hills and backflip off cliffs etc. jk but you get the gist. The plan is to go to ohill and bike around for 1.5 hrs or so and then be back at the shrack nice happy and …
Join me and Ethan to consume magnolia flowers this Thursday. We will be foraging them on the lawn and then heading to my apt (5 min walk) to make magnolia lemonade and perhaps magnolia snap cookies. The flowers taste like ginger kinda. If that sounds yummy you should meet us on the lawn at 3pm! We are aiming to wrap …
My original ODC shenandoah trip was to the cavalry and chimney rocks trail a whole year and a half ago. It’s one of my favorites but I haven’t done this trail in what seems like forever because every time I’ve planned to lead a trip there skyline drive has closed at the last minute and made me very sad. the …
Back again with another kayak roll pool session, it doesn’t matter if you’ve never touched a kayak before. Come learn to roll, learn flatwater tricks, and have a good time splashing around in the water! Learn to roll now so you’ll be prepared for trips to the James and all the other exciting places we will go! For an idea …
Hi all! exams and semester craziness got you down? join me and stevie for some sit spotting this Friday afternoon! What is a sit spot, you ask? it’s the magical art of walking into the woods, finding a nice spot, and sitting there. This is a common practice to calm your brain, slow down your day, and enjoy time in …
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: PAYPAL LINK: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=TMFYZWLD6ALRQ HOW …
You read that right… a 5k that never ends. Sounds too good to be true, I know. But IT’S HAPPENING. THIS SATURDAY. 9 am. Hereford Lawn. Be there or be square. The Endless 5K is an endurance challenge modeled after backyard ultramarathons: runners have one hour to complete a 5K loop along the O’Hill trails and return to the start …
GET EXCITED FOR A MORVEN COLLAB!!! We are working with the Morven Sustainability Lab to have the first bioblitz hike on Morven’s ridge!! A bioblitz is an intensive, time-limited biological survey that brings together scientists, students, and community members to document all identifiable species within a defined area. Using the iNaturalist app, participants contribute geotagged plant, animal, bird and insect …
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Have you been enjoying the lovely ups and downs of Virginia weather lately? Has it influenced you to get outside, either by skiing or sunbathing? Come learn the secrets of trip leading at the Shrackyard! This workshop will give you the ability to lead trips and impart upon you the skills and knowledge to do so. Get hype! schedule 3:30pm- …
The weather is warming up and the fish are starting to bite! Let’s welcome the Spring with a nice fun easy beginner fly fishing trip (and also superduper fun little walk)!! No fly fishing experience needed but you will have to be pretty good at walking! The club has some fly rods so we’ll be taking those out to try …
Back again with another kayak roll pool session, it doesn’t matter if you’ve never touched a kayak before. Come learn to roll, learn flatwater tricks, and have a good time splashing around in the water! Learn to roll now so you’ll be prepared for trips to the James and all the other exciting places we will go! For an idea …
Greetings everyone! We have VERY EXCITING NEWS. After countless years of rivalry and hatred, UVA and Virginia Tech are finally becoming friends. We know what you’re thinking: heavens to betsy! How is this possible? Well, folks, it began with a dream. One day, Evelyn and Haley thought: what if tech people are just like us? what if they also like …
Hi all! So last week we were supposed to have a beautiful sunny gallivant around the ohill trails… and then crazy snow/rain/hail(?) had other plans. So this week we’re back at it!! The wonderful Emma is joining us (emerging from the depths of basketball season to return to ODC) and we’ll mosey around the trails on what should be (this …
so remember how last week we went from 80 degrees to snow in 24 hours? Well get ready for round 2. If you’ve seen the “12 seasons of virginia” thing it really needs to get updated because we’re now looking at a third winter, with severe storms on monday followed by more cold (temperatures at only 40 degrees) on tuesday. …
The Easter Bunny is great and all but what about a REAL animal. Instead of eggs, they drop large loads of feces. Similarly to the Easter bunny, you can’t touch them or they explode (at least I think that’s the way the Easter bunny goes). It’s GRAYSON HIGHLANDS Y’ALL! PLAN: FRIDAY NOON meet at echols drive 3.5 hours (eat lunch …
The warm weather has brought farming back to my mind. I want to head on back down to Morven and get some work done. In the great and wise words of Sofia: “The backbone of our American society is those who engage in the callus-making, sweat-producing, no-sissies-allowed hard work through which we make all attempts to divert from the fact …
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 …
We are going to two caves in one day! New Trout Cave is an old saltpeter mine from the Civil War and very, very dusty (we will provide masks, or you can bring your own). Hamilton Cave is a maze cave. This is a beginner/intermediate trip, which means you are not required to have gone caving before. However, you should …
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 …
Hello my fellow WTFs (women, trans, and femme)! Have you been wanting to learn how to mountain bike but haven’t had the time, felt overwhelmed or intimidated by the idea of this wack ahh sport, or just been wanting some more time with gal pals? Well fret no more– join me this Friday morning for a beginner OHill mtn bike …
Hellooooo aspiring shredders of O-Hill!! It has been o-so long since the bikes have touched o-hill soil, and they NEED your help. Caked in dust, must, and hopefully not crust, they’ve travelled far and wide, passing by more Buc-ees billboards than one could fathom. They LONG for o-hill, help me rid their homesickness by learning how to mountain bike on …
Are you tired of having rope rubbing on your face while cruxing out? Do you wish your failures resulted in an enormous fall instead of just a gentle swing unnoticed by your belayer? Do you want to put up routes for your friends to climb? Come learn to lead climb. This Sunday we will take two lucky individuals to Hidden …
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 …
The rope juice is running low and I am thirsty… Our ropes are dirty and sandy. They will wear out much faster because they are filled with grit yum. Let’s wash them. Also one of them is core shot oops so I will cut it if anyone wants to learn how to do that. Also I am going to sort/ …
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 …
We’ve made the successful journey back from Moab to springtime weather here in VA! It’s almost time to start paddling every spare second but we still have the pool to help make sure we’re ready! Come learn how to roll, practice your roll, or learn some crazy new tricks! Here’s a little video I put together on what to expect …
spring is beginning to be sprung! you want to lead trips!!! It’s time for another trip leader workshop! come enjoy the lovely weather in the shrackyard on wednesday while you learn how to be a trip leader!! it will be so awesome and epic we are psyched out the dome show up to Shrack 5pm wednesday Learn the ancient secrets …