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Though classes are out for the academic year, the Hamilton Outing Club (HOC) is alive and well, thriving in the summer weather. Having already hosted one day hike and one overnight hike over the past couple weeks, HOC is planning to continue organizing outdoor excursions for the community.

Kai Scarangella ’21 says the Richard Morse Award she received from the Adirondack Research Consortium and Ecology and Environment will help her attend graduate school. “Earning my doctorate will help me achieve my goal of becoming the director of an environmental remediation and restoration research institute,” she says.

Past and future Hamilton Adirondack Program members and Janelle Schwartz, program founder and general director, participated in Adirondack Day in Albany. The program, designed to educate legislators and their staffs about the economic, education, and social issues and energy in the Park, was held on May 13.

Fort Ticonderoga and the Saratoga Battlefield were the first two venues explored by members of History of American Mountaineering and Outdoor Adventure, a course taught by Professor of History Maurice Isserman as part of the Hamilton College Adirondack Program.

The Hamilton College Marathon Canoe Racing Team did it again! Starting on Friday, Sept. 7, the team of 20 competed in the annual Adirondack Canoe Classic, hosted by Mac’s Canoe Livery. The paddlers woke up before the sun rose for two weeks prior to the race to train on Delta Lake in Rome, NY. Before they knew it, they were lined up in Old Forge on Friday morning poised to start the journey.

Joining the ongoing examination and analysis of human-caused environmental changes in the Adirondacks, a group of Hamilton researchers spent four days taking sediment cores from four Adirondack lakes.

Before the semester ended, some Hamilton Outing Club members took a breather and participated in the Round the Mountain Canoe and Kayak Races in Saranac Lake.

The past two weeks have presented a flurry of activities for the Outing Club. On Feb. 3 a group of eight embarked from the Glen House setting course toward Blue Mountain. Blue Mountain boasts a fire tower at its 3,750-ft. summit, one of many in the Adirondacks.

The Outing Club punctuated the first weekend of the new semester with a trip to Snowy Mountain on Jan. 20. A group of 15 stood tall against the unforgiving temperature and embraced the brisk mountain air. The summit, 3,898 feet, is the highest in Hamilton County and boasts a fire tower. A winter hike gives brave adventurers a unique chance to get spectacular views from the summit floor, eliminating the need of climbing the tower.

The Outing Club began the semester with a flurry of activity from by engaged leaders and eager participants. The activity did not let up as the leaves began to change and the semester lumbered on. There were canoeing competitions, rock climbing competitions and trips, overnights, and day trips along with two leader training weekends led by experienced officers of the Outing Club.