{"id":2627,"date":"2024-01-18T12:24:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T17:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2024-01-18T12:24:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T17:24:35","slug":"boc-meeting-minutes-1-17-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/2024\/01\/18\/boc-meeting-minutes-1-17-24\/","title":{"rendered":"BOC Meeting Minutes: 1\/17\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Introductions (Shenny &amp; Owen)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Winter Carnival (Shenny)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>February 5-10th.<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mon\u2013 Boxsledding.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tues\u2013 Campstove iron chef.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wed\u2013 Collaboration w\/ Club Nordic (relay for all levels).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thurs\u2013 Community event.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fri\u2013 Torch runs from the statehouse to the puddle \u2192 Puddle Jump&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>WE NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR THE PUDDLE JUMP!!! (Owen)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A Google Form will be sent out to sign up.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Community event. (Lili)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We are using the Halloween trick-or-treating event as inspiration. This will be on Alumni, doing Winter activities, and inviting people from the community.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Upcoming Trips (Shenny)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>More Winter-focused trips\u2013 reach out to Adam (Winter Sports Head Trip Leader) if you are a trip leader interested in leading a trip. (<a href=\"mailto:aoppenheimer@bates.edu\">aoppenheimer@bates.edu<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ideas from trip leaders.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Claire\u2013 Intro nordic trips.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ethan\u2013 Intro to the backcountry.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>David\u2013 Trip to view the eclipse this Spring.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>General Ideas.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Snowshoeing, sledding, rock climbing, shuttles to ski areas, hockey on the puddle, curling, building an igloo then sleeping in it, intro to ice fishing.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Planned Trips.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Mon-Wed February Break<\/strong>\u2013 Nordic hut trip through Flagstaff Lake (for all levels).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mountain Film Festival \u2013 <strong>February 15, 2024.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trip leader training this Spring if anyone is interested in leading trips next year.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ETL tests (Ethan)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For higher education, there are new guidelines for trip leaders from the State of Maine. There is a special committee working with Bates, and if you are a trip leader now you need to take the ETL test to receive a permit (valid for 5 years). This is new and works in tandem with the Bates trip leader curriculum.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you need to pay for the exam? (Lili)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No, it is all covered. (Ethan)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dates of the exam planned.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>January 23\u2013 6-7:30<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>February 2\u2013 1-2:30<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>**If these dates do not work for you reach out to Catie (<a href=\"mailto:cluedee@bates.edu\">cluedee@bates.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**If these dates do not work for you reach out to Catie&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/outing-club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}