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Hello Nuhoc and hello Summer 1!

What did people do over the break?

-Zain met Charlie and Nat just now

-Aidan’s going to New Zealand during Summer 2

-Someone is taking a terrible advanced writing online class with a 12 page syllabus that had a hidden easter egg?

-Riverboarding is when you wear a helmet and swim down a white water river (but you also wear a padded wetsuit and fins)

-Max helped his mom move

Trips

Open Loj this weekend (May 11/12) and it’s also mother’s day on Sunday

Open Loj next weekend May 18/19

Acadia May 25-27

In the future, formal hike and parents’ weekend

If you’ve never been, at Open Loj people go hiking and climbing and maybe canoeing.

ACADIA

We have campgrounds, we have vans

Tickets come out the 15th at a time that Harrison will find out

There will be hiking, biking, sea kayaking, and (maybe climbing)

It’s $35 for the weekend

If you’re 21 and you’re going to Acadia, please drive a van!

Member-led trips

Somaiya wants to go outdoor climbing on saturday

Ian is gonna go to Tucks on Saturday as a day trip

Ian is going outdoor bouldering at Lincoln Woods on Sunday (but you’ll have to pitch in to rent another car if you come)

Jackson is going to Tucks next weekend and you can also come hang out with him and his mom on mother’s day

Becca wants to go to Echo Lake State Park sometime this summer

Harrison is doing 4-5 backpacking trips this summer(12-15 miles/day for 2 days) (you don’t have to know how to backpack but you gotta keep the pace)

Loj

Nat is the loj committee chair and we spell it L-O-J. It’s actually a yurt that we are working on all the time and if you love going to the Loj, you can start the Loj committee training process. That means you do a speech at a meeting and give a gift for the Loj. Then you complete a list (27 items learning how to run the loj) and host a Loj committee dinner. Then get keys for life!

Gear

Mac has been awake for 27 hours HELP

You need things in the woods like backpacks and sleeping bags and snowshoes maybe

Go to nuhoc.com click some links and get to the form and fill out your info

Pick up the gear (hopefully after a meeting), use it, and bring the gear back

Talk to Dylan or Mac or Dan S if you have questions

Treasury

Anna and Jackson are on treasury and so is Tom but he isn’t here

To become a member go to the nuhoc.com membership tab, do the google form and Jackson/Anna will give you a paper form. Give them back the paper form and $10 cash and they will give you a membership card.

If you’re a member you can get gear and maybe a free coffee punch card.

We have SWAG aka old t shirts ($10), new t shirts ($20), and green nalgenes

Pub

We take good and bad pictures and they are on the social media

@wegoontrips on Instagram (People went to Tucks and it’s still winter there and there’s a cool pic on the Insta so follow?)

NUHOC on Facebook

nuhoc.com

Weather

The weather is GREAT

65 in boston on Saturday and 50 on Sunday and Ian says he will not let it rain

54 and 62 on Saturday and Sunday at the Loj (Friday is raining but we’ll ignore that)

Fact from Ian: There’s upside-down lighting called sprites which are decameter sized balls of ionization. To take a picture, be 150-500 km away during a normal thunderstorm and you will maybe catch one. Also, elves are discs of light and we don’t know why.

Questions?

Jackson wants to know how to sign up for trips? You can do that at the front of the room on a Google form after a meeting (you can also sign up at home after in the meeting notes or on the website but you’ll be later and farther down the list)

Specer wants to know if he can come to the Loj by himself if he has no plans? ANYONE CAN COME TO THE LOJ, there will be people and things to do and you can join in

Is there a mailing list? Join the Google group and follow the social media to get updates

If anyone wants a summer job and has climbed maybe once and doesn’t hate kids, Giuliana can help you, so talk to her

Hellooo NUHOC! Come to our first summer meeting at 7:30pm tonight (5/8) in East Village Room 002 to find out more about our upcoming Open Loj’s, Acadia, and other summer events!

Nat, Dylan, Sam, Avery, skied out west at Mammoth

Tom skied Loon on a weekday and brought the mean age down.

Becca went skiing at loon and did a jump without falling and then got stuck in a parking lot

Zack went in a giant sinkhole

Someone did a hot air balloon ride in Arizona

Theja also went to Arizona

Harrison built a ski jump in his backyard and almost did a 360

Catherine went to some dunes covered in snow

Trips

Open Loj/Dog Sledding : March 15-17

Select people will get to go dog sledding

It’s an option on the sign ups whether you’re interested, the first 7 to answer and commit

on their trip call will get a spot to do that. It’ll be $18 even though it’s usually over 100

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdtHqt0nLH4_yr8EOLpKGEfRJhLMQ_T7EkIQxfuhvUyt7uzfg/viewform?usp=pp_url

Open Loj: March 22-24

An open loj is a special place where we go to our loj and we run most of our trips out of.

We’re usually gone during saturday doing some cool things.

SOLO: March 29-31

Wilderness First Aid course we host every year for free to some of our members. This

will be at the Loj this year. It’s a two year certification in

Intro to Stargazing and Orienteering: April 5-7

Cardoso and an alum Nick DePorzio

Lead Orienteering during the day, and then hike up to the ledges and star gaze

Run of the Charles: April 28th

It’s a canoe race we’ve been doing for about 30 years and you race down the charles

and back and race against the alumni. We do 2 teams of 10 people, so we’ll start sign

ups too.

Tentative trips: Intro to XC and Snow School

Loj

Owen and Sam are doing LCT speeches tonight.

Hello, I’m sam I’m a second year, I’m owen im a first year.

Nuhoc was started in 1941 by william robinson and gordon brown as a skiing club and started doing more outdoorsy things and added the oc part. In 1971 they had the idea to build a loj and named it the brown memorial loj which is now a yurt because it burned down in 2015, but the spirit is still there.

The loj is taken care of by the loj committee and you can become an LCT to become an LC and you have to go to the loj three times, give a speech, and give a gift, and once you do that you get a list of 27 items that you need to get checked off like how to open, build a fire, and then cook a dinner for the LC members and they vote and if you get a good rating you get keys for life.

Owen: I was looking for ways to get out of the city and i found NUHOC. Over the summer I was looking at it and got really excited. My first trip was intro to backpacking with Theja and we went to a lake an I lost my glasses and had to walk back without seeing. Then I went to Nucomers, did howe peak.

I’ve been up to the loj a couple times and have cut my fingers twice on a knife so I got a knife sharpener to prevent anymore injuries. Two different sharpeners, coarse and fine.

Sam: I was also looking for a way to get outdoors. I’m a transfer student and my school didn’t have an outdoors club (or really anything) and wanted to find people to ski with an go outdoors and nuhoc has a lot of those people and I really like it and have liked all the people and have wanted to be a part of that and take care of the loj.

I actually got this idea when I was driving back from the loj with Meg and Cardoso so this guy’s kinda a stand in, but I bought a pack of disposable cameras. I thought it would be great to have loj specific cameras so people could document some of the weird shit that happens there and the progress that has been made since the loj burned down. I haven’t been to the archives, but I’m sure there’s photos there that people can look at so being able to document what’s happening now would be great for the future. They can last in water and stuff but they have film so we can get them in CD’s or Print, maybe put the online or scrapbook or something.

Questions:

What’s your favorite memory? Owen’s was winter carnival. Happening to win and learning he can jump really high.

Sam’s was also winter carnival. Owen and I were on the same team. Honesty our talent show was my favorite thing, just planning it for 2 hours.

What’s your favorite moose on the way to the loj? Owen likes the one by the police station; Sam agrees.

How many chains is it from the split in the hastings trail to the loj property? Depends on the path; 15

What’s your favorite color? Waters edge blue; orangeish

Use that color for your least favorite with that color: No answers

What item on the list are you most excited for? Owen orienteering; Sam running a trip

What would a trip be? Skiing photography shoot where you can rent really long lenses and take photos of people doing almost spins. No offense to Harrison but Owen would like to make the winter backpacking trip actually happen

If you could build a second loj anywhere in the world? New Zealand; Japan (good skiing apparently)

What’s your favorite loj food/what would you cook? Chili; Egg scramble that connor made was good

How many peaks are there above 5000 feet in NH name them? Washington, Adams

So you’re driving home from the loj, you’re about to get to storrow, what is the bridge? Leverett Circle connector bridge

What’s the genus and species of a moose? I don’t do science; moose moose

What is the most prominent mountain after mount washington? Loon; it’s prominent in my heart. Adams is the tallest you can’t drive up. Prominence is the height difference between its surroundings.

Left or right and why? Right is usually more convenient. Shitters left.

Big mountain little mountain or little mountain big mountain? Big mountain little mountain

Choose between a window that can be opened or closed between the two outhouses or motion sensor lights in the outhouse? The window for sure.

This is your final question: So you decide you’re both gonna go up to the loj this weekend, super sweet conditions, so you’re walking up and you each have only your gift in your hands, just the two of you and you start to hear something walking behind you even though everyone is in front of you. There’s a faint red light in the distance, it can’t be a car. Out form the woods comes a whole pack of laser meese, what are you gonna do to fight them and protect the loj? The laser meese have a mortal enemy, the taser geese. They’ve been locked in combat for centuries so the plan is to make an alliance with the laser meese. So hypothetically, it would be better to make an alliance with the taser geese. The knife sharpener doesn’t really do much but the meese don’t know that. The geese also have talons and beaks that can be sharpened, so in close range they can beat them.

Sam doesn’t want to befriend them. Sam will have several cameras that have a mean flash and take all of them and rapid fire at the laser meese and it will burn their eyes and rid their lasers because you can fight a pack of regular meese.

Gear

We’ve got gear in this little room that sometimes drips on you in curry. We’ve had it for uh 56 years, it’s got some cool stuff in it. If you want it, you should go on the website. The correct answer is wednesday, and you should return it.

Membership

Being a member is pretty cool. You don’t have to be a member to come on trips, but you do for gear for trips.

Next week at 8:11 we’ll be selling these key chains for $2 so come back for that. Half off if you have keys to the loj.

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Website: Nuhoc.com

Facebook: Nuhoc Loj

Insta: @wegoontrips

We got a lot of submissions this week, but Charlie won.

If you want to win, either submit on insta or email.

Weather

Boston:

Friday- 61/44 rainy

Saturday- 49/31 partly cloudy

Sunday- 42/27 partly cloudy

Loj:

Friday- 56/35 rain

Saturday- 40/19 rain

Sunday- 28/11 cloudy

Trip Grants Presentation

Basically, we have money to give you to run new, novel, fun trips that are outside NUHOC’s normal scope we can help you plan it.

If you go on our website, and go to trip grant program you can find the bylaws and that we have $800 for this upcoming summer semester to give out.

Go to nuhoc.com

Trips

Trip grant program

Proposal and fill out the preliminary form. This is NOT the full proposal.

Once we have that, we look at all of them and will send back feedback for a full proposal that has all the details

Charlie made an example for kayaking in the boston harbor. It takes about 5 hours if you do it right. This is posted on the trip grants website; logistics, map, transportation, food, lodging, gear, safety, expected cost. You can only fund up to $500 for a large trip (multi day).

At the end of the semester, we look at all the proposals we get and allocate a budget.

After your trip, you’ll give a presentation on it.

3/27: deadline for preliminary feedback

4/03: feedback will be given

4/10: feedback not guaranteed

4/17: final proposals due

5/08: First meeting of summer semester, grants announced.

What trips? New, requires planning, somewhat challenging for members, looks cool for everyone to see.

Fundable trips: multi day trips, climbing at a national park, sailing, snorkeling, sea kayaking.

Not: stuff in the whites we always do.

Examples: Dog sledding, climbing katahdin, hiking the AT, summer skiing in Switzerland, national parks

Memberled Trips

March 30-31 Mt. Greylock with Cardoso sign up with Erika

Anyone going to Sunday river on Saturday?

There’s an rei garage sale on Saturday morning

Just a reminder, next week’s meeting is Hans Florine (a climber) coming to talk to us. There’s a stretching clinic at 5 in cabot. It’s in the basement in Behrakis 010. Talk to Avery if you want more details.

Come to 310 Behrakis at 7:30 to learn about trips during spring break and beyond!

Tonight’s meeting will be a busy one! Come learn about bike packing and what it entails.

We will also be taking sign ups for Winter Carnival. See you all there!

If you want notifications for upcoming meetings and events join our google group at:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nuhoc

Tonight in 310 Behrakis at 7:30 you will get your first look at this years Winter Carnival. What is Winter Carnival you ask? Well you’ll hear much and more about it tonight along with sign ups for this weeks Open Lodge and Winter Carnival.

Anyone do anything fun this weekend that they want to share with the class?

Becca went ice fishing, but didn’t catch anything, but some guy caught some bass?

Harrison skied a nice icey day at Sunday River

Tom tried snowboarding and really just abused his knees

Someone else tried snowboarding at Wildcat and then slept 10 hours straight

Zach went on an urban hike in the arboretum and found a coconut.

Erika’s gonna show us how to move the screen and tell us about trips

Trips:

Groundhog’s Day at the Loj: 2/1-⅔

It’s an open loj, but people will be recruited to help bring solar panels up to the loj.

There might be a groundhog at the Loj.

Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GgQA1sbBNfc65kYQGt5EaiQ-gbqK54NwJg8dC8D-oTg/prefill

Another Open Loj:

Winter Carnival: find out more at the meeting next week, we will have a presentation on it for you

Way in the future, we got the run of the Charles.

It’s an annual event we do. It involves teams, comradery, and fun with a cool t shirt, more as it gets closer

Also on the horizon, winter backpacking and xc skiing. Dates will be determined soon.

Loj: Katie and Meg are telling us about the Loj today

They’re giving their LCT speeches today. They want to be LCT’s really badly. Nuhoc was founded in 1941, the loj was built in 1971, it burned down in 2015, it’s a yurt now. It’s all the history you need to know, but you need more info for an LCT speech

*Harrison has put on Dan’s leather pants*

You talk about the history of the club and the loj, why you want to be an LCT, present a gift that you think

The loj is where we’ve been going for trips and stuff. We go up every weekend, and ggo hiking, skiing, etc if it’s an open loj. Open loj’s are for anything really, you don’t have to have plans but if there’s something you really want to do you can do that or just join in on other people’s plans.

The Loj Committee is a group of people that take care of the loj, and an LCT is training to be a part of that committee.

To become an LCT you have to go to the loj 3 times, then you contact Bridget and say you want to give your speech, hopefully better than this, and then people ask questions and if you get let in, you get a list of 27 items and you go through that list about general outdoor things and also loj specific things and LC’s will watch you and help you learn and give you feedback of how to do better and if you’ve done well enough you’ll get a signature, and once you’ve gotten all the signatures you host a dinner which is a more formal event where you cook dinner and then we vote on whether you can be an LC and if you do then you get your Keys for Life.

If you want to go to the loj, you might need gear.

Gear:

We’ve got all of the cool stuff you need to go recreate in the outdoors. If you want gear, you go on our website and fill out a form and come get gear preferably wednesday after a meeting. We’re relatively friendly, especially Mac. The most important part is if you want to get gear, you have to be a member of this fine establishment.

Membership:

If you want to be a member, you go to NUHOC.com and fill out the form and then come find Anna, Tom, or Jackson and fill out a shorter form and give 10 dollars which will get you a membership card. This can get you gear, membership to college outside, etc.

We’ve also got some swag for purchase if you want it.

Pub:

Insta: @wegoontrips

Email: nuhoc.info@gmail.com

New fancy website: Nuhoc.com

Facebook: Nuhoc Loj

You know the spiel, on our website, we’ll post what trips are coming up, meeting notes, etc. We’re also doing a photo contest we got double the submissions as last week, we got 2, and the winner posted a rad snowboarding photo

Weather:

Boston

Friday: 25/11 sunny

Saturday: 36/23 cloudy

Sunday: 40/31 partly cloudy

Loj

Friday: 16/-3

Saturday: 23/8 snow

Sunday: 30/19 cloudy

Memberled trips:

Anyone want friends for anything fun this weekend?

Someone is going to Brenton woods on Friday if anyone wants to come, can’t promise a ride back though.

Not this weekend, but  Jesse is planning on going to Puerto Rico and volunteering over spring break if anyone wants to come.

We will no longer be meeting in 201 Mugar. Our new room is 310 Behrakis. We will continue meeting in Wednesdays at 7:30. See you all there tonight.

So, big storm rolled in last weekend, anyone else do anything cool outside?

Tom went skiing at loon and it was freezing

Dylan shoveled his car a lot

Katie went tele skiing and backcountry skiing for the first time

We got other skiers at loon

Dan went to BelAir and went skiing before the storm

Other Dan we can’t hear

Becca skied backwards and jumped (on skis) for the first time and a bunch of other firsts including burnt pasta

Any other snow storm shenanigans?

Well we’ve got some comin up

Trips:

Jan 25-27 Intro to Ski

You can only sign up if you have a car and can drive it right now or be put on the waitlist.

Feb 1-3 Open Loj Groundhog’s Day

Feb 8-10 is the mystery weekend

Feb 15-18 Winter Carnival

Led by Cardoso, if you are an alumni looking to be a judge he needs more

It’s a fun competition filled weekend

How to: trips

1. Sign up at the meeting or online from the calendar
2. You get a trip call form whoever is in charge of rides, so expect a call from an unknown number. If you didn’t get a call, you didn’t make the cut
3. Get your stuff together to meet at Bank of America on Forsyth at 6:30pm Friday
4. You are on a trip! Fun
5. You pay some people and go home (gas and food).

Loj:

Gracie is gonna tell us about the Loj today

So, if you’re new or have heard this speech 100 times, what is the loj?

The loj is a special place that used to be a wooden structure up in NH but a couple years ago it burned down unfortunately. It was called the Brown memorial loj, named after one of the builders that unfortunately died after founding the club called the Huskiers in 1941.

The loj is now a yurt. With kinda heat sometimes.

If you go up to the loj 3 separate times, you can email bridget and say hey I want to be an LCT and then you get a list with 27 things and once you finish those things you host a dinner and decide if you can be an LC which means you get to have responsibilities and have your keys for life.

So personally I came into NUHOC in a weird place cause I got accepted to NUin, but was medically not able to go to nuin so I got Aoun and he said I have to go to night school, so I wasn’t really meeting freshman, I was meeting 40 year old men coming back to school (literally my lab partner came out of jail) and I wanted to join a really cool club that I could meet people and found NUHOC on the first page of activities.

I have my gift for the loj which needs a little explanation. I fell in a lake or river thing twice at the loj, and needed to borrow some stuff from people like this stuff for the loj including some socks, some hand warmers, and some NUHOC chocolate that will hopefully keep things warm.

Was that big mountain little mountain on the socks? Yes

What’s your favorite memory at the loj? I met this alumni named Grace and she told this great story when it was 5 degrees out that she was in one outhouse and heard someone knock on the door and ask if grace was okay and she was really confused and answered that she was okay and then a little girl came out of the other stall and was like yeah I’m fine and it all made sense.

What is the big mountain and what is the little mountain and what are their heights? Washington maybe? Oh no. If it’s not that they both have bad names and are taller than me.

Follow up: mountains off the back deck? Was it washington? How? Ooooh Howe

What is the shape of the yurt? Circle with a cone

If you could fight one LC who would it be? Based on these questions I’ll have to line you up and punch you one at a time

How many peaks above 5000 in NE? 15? There’s 7, can you name them. (there’s actually 9)

If you could run any intro trip what would it be? Intro to running trips

What are the ingredients in a margarita? I don’t think i’m legally allowed to answer that

Props

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck one cord of wood in cubic feet? Um I’d say about 3

Toms question? Portsmith

Some complicated question no one understood.

Do you know the conversion between bouldering grades and ice grades? 2:1

What’s your favorite color? What’s a memory from the loj? Green; the yurt

If you’re travelling one furlong per fortnight, how long does it take you in the winter to get to the yurt? 14.5

Have you ever been to the ledges? No

How many pumps does it take to get water when its 0 outside? 30.25

When we build the loj again, what color should you? What would you? Whatevers the most fire retardant. All the colors of the rainbow right to left.

You’re going up to the loj this weekend, it’s friday night you’re real eager to get up there so you say “ I’m gonna lead the way” snow covered and all and you find as you’re on your way a whole pack of laser meese and one jetpack bear, so what are you gonna do to keep everyone safe and get up to the loj?

I know where the river I fell into multiple times is on the loop, and it’s now frozen over, and this jetpack bear uses his fire and will melt all the ice and they will all fall in and simultaneously freeze and drown.

Let us deliberate for a minute:

So, how do you think it went? Katie are lunch with her at NUcomers and it was great. Harrison calls dibs on a sock

In favor? Everyone behind row two

Not? All front two rows

Clear majority votes her in.

Gear:

If you want gear or don’t know how to get gear come talk to us later

Membership:

Jackson seconds that but if you want to be a member talk to Jackson or Tom after the meeting

Pub:

We have an email and an instagram and an online webpage (brand new website) nuhoc.com

Google NUHOC it’s the fourth result.

Apart from that, we’re doing photo contests and Becca won this last week with 1 submission and won this sticker

Trip Grants Presentation:

Hey guys, we’re the trip grants committee, Harrison, Mike, Catherine, Connor, John

If you want to do something really cool outside, well give you free money

If you have a plan or preliminary plan, submit it to us and well fund them

This is on the website if you go to trip grants: basically we have 2000 a year to spend on trips that you want to do guaranteed for funding.

Not many people are submitting so good chances for yours.

What you have to do: trips, trip grants, and then there’s a little survey to fill out and it will be read by the committee and give you feedback to make your real proposal

Trips that have been done:

Canoeing- Dan went canoeing over the summer with some other people and it was a fun time. Important thing is to keep your receipts or you won’t get money

Way to go dan.

Katahdin: Malcom and others climbed a route on katahdin it was sick, we got guac on our burritos because of trip grants

Upcoming: dogsledding on sunday of one of the loj weekends

Probably have two groups and discount it because it’s pretty pricey (what do they feed these dogs?) Date coming up

If you haven’t planned a trip before we can help you plan.

You also have to do a presentation about your trip afterwards.

Undergrad members can propose.

What can’t you do? Scuba diving, skydiving, spelunking, bungee jumping, ice climbing

Probably won’t fund a simple little day hike thing, there’s guidelines on the website.

Weather:

Boston

Thursday: all our snow is gonna melt! And it’ll rain

Friday: 40/22 and sunny

Saturday 33/27 partly cloudy

Sunday: 44/28 partly cloudy

Gorham:

Friday: 30/4 cloudy

Sat: 19/6 partly cloudy

Sun:29/10 snowy

*if you want to do the thing we aren’t allowed to do, we’re allowed to do it with College Outside*

Ice Climbing! There’s games, and people in jackets and lots of Ron’s

The full ticket is gear and guiding, there’s also an option for if you have the gear.

Tickets go on sale at 10am Friday

Feb 23-24

At Camp Cody in NH. lots of beginner ice and some other stuff.

Comes with food and lodging.

There were people there who have never climbed period last year, they provide the gear and guides to teach you.

Memberled trips:

Harrison wants to do

Tom is gonna actually go to metrorock on Friday if anyone wants to come

Tom doyle is daytripping loon on saturday with Anthony and some other people.

Now we’re gonna be screening a ski movie called Gnar to get hyped!