Hi guys! What better way to celebrate Earth Month than with a hike? The weather is so beautiful lately, and I know I’m not the only one who wants to get outside 🙂 This hike is a super easy 1.4-mile out and back to a beautiful waterfall. This hike is super good for beginners, so don’t feel intimidated to sign …
Enjoy high bridges? Need a kayak/whitewater gear? I need to go down to Farmville to pick up a new boat for the club! Figured I’d make a trip out of it and check out High Bridge Trail State Park just outside of Farmville. I haven’t been there yet but it looks pretty interesting, based on the name and a bit …
CAVE PROM! CAVE PROM! CAVE PROM! The most epic, fun, and easy cave trip out there! 4th years, your time has come to an end, and I know some of you have NEVER caved! That means you will leave your time at UVA and ODC without setting foot underground. As your lovely caving advisor, I must prevent that from happening. …
Hello ODC penguins! You know the drill. This Friday. Ragged. NO paddleboarding experience necessary. It’s gonna be GNARLY dude 🏄♀️. Schedule: 1:00PM – meet at Corner of Echols dorm and drive to Shrack 1:10PM – load up the paddleboards and drive to Ragged 1:30PM – arrive at Ragged and INFLATE💨!! ~🫧paddle around🫧~ 3:30PM – start heading back… 3:45PM – drop …
There aren’t many weeks left of school, if you wanted to come roll this semester, this is the time to 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). IF ADDED TO …
CALLING ALL BEGINNER MOUNTAIN BIKERS!!! Max and I are co-leading a chill beginner mountain bike trip on the ohill trails this TUESDAY! Here is the plan: we will meet at the shrack (116 Washington Ave) at 3:30, get bikes passed out and set up, and then head up to ohill around 3:45. We’ll ride for about an hour and try …
Have you wondered what you’re doing wrong on the wall? Do you want to climb with more women? Have you never tried climbing before and are wondering what it is all about? Well if you answered yes to any of these questions (or more) then COME JOIN ME for my WTF clinic on Wednesday! This is open to anyone, and …
Woohoo!!! Our last DEI (Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion) committee meeting of the semester. We’d love to have you join us as we wrap up a semester of trying to make our club more inviting and accessible for all who wish to recreate outdoors! We’ll meet at the Old Cabell steps from ~6pm-7pm. Bring your ideas, thoughts, and opinions (or simply …
What’s up ODC B-) There is truly nothing like a chill nature walk on a good ol’ Tuesday. Come join us and touch grass. timeline: 5:15PM meet at echols and depart 5:35 arrive at parking lot and start hiking! 7ish back at cars ~7:20 drop-off at Echols (or whever else) please bring: water shoe chew rat stick check dis: https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/virginia/ivy-creek-park-orange-peninsula-and-red-trail
Have you heard of the newest climbing craze? Send a route but only go sideways! Vertical gain is overrated, Horizontal lines get me elated Lets hit the commons sans belay! Traverse the southern perimeter of the contemplative commons with us! I feel like it’s a v4/5 (??) if you get all the way across. No crash pads, no falls (it’s …
⛰️🥾YOU 🫵WANT🫵TO🫵HIKE🫵⛰️🥾so join this trip and come hike the Jack Albright Loop with us (Katie and Paige) on MONDAY!!!! Mondays are mundane, mid, mildly depressing, meh, etc. etc. and so forth, so come MEADNER around the MOUNTAINS and make your next Monday MARVELOUS, MAGNIFICENT, MOMENTUS, and, dare we say, MAJESTIC! This is a very beginner hike, so all skill levels …
Hi! Missing out on Sprge this weekend but still want to get outside before the heat hits you like a closed-book paper and pencil midterm? Check out Calvary and Chimney Rocks Trail with me! It’s 3.2 mile out and back hike labeled moderate because of elevation, but it seems very doable and shouldn’t take more than 2 hours. Here’s the …
HELLO FRIENDS! This is our SPRGE redemption. You thought you wouldn’t have the chance to thrift and hike with us on Saturday. THINK AGAIN. I heard Charlottesville is the new Fayetteville anyway. Join us for a hike around Ragged followed by a trip to the thrift! THE PLAN: 11am meet at echols! 11-2 mosey (wander) around ragged oOoOOOooh 2-3:30(ish) we …
let’s go backpacking in the rain on Friday! It will not stop us. I want to practice making backcountry bread. I want to camp by a river. I’m also hoping to incorporate some nature connection activities! This will not be super physically strenuous, but it’s a good time to hone skills like setting up tarps, backcountry cooking, and keeping your …
Alana and I were on Sarah’s epic SUP trip down the Rivanna, and it was so awesome that we want to do it again! This is a fun, chill, really easy whitewater intro trip to whitewater paddleboarding! The water is a perfect temp, you see awesome wildlife like turtles, herons, bald eagles, and you can practice maneuvering rapids on a …
Hello goobers Come be feral with me on Ohill at night. This is for my capstone so I will ask you to take a quick survey before and after your experience. Themes for the night will be mystery, challenge and darkness. It’s a little wonky and a tad experimental, but if you are down to scramble around at night and …
Can you think of a better way to start off this upcoming possibly rainy and somewhat chilly Saturday than submerging yourself in moving water as other water falls on you from above? We couldn’t either! Join us for a wonderfully wet wake up in the Rivanna River followed by a tasty donut at Sbroccos! Here’s the plan: 7:45am – meet …
You want to learn how to mountain bike. You know how to ride a bike. You wish to ascend the highest mountain in charlottesville – Observatory hill (Ohill). You want to conquer the easiest green there is and shred down towards slaughter. You wish to tell your weird roommate how cool you are now that you have ridden Ohill. The …
Come on a mini backpacking trip in Shenandoah this weekend! It’s a 3 mile out and back in the southern corner of the park (so not too far from Grounds!) There’s some awesome views and it’s not a challenging route so it’s pretty beginner backpacking trip! (It looks like it may be cold and rainy this weekend, and if so …
Summer is coming but we’re still going to the pool! 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). IF ADDED TO THIS TRIP you must follow the directions in the followup email sent …
Hello potential birders. This Friday morning (postponed from rainy Monday) we will be looking at birds around Ivy Creek. We’ll hike slowly and stop a lot to observe. It helps to have binoculars—we have three extras—or maybe a fancy camera. If enough people join with personal binoculars/cameras we might expand the trip. Merlin Bird ID is a useful identification app …
Hello friends! Do you like fun? Then oh boy we have the trip for you! Join evelyn and skylar on a mystical journey where we explore the spring Fayetteville forest and then venture to town to hit the thrift, maybe eat some snacks, and embark on general shenanigans. this will be a chill relaxing 8ish mile hike that we will …
Have you never climbed with ropes before??? PERFECT!!! Alas, both of your trusty odc climbing advisers are injured. BUT THAT ISN’T STOPPING US (+ VIA!!) FROM TEACHING YOU TO CLIMB!! We are planning to go to Bridge Buttress which is a great crag for beginners with lots of lower-graded climbs (5.5-5.9). This trip will prioritize those who have never climbed …
Hello friends! My eyeballs hurt from looking at my computer for so long. I am sick of click-clacking away at my keyboard all day, then dreaming about saying something dumb in seminar, then waking up and doing it all over again. Anywhooo that was my long-winded way of saying that I want to switch it up. I think a great …
***NOT A REAL CERTIFICATION- WE ARE NOT PROFESSIONAL TRAINERS*** Ready to sharpen your outdoor climbing survival skills? Learn how to handle the most common climbing injuries you may face in the outdoors! We will cover a variety of topics, from how to care for blisters to spinal injuries, so you can be prepared for a multitude of injuries in a …
***NOT A REAL CERTIFICATION- WE ARE NOT PROFESSIONAL TRAINERS*** Ready to sharpen your outdoor survival skills? Learn how to handle the most common injuries you may face in the outdoors! We will cover a variety of topics, from simple cuts to spinal injuries, so you can be prepared for a multitude of injuries in a remote setting when help may …
Back at it again with another trip to the lower James River! The water and weather are really warming up now. This is also when the anadromous fish are starting to run up the river from the ocean to spawn so we’ll likely have plenty of osprey, eagle, and heron activity going on as well as fish potentially jumping at …
Hey y’all, After an (aborted) canyoneering trip in Moab, I’m looking to get back into rock climbing now that the weather’s warming up. Devil’s Marbleyard is a massive boulder field with plenty of fun scrambling and climbing – no ropes, just moving over rocks and picking your own adventure. And we get a wonderful view of the surrounding valley from …
Like Washington crossing the Delaware River we will be crossing the Ragged Mountain Reservoir, but instead of attacking the redcoats we will be attacking the Quantom Dot. This is a suoer beginner friendly trip for both canoeing and bouldering, but you MUST know how to swim. We will meet at the shrack and plot our battle plan of organizing soldiers(you) …
You know those kids that you see biking hands-free down mccormick? And they’re staring at their phone, or eating a sandwich, or doing their homework, and somehow simultaneously biking? If you see these people and think “wow that is the pinnacle of cool and i would give anything to be like them” then oh boy do we have the trip …
I once dropped a rat in my shoe Then out the top there came two They asked me to hike So I started to write And posted this trip for you -anonymous How inspiring. If that poem inspired you, come on a sunset hike with me and Angela tomorrow. If it didn’t inspire you, come hike and then read it …
Hellooooo people Come be feral with me at the Rivanna river. This is for my capstone so I will ask you to take a quick paper survey before and after your experience. It’s a little mysterious, perhaps a little funky and fresh, but I want you there this Thursday morning… for feral activities. We will be in and around the …
Hi everyone Come be feral with me at Ragged Mountain. This is for my ETP capstone so I will ask you to take a quick paper survey before and after your experience. It’s a little mysterious, perhaps a little wackadoodle, but join me this Wednesday morning… for feral activities. We will be around Ragged Mountain, not right at the reservoir. …
Drivers get priority off the waitlist!!! With several midterms behind me and many more ahead, I am in desperate need of a mental reset. With the weather FINALLY warming up, Pietro and I thought ✨why not have a little SUP party?✨ We’ll probably set up hammocks at some point and maybe check out a little of the surrounding natural area. …
Calling all printmakers/sketchers/crocheters/etc! Are you a crafty person? Do you have trouble making time to prioritize your art? Boy do I have the trip for you! For the first of hopefully many OCTO installments, we will find a beautiful spot on grounds (behind old dorms? the lawn? endless possibilities!) where we’ll devote some uninterrupted time to our respective crafts. I’ll …
The weather is beautiful. The flowers are blooming. The trees have leaves. You want to be a trip leader! Come learn how to lead trips for outdoors club…it’s never too late or too early. show up to Shrack 5pm wednesday Learn the ancient secrets 6pm become a trip leader
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Woah, waterfall rappelling!?! Oh yeah! I miss canyoneering in Moab, and what’s a better alternative than rappelling in multiple waterfalls?!?! Come join us to hike, rappel, and swim these beautiful waterfalls and have a sick vibey time!! ***PRIORITY to those on the canceled canyoneering trip in Moab *** **Need a second driver! You get priority!** Props to John for this …
Howdy! My legs are tired from a few too many weekend backpacking trips and the cville 10 miler so I want to slow down and chill out with queer people in ODC. The plan is a slow few miles, we can decide on the day anywhere from 3-5 at a very chill no-drop pace (think 9 min/mile to 11 min/mile). …
Hello friends! Are you feeling the weight of midterms on your shoulders? Screen time got you down? Wondering why every conceivable grocery store item must come wrapped in plastic? That one has been a big grievance for me recently. Well then…what might it look like to live a simple, sustainable life? Come join me on Saturday and meet some folks …
Calling all future shredders of Ohill. It is time to ride. Alana and I are itching to go riding with this amazing weather. Spring is SPRINGING !!! Come take a little jaunt with us and embrace the weather and enjoy the new bloomin’ trees! On the ride we will go over basic body position, braking, and everything to make you …
The weather is warming up! We’re getting back out to the James and other rivers! Over the weekend, I went out and paddled Kanawha Falls in WV and I will be doing a “how to paddle waterfalls” club trip there soon but you will need a really solid roll for that so come on out and get some practice! Here’s …
Hiiiiiiiiiiiii everyone!! To those of you who don’t know me, my name is Anna and I’ve spent my last 2 summers working on fly fishing lodges in Colorado and Alaska! I love to fish, albeit having only started 3-4 years ago now. I am by no means an expert, however… a couple seasons on the river and a couple pleas …
I sadly had to cancel my Alabama caving shenanigans for this weekend, but my SECOND favorite type of trip to lead is PADDLEBOARDING?!?!?! Saturday is supposed to be an awesome weather day, so let’s spend it outside on the reservoir messing around on paddleboards! I also recently found a Waboba in a cave (don’t ask) and have been dying to …
Do you really want to learn how to forage but don’t know how? Me too. Luckily, Virginia State Parks have a ton of cool outdoors programming that they offer year-round, including a free, guided foraging outing at Powhatan State Park this upcoming Friday (April 4th)! We’ll be joining a ranger (and maybe some friendly strangers who also want to learn …
Did you know magnolia petals are edible? This is not an April Fool’s joke! They kinda taste like cardamom, cloves, and ginger rolled around in dirt together (mmmmm appetizing). They can be used for all kinds of things — pickling, syrup making, and COOKIES. On this trip, I’ll pass on my recipe for magnolia petal gingersnaps. We’ll start at the …
CANOE KICK IT? If the answer is yes, you can, then you’re in the right place, my friend. Fun fact: ODC has canoes. Less fun fact: I have never seen them used in the three years I have been a member of this club. This trip will change that. Since Saturday is going to be so very warm, I thought …
Hi all! due to the forecast of sunsets and wild ponies this weekend (i.e. grayson highlands backpacking) our weekly wander will instead be on THURSDAY morning!!! :0 what better way to start your weekend (early) by climbing trees in the morning while the birds are singing. Think back to anytime you’ve looked at a tree on mccormick and thought “wow …
I love trees. I KNOW you love trees. Wouldn’t you like to see more of them? YES! Yes you would! The Rivanna Conservation Alliance is a nonprofit watershed organization that helps keep the Rivanna River healthy. As part of their Rivanna River Forest Health and Resilience Project, they plan to plant a total of 600 trees across 3 city and …
What’s up ODC!!! There is truly nothing better than a Humpback sunrise. Next Tuesday, let’s kick off April and celebrate April Fools!!! We promise it will be a great time😎 timeline: 5:30AM meet at echols and depart! 6AM arrive at parking lot and start hiking!! summit and sunrise @6:58AM !!! 8ish back at cars 8:20-8:30AM drop-off at Echols please bring: …
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 …