Longjohns? Check.
Flashlight? Check.
Sunny and 75 degrees?
Check.
The 230 members of the class of 2011 who are venturing out on Adirondack Adventure spent their first full day on the Hill meeting the other members of their groups and preparing to head north.
Under clear blue, cloud-free Central New York skies on Tuesday, the students gathered with their fellow trip members on the deck of Glen House and reviewed their equipment check lists. Surrounded by kayaks, tents, ropes and other outdoor accoutrements, the students quizzed their group leaders. "Do I really need long underwear?" "Do we get cell phone reception up there?" "Does anybody have an extra fleece I can borrow?" As Director of Outdoor programming Andrew Jillings rechecked the too-good-to-be-true weather forecast, students dug through their garbage bags full of equipment as leaders went through their checklists.
The 27 groups will head out on Wednesday and spend three-and-a-half days in the Adirondack wilderness on such trips as sea kayaking on Lake Champlain, rock climbing in Keene Valley or canoeing on the Raquette River. Then they'll return to Outdoor Education Centers and participate in a High Ropes course challenge before heading back to campus to meet the rest of their classmates and begin orientation.
New this year is the Writing 110 canoeing and hiking trip to Cranberry Lake. The 12 students in this trip/class will keep journals then spend the semester writing about their experiences in the class taught by James L Ferguson professor of History Maurice Isserman, who scaled Kala Patar in Nepal in June. His class will feature works on the Lewis and Clark expedition, the history of Arctic exploration and the history of Himalayan mountaineering, as well as a visit from world-renowned mountaineer and author Conrad Anker. The class will also take part in some weekend hiking, rock climbing or canoeing trips during the semester.
When Jillings began working at Hamilton at 1997, there were 12 Adirondack Adventure trips. The number of trips and participants has grown each year and Jillings anticipates that within five years there will be twice as many trips geared to an even wider range of experience levels.
Watch Andrew Jillings discuss many of the elements of the 2007 Adirondack Adventure Program:
Flashlight? Check.
Sunny and 75 degrees?
Check.
The 230 members of the class of 2011 who are venturing out on Adirondack Adventure spent their first full day on the Hill meeting the other members of their groups and preparing to head north.
Under clear blue, cloud-free Central New York skies on Tuesday, the students gathered with their fellow trip members on the deck of Glen House and reviewed their equipment check lists. Surrounded by kayaks, tents, ropes and other outdoor accoutrements, the students quizzed their group leaders. "Do I really need long underwear?" "Do we get cell phone reception up there?" "Does anybody have an extra fleece I can borrow?" As Director of Outdoor programming Andrew Jillings rechecked the too-good-to-be-true weather forecast, students dug through their garbage bags full of equipment as leaders went through their checklists.
The 27 groups will head out on Wednesday and spend three-and-a-half days in the Adirondack wilderness on such trips as sea kayaking on Lake Champlain, rock climbing in Keene Valley or canoeing on the Raquette River. Then they'll return to Outdoor Education Centers and participate in a High Ropes course challenge before heading back to campus to meet the rest of their classmates and begin orientation.
New this year is the Writing 110 canoeing and hiking trip to Cranberry Lake. The 12 students in this trip/class will keep journals then spend the semester writing about their experiences in the class taught by James L Ferguson professor of History Maurice Isserman, who scaled Kala Patar in Nepal in June. His class will feature works on the Lewis and Clark expedition, the history of Arctic exploration and the history of Himalayan mountaineering, as well as a visit from world-renowned mountaineer and author Conrad Anker. The class will also take part in some weekend hiking, rock climbing or canoeing trips during the semester.
When Jillings began working at Hamilton at 1997, there were 12 Adirondack Adventure trips. The number of trips and participants has grown each year and Jillings anticipates that within five years there will be twice as many trips geared to an even wider range of experience levels.
Watch Andrew Jillings discuss many of the elements of the 2007 Adirondack Adventure Program:
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Andrew Jillings, Director of Outdoor Leadership talks about the new Adirondack Adventure program that incorporates elements from the Writing 110 class. August 14, 2007 |
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Jillings describes the equipment check that takes place before groups set out on their adventures. August 14, 2007 |
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Why a rainy day isn't necessarily a bad thing on Adirondack Adventure. August 14, 2007 |
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No cell phones, no computers, and no Facebook - how do incoming Freshman survive without their electronic accoutrements? August 14, 2007 |
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Jillings outlines his plans for the future of the Adirondack Adventure program at Hamilton College. August 14, 2007 |
