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Winter break can begin to drag on after enough hours cooped up watching reruns with your family. Just because the Outing Club won't be around to organize trips in January, it doesn't mean you can't take initiative for your own adventures. Below is a regional guide to fun, affordable, and accessible outdoor activities you can try on your own.

BOC Notebook

Before ski season starts, the BOC sponsors indoor fun

November 19, 2004

Fall season is coming to a close at the Outing Club, and this weekend we are sending out our last trip of the semester. Around this time in November paddling and hiking taper off due to cold and snow, and winter sports like skiing and snowshoeing haven't quite gotten started yet.

Despite the small number of trips that have been going out during this seasonal transition, there has been lots of Outing Club activity on campus on which to report.

To begin, the second annual Maine Telemark Film Festival, co-hosted by the BOC and New England Telemark, took place last Friday in Kresge Auditorium. The festival featured six amateur films on telemark skiing, from which the audience was asked to vote for their favorite, and one professional film by Tough Guy Productions. The BOC's own telemark ski video from last year's backcountry spring break trip to the Sierras, filmed and edited by Matt O'Donnell, premiered as well.

O'Donnell serves as the program coordinator for the telemark skiing program which is in its fifth year at the College. According to "O'D", who organized the film festival with New England Telemark, the film fest was "an unqualified success."

Last year's film festival took place in Smith Auditorium, but large attendance spurred the move to Kresge for this year. "We're thinking of going with all-amateur films for next year's fest, and hope to hold it in Pickard Theater," said O'Donnell after another year of filling the venue to capacity. O'Donnell also said he hopes to see Bowdoin student entries in the amateur section next year.

Outdoor films continued to draw a crowd this past Tuesday night, as well, when the surfing movie Endless Summer played at the Schwartz as an event organized by BOC leaders.

Spring applications for Leadership Training are also keeping the BOC busy at this time of year. Outing Club Director Michael Woodruff reported that 48 students applied for the spring semester trip-leader training course, making it one of the largest, if not the largest, applicant pool for LT in the club's history.

Woodruff and Assistant Director Stacy Linehan are looking to select fifteen new leaders for the training course out of what Woodruff called the "impressively large number of qualified applicants."

Tonight, to celebrate the fall season that is coming to a close, the BOC is hosting a contra dance at the Schwartz. This event will feature live music and calling by the contra dance band The Usual Suspects.

All members of the College community are welcome at this event, the first ever of its kind at the Outing Club, and BOC membership is not a prerequisite. The dance will start at 8:00 p.m. No experience is necessary.

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