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Join us for our last meeting of the semester at 7:30pm on Wednesday in the Science Quad (024 East Village if it’s raining) for our Summer Soiree! Wear your favorite summer clothes, bring some food to share, and vote for new fall Eboard positions!

Come to our meeting on Wednesday 024 East Village at 7:30pm to hear about our upcoming trips to the loj this weekend (there could be MULTIPLE waterfalls involved) and to nominate people for Executive Board positions for the fall semester! You can nominate any active undergrad member, and elections will be held next week (same time, same place!).

Come to our OUTDOOR MEETING this Wednesday at 7:30pm in the West Village quad! Feel free to bring food and outdoor games. There will also be some bike “professionals” who are happy to help fix bikes (maybe you’re coming on our Cape Cod bike trip this upcoming weekend??) so bring your bike too!

What did we do this weekend?

David went bowling with Burke and Bridget in Seattle and hiked part of Mt Rainier

Katie has an herb garden

Mac hiked to the top of Jefferson and put on a long formal gown and ate a 3 course meal

Harrison deep cleaned his room and went to a Carly Rae Jepsen concert

Some people went to Revere Beach

G watched Chris eat ice cream and found a dinosaur and rekindled her love for hiking and swam in the ocean

Nate spent a lot of time hiking in NZ but not this weekend

Dan S ripped his shorts open on rocks

Tom has a new family member (a bike) named Lucky

Mallory had an awesome weekend at formal hike and solved the canoe joke

Trips

This weekend is G’s birthday (July 21st)

Next weekend is Cape Cod bike trip and there’s a waitlist but wish them luck, maybe also an open loj

August 2-4 is another open loj

August 9-11 water with Becca and open loj

August 16-18 lojapalooza (arts and music weekend at the loj)

Member led trips 

August 2-4 G is going to New York for a women’s climbing comp with clinics after

August 9-11 trip grants flights with Nick Deporzio and Jackson, sign-ups next week

This Saturday beach day with Ian at Carson beach

Harrison goes backpacking and if you want to go talk to him (including 2-3 day pemi loop at the end of the summer)

Erin is hiking the twins on Saturday

Who’s the loj?

Almost every weekend it’s open and almost every weekend we do things there

Become an LCT if you want to become more involved in the loj and maybe eventually you’ll get keys for life

Gear

We have a gear locker with gear

Website, form, pick up gear, bring gear back

Email if you want gear not on a Wednesday

~Gearwatch~ 

REI Outlet Collapsible water bottle lantern

REI 48oz nalgene

REI Outlet 27floz wine Platypus PlatyPreserve

REI $1050 with free shipping water filter

Maybe Ebay for your other water bottle needs

Being a member

Nuhoc.com memberships

Online form

Follow Jackson to the gear locker

Paper form

$10 & you’re a member

We also have shirts and koozies and keychains

Nuhoc.com

@wegoontrips

Send Harrison Nuhoc photos even if they’re old

nuhoc.info@gmail.com

Weather

Boston 

Friday 89 partly cloudy

Saturday 97 partly cloudy

Sunday 91 rainy

Loj

Friday 89

Saturday 93

Sunday 87

Wacky wikipedia wonders

DB Cooper

This guy in 1971 hijacked a plane between Portland and Seattle, requested $200,000 (1.2 mil today) and a parachute, landed in the Seattle airport, got the money, jumped out of the plane and they never found him

(He walks in our midst?)

Open loj sign ups will be on social media if we end up having one

West village quad next meeting!

What did we do this weekend

Mac and G mountain biked

Dan had a peaceful and stressful day boating and almost blew up

Natalie saw the blue man group and they spurted paint from their shirts

Ian jumped into and then out of a fountain

Dylan found out you can canoe at the loj

Trips

7/12-7/14 Come be formal this weekend

We go to the top of a mountain and have fancy meals in a nice outfit

You might wear just a bowtie

It’s also Jackson’s birthday but he won’t be at the loj

7/19-7/21 Then it’s G’s bday and she won’t be at the loj but there might be an open loj

7/26-7/28 Cape cod bike trip where you bike all the way to the end of cape cod (at least 10 miles) and take the ferry back (sign ups are over)

Intro to intro to backpacking

8/2-8/4 open loj

8/9-8/11 water with becca

8/16-8/18 lojapalooza

Indoors and outdoors at once?? That’s the yurt

It’s like a house but a circle

We hang out and do many activities and have a lot amount of fun

If you want to become more involved, we have the loj committee and the loj committee trainee process (LCT) 

To be an LCT you have to go to the loj 3 times, talk to Nat, do a speech at a meeting, give a gift and answer questions, and get voted on as an LCT

Then to be an LC do the checklist and host a dinner, maybe get keys for life

Member led trips

Harrison is backpacking on 7/20-7/21, 8/9-8/11, and one more at the end of August

Mildly intense but backpacking experience doesn’t matter, just fitness

~10 mile days and some elevation

Ian wants to go to the beach or go climbing on Saturday (Dylan and Harrison could crush some Saturday beach)

Mac doesn’t work on Fridays so if you want to go climbing or do something on the way to the loj, let her know

Jackson says Saturday will be 90 and sunny (perfect for the beach day)

Dylan’s birthday is 8/22 and Harrison’s 21st is 8/24

Natalie’s half birthday is also soon

You might need gear

Return it and the gear people have it

GEAR WATCH

Backcountry.com

Bike rack for the back of the car

Over 50% off

$54

The climbing shoes look fine

Today only – waterproof and expensive pants down from $350

Not today only – headlamp for $20

Being a member

1. Nuhoc.com, memberships tab, online form, paper form, $10 for Jackson
2. You’re a member

We have shirts and soda koozies and keychains

Look at our social media

Harrison is making posters maybe for next week

@wegoontrips

Nuhoc.com

Take pictures and send them to @wegoontrips

Weather for taking pics

Boston 

Friday thunderstorms for angst

Saturday 90 sunny

Sunday 87 sunny

New Hampshire

Friday Rain 60%

Saturday 86 partly cloudy (stupid hot)

Sunday 74 partly cloudy (nice)

The GREAT OUTDOORS Boston edition by Ian

Erika put in a work request and now Ian can do his presentation

Ian made a map where you can find all the places in this presentation

Free

Arboretum – if you meet someone and they haven’t been there it probably won’t work out

Larz Anderson Park – near JP and the Arboretum antique auto museum that’s maybe free and there’s ice skating on the weekend, Dan S works at sam adams which is next to there

Jamaica Pond – a nice pond, not the best for frolicking in the water

The JP licks in JP has free coffee ground compost sometimes

Not free at Jamaica Pond, you can learn to sail

Charles River – you better have been there

Revere Beach – it’s slept on, go for the sunrise, go to the bagel bin

Carson Beach – there are volleyball courts there

Castle Island – has a fort

Middlesex Fells

Blue Hills – the other big park close to Boston and it’s actually kind of easy to get to on the bus

Cutler Park – hiking, regular biking, mountain biking

Walden Pond – kinda famous but far, Decordova sculpture pond (life hack don’t go into the museum and look at the sculptures for free)

Minuteman Bike Trail – take the T to Alewife 

Southwest Corridor and the Emerald Necklace – a nice ~9 mile run if you do a loop, so many dogs around 5pm, it should someday connect all the way through MA

The November Project – run the Harvard stairs at 530am and other runs Monday and Friday

Worlds End Park – kayaking would be awesome and great sunset views

Not free

Kayak or SUP on the Charles 

Climbing at gyms or find a climbing buddy at Nuhoc, G has access to a book with all the rocks that are close

Boston Harbor – take the ferry that’s $20

Boston Community Sailing – summer membership around $350 and you can take classes to learn and use their boats and take friends out

MITOC boat rentals

Facebook groups!

Harold Parker State Forest Mountain Biking

Get excited for formal hike and bike repair/picnic potluck meeting the week after next! The weekend before the cape cod bike trip! We don’t have bike parts but we have tools

Come to our meeting this week on Wednesday at 7:30pm in 024 East Village to hear about our upcoming trips and sign up for formal hike! (coming up this weekend!!) Break out your suits and old prom dresses and join us for an event like no other in the White Mountains.

Come to our meeting tomorrow night at 7:30pm in 024 East Village to learn about our upcoming trips and to hear about fun activities to do in Boston!

What we did this weekend

Becca saw a dog 6 times on one hike

Harrison went on his first bike tour

Mac got 30-something bug bites while wearing 100% deet

Amanda went to lake Winnipesaukee

Mike went hiking in Central Park

Theja biked to some breweries

Liz made 90 cupcakes for her grandma’s 90th birthday :’)

Trips

6/14-6/16 Work (by Rihanna ft Drake) weekend at the loj

6/21-6/23 open loj

6/28-6/30 parents weekend

7/6-7/7 Patriotic search for snow

7/19-7/21 Intro to intro to backpacking with Spencer

7/26-7/28 cape cod bike trip – sign up starting this week because reservations need to be made soon

June 26-28 Harrison is doing a moderate backpacking trip on the AT, he has rides with 1-2 spots and it’ll be the beginning of the Vermont section

Ramana’s LCT Speech

This club was founded in 1941 and it’s one of the oldest student organizations at Northeastern

We were the hu-skiers but we added outings

In 1971, the loj design contest was held and we built the loj

The loj burnt down 3 years ago but now we have a yurt which is like a permanent tent and it has a wood stove

Ramana wants to be an LCT because she wants more leadership experience, she’s felt underprepared sometimes but Nuhoc has been her first outdoors experience besides one camping trip and she’s from FL

To become an LCT you have to organize with an LC, get permission to do your speech, and then talk about why you wanna be LCT

Her gifts are a laser meese cross-stitch and magic soap made of stainless steel to get rid of garlic and onion smell

More about the LCT process: there’s a list of items to complete, 27 (or 28?) things to do and you do them, get everything signed off by an LC, host a dinner and again prove yourself, burning at the stake and you maybe get keys

Q & A

There are 28 things on the list or are there 27? 28 but debatable

What national forest is the loj in? She only knows the glades, that the white mountains are a place, and that the loj is not in Acadia

On interstate 93, what mile marker is the white mountain national forest? 42?

Does the soap do anything for body odor? Probably not but Erika will attempt

What’s your favorite color? Light purple

What’s your favorite number? 9

Favorite memory at the loj? Chris Kane’s winter carnival talent show is something she thinks about a lot, her first time was a normal open loj and it was a lot of alum walking barefoot in the snow

What is the tallest mountain in the white mountain national forest? They’re all presidents, Franklin? (it’s Washington)

What is the tallest mountain in the white mountain national forest with no parking lot at the top? ? (it’s Adams)

How many pigs could fit in the pig pen? None but hypothetically 5 with room to breathe

How many moose statues do you pass going to the loj? 3

What’s your favorite moose statue? She can only think of those signs in Acadia that say “don’t moose around”

What are the dimensions of a quart of wood? 27x42x36

How many quarts of wood could a woodchuck chuck? 27

Left or right? lookers left, shitters right

Big mountain little or little mountain big? Big little feels right

What item on the list are you most excited for? Improving something and making it artistic or fun (project)

What county is the loj in? Not shelburne county because it’s not a county

What do you do at the loj when faced with the laser meese and dog sized mosquitoes? Her only superpower is being from Florida but that’s crazy energy that will summon the skater gators, they move fast on wheels up the east coast to shelby, NH and they have strong outer skin and they’re too tough for the meese with their wobbly knees, the mosquitoes will be fazed by the swamp energy

Gear

If ya need gear for camping or activities, the gear locker might have it!

To rent gear, you need to be a member, go to nuhoc.com, click the poem in the gear tab and fill out the form, pick up gear after meetings or email nuhocgearguys@gmail.com

GEAR WATCH (sales at REI)

Camping bikinis!

Self-inflating camping pillow

Half dome tent

Coleman cooler ultimate xtreme

Membership

Go to the website nuhoc.com

Fill out an online form

Fill out a paper form at a meeting

Pay $10 and get a membership card

Sweet swag

-Blue t shirts $10 (the moisture manager)

-New t shirt $20 (extremely soft cotton)

-Nalgenes $10

-Soda koozies $3

-Coasters $5ish

-Keychains: Trees, Laser meese taser geese, Big little/little big (price varies)

Social media

@wegoontrips on Insta and twitter (!)

Our 3rd tweet of the year is up!

Weather

Boston

-The patented shower sun

-74 Friday, 80 Saturday, and 78 Sunday

At the Loj

-There are winds at 15 mph, maybe they’ll blow away the bugs

-It will maybe rain Friday and Saturday

-Friday 70, Saturday 76, Sunday 74

Wacky wikipedia weather wonders

-More apocalypse theme: there was a year without a summer in 1816 (the poverty year) (also known as 1800 and frozen to death)

-Catatumbo lightning occurs over the mouth of the Catatumbo River almost every night per year almost all the time

The projector is cooling so we have to go outside without doing the bear safety slideshow :/

Come to our meeting in 024 East Village at 7:30pm on Wednesday to hear about our upcoming trips! We got Work Weekend this weekend, Parent’s weekend after that, and Patriotic Search for Snow after that. All of these trips (and more!) can be seen on the calendar to the right of this post!

At the end of the meeting there will be a short presentation on bear safety in New England, followed by a trip out to a quad to try and throw bear bags. Hope to see you all there!

NUHOC General Meeting 6/5/2019

What did we do this weekend?

Becca fed horses peppermints in Kentucky

M&M backpacking

G went climbing with Spencer & Co. on Saturday and had a good time and went climbing with Meg on Sunday and had a bad time

Katie had a good time on Saturday moving couches up stairs

Ian stayed inside and was sick but it was more fun than moving

Theja hiked and mountain biked

More people went backpacking with M&M!

Max went to a poetry reading and “didn’t cry”

Tom sat on the beach and did nothing in Stone Harbor

Erika’s roommate is here and biked to Walden and back

Trips with G

June 7-9 Open loj & pride

June 14-16 Work weekend

June 21-23 Open loj

June 28-30 Parents weekend

July 5-7 Patriotic search for snow

July 12-14 Formal hike

July 19-21 Intro to intro to backpacking

July 26-28 Cape cod bike trip

Trail work

June 7, Friday, 9-4pm in the Berkshires with AMC

July 6, Berkshires with AMC

July 14th, Sunday, Berkshires with AMC

Sept 27-29, Chatham trails in NH/ME

The loj!

At the loj we go hiking and climbing and skiing

Work weekend is next weekend

You can become a LCT after going to the Loj 3 times, you give a speech and get a checklist, host a dinner, then maybe become a LC and get keys for life

Gear

You might need gear

Go to nuhoc.com, click the gear tab, click the link in the poem, fill out a form

Get gear after meetings

Give it back!

nuhocgearguys@gmail.com

Today on sale at LLBean is a yellow 2 person tent and a women’s flannel jacket (pricing is suspicious)

Membership & Money

Go to Nuhoc.com for the online membership form

Get a paper form from Anna, Tom, or Jackson

Pay $10,000 ($10)

Get a membership card for a year !

For sale:

water bottles $10

coasters “we drink [instant] coffee in the woods” $5

laser meese taser geese keychains $5

Logo keychains $5

Trees keychains $4

T shirts $20

Koozies $3

Mark Synnott book $5, donate proceeds to the Access Fund!

Acadia reimbursements are due today!

old Nuhoc shirts “moisture management” $10

Social media

Harrison’s inner thoughts on Nuhoc

*Harrison does a kickflip* (kind of)

@wegoontrips

Weather

Loj-

Showercap on the sun Friday and Saturday at the loj :/

Friday 74

Saturday 76

Sunday 83

Boston-

Friday 69

Saturday 73

Sunday 77

Sometimes there is smoke and darkness in the middle of the day

Blood rain CAN happen and it’s not actually blood but it is red (it’s a fungus) (is that better?)

Raining fish happens all the time, at least once a year and sometimes it rains frogs or octopi in China

Spider rain in Argentina and Australia and Brazil

Raining cats and dogs came about because in London they used to get caught in the gutters and die and fall out when it was raining?

Charlie is on trip grants and you can be too

We need trip grants committee people (especially who are here during the summer)

Undergrads can get funded to go on trips if they plan and propose it

Examples are dog sledding and hiking part of the Appalachian trail

Schedule for proposals on Nuhoc website under trips

More weather

It rained meat in Kentucky (pork or bear) but it was maybe vulture puke