On my Orientation Trip to Merritt Island, we were given a huge block of Cabot cheese. Though we didn’t finish it, that block of cheese became a key topic of discussion during those treacherous first couple of weeks. Desperate for …
Each weekend, you might find a select group of students missing from campus. Instead of waiting in the Thorne line or studying in HL, they’re exploring the great outdoors: climbing, hiking and canoeing their way through Leadership Training (LT).
I grew up believing that nothing in the wilderness could scare me. I crave new experiences, new places, and I love teaching people about being wild. I’ve scaled 13,000-foot peaks in a lightning storm, galloped on horseback through the Yellowstone …
Every year, the Bowdoin Outing Club (BOC) hosts two semester-long Leadership Training (LT) sessions with the objective of training students to lead BOC trips for their peers. For the past few years, the BOC has accepted applications for fall semester …
The Bowdoin Outing Club’s (BOC) Finnegan McCoul Woodruff Mountain Center (FMWMC) has entered the permitting process for the construction of the facility in Kingfield, as the College appeared before the Kingfield Planning Board with its initial permitting application this past …
This June, the Bowdoin Outing Club (BOC) welcomed Emmie McElroy as its new assistant director, bringing a fresh presence and experience to one of the largest student organizations on campus. An outing club member throughout her college years at Washington …
The Bowdoin Outing Club (BOC) has begun the Finnegan McCoul Woodruff Mountain Center (FMWMC) project, which aims to establish a new community center and staging camp for BOC trips in the Maine woods. The 21-acre property in Kingfield, named in …
Today marks Carrigan Fain’s last day as assistant director of the Bowdoin Outing Club (BOC). In an email sent over winter break, Associate Director of the BOC Anna Bastidas announced Fain’s decision to leave the College and accept the position …
On Tuesday, Carrigan Fain officially joined the Bowdoin Outing Club (BOC) staff as its new assistant director following the departure of Eric Guiang ’18. Guiang’s two-year tenure at the Outing Club ended earlier this month.