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General Meeting 11/3 – How to be Outside and (not) Cold!
Hey NUHOC!
It is now November which means that winter is here to stay in the Whites and is just around the corner in Boston. If you’re like me and love hiking and being outside but are ALWAYS COLD !!! you don’t want to miss our meeting this week in 220 Behrakis, Wednesday night at 7:30 PM. We’ll have an interactive presentation by some of our members on how to stay warm outside even when the temperatures plunge! Signups will also be taken for wood moving and Open Loj coming up this weekend. See you there!
General Meeting 10/27! ~~~spoOOOoKYY~~~~
Hey NUHOC!
It’s spooky season and if you want to join in on the Hallowork weekend fun this weekend (10/29-10/31) you had best be at our general meeting this Wednesday, October 27 at 7:30 PM in Behrakis 220. We’ll do our announcements and trip signups and then head to the quad for our annual Halloween pumpkin bash!
ALSO: if you’ve been to a meeting or the Loj at all or gone on any of our trips we would LOVE to have your stories, poems, photographs, word searches, crosswords, and artwork about NUHOC featured in our yearly newsletter, Excelsior! Submissions can be sent to nuhocexcelsior@gmail.com.
General Meeting and Climbing Trip 10.20!!
Don’t miss out on an exciting meeting this week! We’ll be meeting in our usual Behrakis 220 on Wednesday 10/20 at 7:30 PM, do a quick introduction and then we will be making a group trip to go rock climbing using the punch cards you get along with your $10 membership! One group will take the T and another will bike to the gym. Make sure to bring your CharlieCard/T money and your Husky ID (if you have a NUHOC membership card, you can bring that too).
If you don’t have a NUHOC membership card you are still welcome to come, and you can still climb by purchasing a day pass at the gym. Everyone who’s purchased a membership card also gets two free punches so you can bring a friend if you want too.
We’ll also be taking signups for Open Loj this weekend (10/22-24) pending an opening LC. Hope to see you there!
General Meeting 10/13!
Hey there NUHOC!
Hope morale is as high as it is for us after NUComers! It was a great weekend and we hope that you had as much fun as we did. If you weren’t able to make it this past weekend or are begging for more, fear not because we will be holding an Open Loj weekend in addition to an Intro to Backpacking trip this coming weekend!! Signups will be taken at our general meeting tomorrow night, 10/13 at 7:30 PM in the Rainbow Room tent outside of Behrakis/Centennial. See you there!
VP Pub
General Meeting 10/6 – get hyped for NUCOMERS!!!
First off Ladies+ weekend was a blast and we thank all of you that were able to come! Looking forward to next weekend, we are holding a general meeting TOMORROW night in Behrakis 220 at 7:30 PM. Here we’ll explain more of the logistics behind NUComers, such as what to bring on this fine trip. Please also keep an eye out for communications from Matt and Charlie who are running this trip so that you don’t miss anything important from them as well! See you there!
General Meeting 9/29 and Ladies+ Weekend Signups!
Do you 1) identify as a lady 2) like the outdoors? If you answered yes to both of these questions we hope to see you up at the Loj this weekend for this year’s rendition of Ladies+ Weekend! Signups will be taken for this trip at our general meeting which is going to be tomorrow night, 9/29 at 7:30 PM in Behrakis 220. If you’re planning on being at the Loj or really in the woods at any point in the future you won’t want to miss this meeting as we will be hearing from one of our own members, Natalie about the 10 essentials you need for any hiking or backpacking trip!
NUComers Sign Ups!! Please Read.
Hey y’all – here’s the long awaited signup for this year’s NUCOMERS!!! This trip is undergrad only.
**IMPORTANT CHANGE: we are no longer collecting the $35 ticket fee through Venmo. The first ~100 or so people to sign up will be contacted in the coming days about how to purchase tickets online through Northeastern, and those who get a spot initially will have until this Sunday (10/3) at 11:59 PM to pay. After that, we will begin contacting people on the waitlist as spots open up. Because of the volume of signups we expect, we will likely not be able to email each and every one of you your waitlist/spot status, but it is safe to assume if you do not receive an email about ticket purchasing in the coming days that you are on the waitlist. Questions can be directed to nuhoc.info@gmail.com, we will try to get back to you ASAP. **
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NUCOMERS: signup form opens Monday, Sept. 27th at 8 PM
Hey everyone!
If you haven’t already seen our social media announcements, we are going to be sending out a signup form for our signature event of the year, NUComers, which will take place at our Loj in New Hampshire on October 8-11th, on Monday night, September 27th at 8 PM!
NUComers is a perfect opportunity to meet new NUHOC members as well as older students and alumni and spend the long weekend hiking, climbing, and exploring in the beautiful fall foliage of the Northern White Mountains!
To secure your spot at NUComers, watch for the signup form link which will be posted on our social medias and sent to this email list at 8PM on Monday night. Signups will fill quickly – we expect a waitlist. Those who are selected for the first round or so will receive an email soon after with details on how to pay the $35 ticket fee. This year, we will be collecting these ticket fees via Venmo, so you will be assigned an Eboard member to Venmo your ticket fee too. You can ask them if you have any questions about your ticket or if you can no longer make it to the trip.
You will have about 72 hours to pay your $35 – if you haven’t paid by that time, your spot will be forfeited and someone from the waitlist will be contacted and given 72 or so hours to get their $35 in. As we approach the week of the trip, if you can no longer make it, your ticket will be refundable up until Wednesday, October 6th. Trip calls will be made on Thursday, October 7th to confirm that you will be going and will give more details on where to meet to get your ride to the Loj.
Stay tuned for more information over the coming days – we hope to see you at NUComers this Fall! Questions can be directed to nuhoc.info@gmail.com but please bear with us as we move forward with this process 🙂
Best,VP Pub
General Meeting 9/22 – All About Build Committee!!
Helloooooooo NUHOC!
It was great to see that so many faces both young and old made it up to the Loj last weekend! The new generation of NUHOC looks promising.
If you were at the Loj for the first time last weekend, you may have noticed that what we call the Loj is actually a yurt – once upon a time, the Loj was its own cabin, the Brown Memorial Loj, which was built by members of the club in 1971. The Brown Memorial Loj burnt down in 2015, but the yurt was erected as a temporary structure in its place – keyword temporary, because we are in the process of building a new Loj!
This week’s meeting, which will be tomorrow night at 7:30 PM in Cargill 97, will feature (in addition to our normal trip signups for LCT/Open Loj weekend this weekend, gear rentals, and club updates) a presentation from our Build Committee. They will discuss the new Loj plans and give some great background information about our club’s history. This is a great opportunity for new members to get more involved with how our club works and to catch up on the history lesson you may have missed if you didn’t make it to Alumni Weekend last weekend!
General Meeting – SAR 101 with Julia Thoreson
In honor of alumni weekend this weekend, us tomorrow night, 9/15 in the Curry Student Center Mezzanine at 7:30 PM as we talk to esteemed NUHOC alum and California Search and Rescue team member Julia Thoreson! Expect some great stories from our NUHOC West contingent in addition to our usual meeting shenanigans.