The the Legend 2009

the The Legend 2009

Bates College Thelegend BOC: Nearly 90 PLUS Outdoor : Years Later Adventures and Still Just Minutes From Bates The Legend was ﬁrst published three years ago by Zand B. Martin ‘08 as a revival the Outing Club Newsletter, “Cat Tracks.” The Legend features stories from different Batesies’ adventures abroad and here in Maine as well as notes from alumni, gear reviews, places to go, and much, much more. As an annual publication, we are always looking for more submissions. So get outside, and share your pictures and GOING memories with us when you return. Send Questions and STRONG Submissions to: The Outing Club 1920 – Present [email protected] Epiphany When Owls Become Roosters

How nice to walk in falling snow When owls become roosters and watch my breath condense. All dreams will take ﬂight I move along devoid of woe Morning comes singing controlled by a sixth sense. As dawn swallows night. In the forest all alone amid the snow and frost, When owls become roosters I move along devoid of woe... Stars draw back their light By God I think I’m lost! Foxes go hungry (Sincere apologies to Robert Frost) The moon says good night.

Richard Davignon ‘57 When owls become roosters Clouds pinken to white. Diamonds crown grasses A new day’s delight.

Sandra L. Shea ‘75 the Editors: Letter from the Editors During the pre-production phase of this year’s edition of The Legend, Sarah Charley there was a nagging fear in the back of our minds that we had exhausted Chris Carlson our wealth of stories and all our material in last year’s edition. The initial Bates College excitement that encircled last year’s revival of The Legend was considerably legend lacking as we campaigned for support and stories earlier this year. It was immediately apparent that this was not going to be an easy task. Asst. Editors: A beautiful, flawless, and elegant magazine was not just going to magically Deb Altman appear in our sleep, nor were the gems we received last year once again going to fall from the sky. This year we were going to need to do more digging and Lindsay Thomson a little bit of excavation work. But as we all discovered, a little persistence goes a long way in the publishing world. Just when we thought our reservoir of material had dried Writing Editor: up, we struck a geyser hidden right under the surface. We had barely tapped the talent, experiences, and recollections of our students and alumni. Our Ed Sturtevant search for a few good stories led us to a repository of ninety years of Bates students’ outdoor knowledge, experiences, and BOC memories. We found ourselves mulling through boxes and files buried deep in Asst. Writing Editor: Muskie Archives where the rich history of the Outing Club lay hidden. Alumni who had been leaders and legends in the Outing Club almost 50 years Erin Bourgault ago were excitedly recounting their achievements and adventures with the BOC. Students who had previously remained tacit were coming forward with their own amazing stories. Graphic Editors: The results of this search are presented before you as an amalgamation of nearly ninety years of outdoor experiences and outing club memories. Our Eliza O’Neil goal is that this magazine will bridge the generations, connecting current Mareike Phillips Bates students with our shared past and ubiquitous love of the outdoors. We hope that this magazine will serve as a repository of the lost knowledge and buried traditions; that it will aid in the continuing spirit and perpetuation of Creative Assistant: the strong outdoor community at Bates College; and that it will encourage further exploration outside the classroom and into the great outdoors. Cecily Mauran As the Bates Outing Club nears its 90th anniversary, it is important that we take a moment to pause and reflect on the past, present, and future of one of our campus’ biggest and most beloved organizations. I hope that you as Photo Editor: readers get as much pleasure from mulling through the pages of this magazine as we did producing it. Elise Ogden It is with great pride and repletion that we present you with the 2009 edition Special Thanks to: of The Legend. Judy Marden With Much Love, Ana Bisaillon Sarah Charley & Chris Carlson Will Ash O!ce Services Table of Contents

2 Welcome to Maine 34 Words from a Batesie Surﬁng, scuba diving, hiking and Batesies tell about their times and skiing in the great state of Maine experiences in the great outdoors and its neighbors 8 Get Outside 46 Class of 2009 in 20 years Best local places to hike, swim, Doug Badrigian ‘09 predicts where our canoe, or merely sit on a beach seniors will be in the year 2029 and watch the sun set 14 BOC Forever 59 Alumni Blurbs A look back at the Outing Club from 1920 until today

28 Raising Paul Bunyan Doug Smith ‘63 builds a Legend on Bates Campus Like any sport, scuba diving also offers some less-than-dreamy opportunities. There was that dive in murky San Diego waters guided by a man who addressed our 12 inch visibility Maine’s Surf with a cool, “Yeah, uh, don’t worry about it, if I lose ya just stick around and I’ll find ya.” He did lose me, and didn’t find me until he surfaced and saw me swimming the ! mile back to shore, an all around diving faux pas. I dove off a Fijian shelf, where I spotted my first shark and explored extraordinarily pristine coral canyons, only to be interrupted by two ultimately harmless but frustrating realities of diving: floating into a mat of stinging plankton and being forced to ascend early because of a jockey diving partner who gulped down his The Scuba Frontier presumptuous, I am sure that plenty oxygen twice as fast as I ever could. I certainly wouldn’t consider of us also hoped for wings that would Alas, these are some of the quirks of There are few things in life as satisfying as...the let us fly. Yes, skydiving may be the diving that are just endearing enough myself a surfer in the conventional In the midst of the calm awe that closest substitute for the latter, but to keep us suiting up for more. sense of the word. My speech is magical experience of sitting with friends in perfect engulfed my body as I sank into the scuba diving is a great compromise Any freshman arriving at Bates rarely graced with words like “tu- ocean equipped scuba gear for the silence and bobbing on glassy swells as the sun that incorporates both superpowers. for the first time knows within hours bular,” “pipe,” or “glass,” nor have first time, I discovered I could never While traveling in three dimensions, that these outdoor adventurers do not I ever styled my hair with sexy wax. rises over Portland. get water up my nose while breath- into canyons, over masses of animals, waste their time. Anyone on campus Rather, you’ll more often find me in a ing underwater. If this seems trivial to and in between crevasses, you can would be hard pressed to go a week button-down oxford than tanned and mon than twelve-foot tubes (though what insane group of people brings you, think harder. Remember all those more or less assume that you know without hearing a story of a Maine shirtless. For that matter, I burn too every once in a while the stars align surfers back to the Maine waters each underwater handstands and spins you how it feels to soar through the air. mountain skied, cliff climbed, lake quickly to bare my chest hair for the and the waves are as good as anything fall as the winter waves begin to build had to cut short in your childhood be- When I first learned of scuba canoed, or surf surfed. The sum of world to enjoy (even if Maine weather in Hawaii). Portland Maine averages again. cause you forgot to pinch your nos- diving as a youngin’, I didn’t realize these stories forms a great illustration didn’t average negative 10˚ Fahren- 222 cloudy days annually. Honolulu This fall surfboards were an in- trils? Or that glory of feeling like a that it could substitute my impossible of most of what Maine has to offer heit and cloudy last week.) I would, claims just 94. creasingly common around the Bates fish brutally interrupted by a terrible dreams. I thought of it as a desirable an outdoors person. But there lies however, tell you I surf—a fact that Despite the meteorological down- campus. Boards are piled on cars on burning throughout your sinuses and opportunity to see marine life, but one Maine environment that seems startles most people not familiar with sides of surfing in the Northeast, there Frye Street and stacked against the the inability to breathe? Well, our scu- never considered its potential as a to have been neglected. I’m think- the growing Maine surf scene. If you are many reasons a select group takes walls of the BOC boat barn. Snatches ba diving respirators allow us to spin physical activity. Only after I breathed ing about deep within our armpit, ask around at Bates you will find a to the water in Maine. There are few of conversation about the latest surf for as long as we like in any different surprising number of people who things in life as satisfying as feeling report or the day’s session are fre- painlessly through my first backward the Gulf of Maine. I can’t illustrate a have caught the surf bug. the acceleration of a perfectly-timed quently overheard in Commons. I diving-eye-view of that frigid lobster Unfortunately, Maine is not takeoff, the water blurring beneath have forty-two emails with “surf” ...I o!er this testimonial: a scuba dive will always empire just yet because I have never graced with the warm water and sun- you, or the magical experience of sit- in the subject line in my sent mes- leave you feeling superhuman. seen it. But, in hopes that we can pull shine conducive to aqueous recre- ting with friends in perfect silence sages folder. Though Higgins Beach together a Bates diving community that could soon relate some eyewit- ation. Surfing in Maine is a different and bobbing on glassy swells as the will never rival its southern cousins direction. If you wonder what it’s like spin 20 meters below sea level did ness accounts of our neighboring animal from its distant cousins that sun rises over Portland. Likewise, for waves and global warming is our to be an aquatic creature, know that I realize I had accomplished what I abyss, I offer this testimonial: a scuba inhabit coastal climes South of Ma- there are few things more confusing only hope for warmer water (coupled you will never feel more genuinely had thought unachievable. Now, ev- dive will always leave you feeling son Dixon and West of the Rockies. for my housemates than seeing me with the unfortunate side effect of aquatic than when you spontaneously ery time I sink into the ocean, I fall superhuman. So, let us bind together In Maine, hooded wetsuits are a must heading out the door at four in the submerging Maine under water from employ your backward spin to catch back into the familiar rhythm of slow and explore the abyss that is our arm- for braving water temperatures that morning with a surfboard under my melted ice caps), surfing is growing a double take of a passing shark. breathing and steady flipper kicking pit, our Gulf, a new frontier for the are often twenty degrees warmer than arm as they stumble back in for the phenomenon in Maine. I don’t think I was the only five- and feel proud of the human race for Bates Outing Club. the air, yet just barely break the 40- night with a new best friend under year-old who answered, “I want gills,” finding a way for us to pretend to be degree mark. Six-foot waves spaced theirs. The camaraderie that comes Brodie O’Brien ‘09 to anyone who asked what superpow- aquatic. Laura Poppick ‘10 four seconds apart are far more com- from membership in a small, some- er I would wish to have. If this is too 2 3 $30/night for members $33 for non-members

Beyond Skiing Check conditions and availabil- Exploring Maine’s Wilderness in Winter ity/book reservations with the AMC at www.outdoors.org

For those few BOCers who don’t spend their winters on the slopes of Sunday River, and otherwise having pow pow nar nar fantasies, there’s winter hiking. Local Maine climbs – such as Pleasant Mountain and Tum- bledown – are great for day-hikes, but if you’re looking to spend a night or weekend in the great outdoors and don’t feel invincible enough to pitch a tent in a snowdrift, head to the huts. From mid-October through May, the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Lone- some Lake, Zealand Falls, and Carter Notch Huts are open for self-service. The hikes are moderately difficult – Shred Club for Men and Women Lonesome being the easiest, Carter the hardest and Zealand somewhere in the middle. Frequently traveled, Listen up all you radical shred Jay Bladon, the brave president gan lately?” “Yeah man, he used to the trails are boot-packed and filled ‘cats and kittens: there’s a (kind of) of Snowboard Club, handed the shred on his skis, but he shreds those with friendly passers by, especially new club this year. Some of you may crown over to Greg “Butter-Steeze” crutches pretty hard.” on weekends. have heard of it, some of you prob- Flynn and myself while he was down Anyways, Shred Club for Men Each hut provides visitors with ably haven’t. We once masqueraded gettin’ his shred on in the Southern and Women’s goals are this: to spread mattresses, pillows, and access to as the elusive “snowboard club,” Hemisphere. It was then that we re- the art of shredding to the Bates cam- their kitchen. All you need to do is but now we have a new name, and a alized that “Snowboard Club” was pus, so that everyone may live a more throw a sleeping bag, some extra lay- brand new club (more or less). not inclusive of some related, equally wholesome, radical life. So far, we’ve ers, and a raw steak in your backpack, sweet activities, all which involve held a meeting in the Ronj where we strap snowshoes on your feet, and the shredding. Sick. Now, for all of you showed the epic shred-flick “That’s It rest will be taken care of. Even dur- shred-illiterate out there, the term That’s All” and got stoked on some ing the quieter weeknights, the ragged “shred” can be defined many ways. pizza. Look for more meetings com- yet friendly (and oftentimes bearded) It has roots in all sorts of extreme ing up. Short term is looking to be a hut caretaker is there and highly will- sports: surfing, skateboarding, snow- big time for Shred Club, as the snow ing to talk your ear off about their boarding, and scootering, and can be is melting, allowing one to land shred, philosophical musings on a short- After having slogged our way craved since summer. After stuffing used in an even broader sense. Liter- as well as snow shred. We’re hoping tailed weasel affectionately named through another week of classes, ourselves with massive egg sand- ally, you can shred almost anything, to get the mini ramp, which we spent Spike who lives just outside your Carrie Piper ’09, Amelia Harman wiches, we headed down the moun- if you put your mind to it! Paper a few days this fall building, up and bunkhouse. At night, guests gather in ’10, Brian Quarrier ’09 and myself tain and back to school, refreshed and shredding is an easy choice, as well running, but we’re still trying to stick the glowing and cozy main building trekked our way up to Zealand last ready for another week. The huts as guitar shredding for all you mu- it to the man on that one. If that goes and toast their toes by the woodstove, Halloween to visit fellow Batesie and offer a spectacular escape from the sicians out there. More abstractly, down, look for some serious shred-b- engage in pleasant conversation, and caretaker at the time, Helon Hoffer everyday, and an innovative way to shredding can apply to everyday ac- q’s, complete with music, shredding, sometimes play music and sing as the ’08. We had a blast cooking and enjoy the outdoors during the winter tivities, such as “yo dawg, did you and dope food. wind whistles outside in below-zero catching up, and hiked up to Zeacliff months. see how shreddable that probability temps. The scene is beyond compare the next morning for a spectacular distribution is?” “yea, wicked”, or Ben Latham ‘11 and the characters unforgettable. White Mountains view that we’d all Eliza O’Neil ‘09 even “Hey, have you seen Eliott Mor- 4 5 The Dungeon of Hathorn

The low ceiling, giant stump with nails in it, and multitude of people sliding strange objects up and down pairs of skis can make the E-room intimidating for anyone who is unfamiliar with the Bates Outing Club. But there is a common misconception that the e-room is the dwelling of only the most intense and rugged of mountain men and women. While it is true that passerbys late at night may catch a glimpse of various BOC o!cers congregating in the dungeon of Hathorn after hours, the E-room is not exclusive to people who are planning "ve day vision quests in the woods or setting canoeing records. You are more likely to bump into faculty checking out snow shoes and random students milling about while an E-room o!cer tries to "nd them ski boots. The E-room has a lot to o#er students who want to get outside but are lacking the proper gear and guidance. Here are some of the services it can provide. Ragged Mtn. Sports Essential & Local Gear Intervale, NH

Just up the road from the Limmer For the New Mainer Boot Company, you can find this outfitter that specializes in skiing, camping, and climbing. This is a Hiking, Camping, Climbing & Skis and Snowboards: If you come from a warmer climate with predictable weather patterns, this article great all-purpose store, but their real and Snowshoeing is for you. New England is famous for its harsh, long winters and rapid weather draw is their own line of clothing. Mountaineering changes, leaving many newcomers underprepared. To make matters worse, most Cut and sewn in New Hampshire, all If you crave the exhilaration of launch- of the well-known gear companies are based in Utah, where winters tend to be of their clothing is reasonably priced If you find sliding down a steep hill If you like scaling sheer rock faces, ing yourself down a snowy cliff, the warm and dry. They just don’t understand. So if you want to bundle up in some and good quality. Their coats are tied to two thin pieces of plastic ab- clinging to walls of ice, or just really E-room can equip you with your New England-worthy gear, check these out: particularly nice because they come solutely terrifying, but don’t want like holding ice axes, the e-room can very own pair of vintage neon skis, in a wide spectrum of colors and to spend all winter cramped inside, equip you with ropes, crampons, rock poles, and boots. For those partial to materials. So if you want a good deal check out the collection of snow- climbing shoes, and all the other gear a single board, there are snowboards on that chartreuse Elmo jacket you’ve shoes, sleds, and camping gear in you need to plan a great hardcore of various sizes, as well as brand new Wild Things Limmer Boots been dreaming about, go check out the E-room. For trips during the adventure. However, if you’ve never boots you can try out. Don’t know Ragged Mountain Sports. fall and short term, there are tents, done any of the aforementioned the first thing about skiing or snow- North Conway, NH Intervale, NH sleeping bags, stoves, and virtu- activities, we recommend that you boarding? Just ask the E-room staff, Whether you are terrified by the pros- The Limmer Boot Company has been ally anything else you need short of wait for a BOC trip before you try a and they’ll gladly help you out with pect of a Maine winter or are consid- hand-making boots in New Hamp- synthetic quick drying underwear. do-it-yourself expedition. all of your shredding needs. L.L. Bean Search more and you can find sleds, ering doing Annapurna over spring shire since 1919 and their design has great for riding down Mount David break, think about heading to Wild not changed much since. Bomb-proof Freeport, ME or that hill behind the president’s Things. Expensive, yes, but they are leather uppers are tacked onto classic house during Maine’s long, dark world renowned for the quality and Vibram soles, making for the most The obvious. Time tested boots and winters. There’s also an extensive The E-room is open from 4-5 on Mondays, durability of their Alpine gear. They seriously durable boots available. If any sort of clothing or gear you can collection of cross-country skis for Wednesdays, and Fridays and located on the make a variety of gear from bivy sacs you can’t shell out $700 for a custom imagine, and a massive home base those partial to flat land. For win- southeast corner of Hathorn. to backpacks, with all sorts of jackets pair, check out their Tyrolean walk- only half an hour from Bates. Best ter camping, there’s a new canvas and pants in between. Trusted by the ing boots imported from Bavaria, or of all, they’re open 24/7, so you can tent complete with a wood-burning U.S. Military, Wild Things can prob- go to their store and browse the con- head down to Freeport the night be- stove that will keep you at a com- ably handle the occasional snowy signment section. fore that big nor’easter and get some fortable 70 degrees Fahrenheit even hike to class as well. hand warmers for the walk to class. if it’s -10 outside.

6 7 The state of Maine holds vast areas of beautiful wilderness just waiting The Androscoggin to be explored by those willing to go out and "nd it. Some great places to hike and adventure are closer than you may think. Here are some River, Lewiston destinations near Bates that are worth checking out. Get Outside! The Androscoggin River, which divides GET OUTSIDE! Lewiston and Auburn, is recovering from years of substandard quality. It provides several nearby preserves with hiking trails and boat launches within Thorncrag Bird Hooper Pond Preserve, an easy drive from Bates:

Sanctuary Greene Boat Launch Locations:

Just a twenty minute walk from Bates you Here you’ll find 195 acres surrounding • Durham boat launch on Route 136 can find over 300 acres with walking trails, an undeveloped pond and wetland (where the rowing team practices). fireplaces, and views of Mt. Washington. with a channel winding through the • Behind Gritty’s, in Auburn: Take Central or East Ave north and enter marsh and a non-motorized boat paddle downstream to the trestle, at the end of East Avenue or at parking launch. Take Route 202 North to upstream to Great Falls. lot on Montello Street. Owned by the Greene. Turn left at flashing yellow • North River Road in Auburn Stanton Bird Club. light to Allen Pond Road, then right (behind Wendy’s): paddle the area on Hooper Pond Road. Boat launch between Great Falls and Deer Rips Dam. The Rancourt Preserve is about .25 miles on right.

These 14 acres on the Androscoggin River, with a trail and carry-in boat launch, provide access to the area between Great Falls and Deer Rips Dam. Off Main Street, take Northwoods Road (next to Marden’s) and then a left on Tall Pines Drive. Parking along the road. Owned by the Androscoggin Land Trust.

Gulf Island Pond

The impoundment of the Gulf Island Dam on the Androscoggin River, this large body of ﬂat water provides good canoeing and kayaking, as well as wildlife watching and island camping. Access is from Center Bridge Road between Greene and Hiking, Swimming, and Canoeing Hot- Turner, Cherry Pond on the south end of the North River Road in Greene, Spots That are Closer Than You’d Expect the Bates Boathouse on the North River Road in Greene, and Waterman Road in Turner.

8 9 destination close to campus to build 2,000 acres with trails and waterfront Sabattus Pond, a fire and sleep in the open air. A on Gulf Island Pond offering Sabattus, ME conservation easement ensures it will good hiking and mountain biking. be there until it rots. Take a night Parking is at Center Bridge or in a Not too far down the road from Bates, away from your stuffy dorm room parking lot a few hundred feet up the Sabattus Pond offers floats for water and enjoy some of the comforts and road towards Turner. access. It is also home to some bass thrills that mother nature can provide. and white perch, as well as a decent About a 20 minute drive from Bates, amount of Northern Pike, making it a it’s located off of Gagne Road. Take Baldface Circle Trail, prime destination for those interested a right when the road splits and at the Evans Notch, ME in fishing. Take Sabattus 20 minutes end of the road is the trail to the lean- Salmon Falls, Buxton Crooked River, Streaked Mountain, east and it’s hard to miss. to and parking. Located in the White Mountains, this is one of the best hikes Maine has to offer. Located at the Hwy 202 Bridge on the Waterford, ME Buck"eld. ME Bates Outing Club Riverlands Preserve, Baldface features rugged mountains, Saco River, Buxton, ME. The Saco panoramic views, alpine ridge walks River is nearly 50 feet deep, making The 17-mile stretch between east This short but strenuous summit is Lean-to, Greene, ME Turner , ME and a great swimming hole. The total it the perfect place to jump and Waterford and Scribners Mills great for those who want a quick but loop is about 9.8 miles. ropeswing off the bridge and multiple features a great mix of flatwater satisfying jaunt to a higher elevation. Built on land belonging to Bates On the historic foundations of a surrounding cliffs, all up to 40 ft. and rapids with several Class II-III The trail is a mere half mile but it alum and Outing Club advisor Judy flooded community (see Homestead Edward Sturtevant ‘11 high. Start at the east end and walk stretches and drops. A beautiful and goes straight up right from the start, Marden ’66, the lean-to is a great Trail brochure) you’ll find over (Contributing Editor) up towards the bridge, hitting all the remote river that will offer paddlers providing stunning views at the summit sweet spots along the way and ride the a little more of a challenge. Take even your most “indoorsy” friend can current back to your car. Make sure ME-177 onto Temple Hill Road and appreciate. Take ME-4 onto ME-117 you get to Salmon Falls at least once. follow until you get to the bridge. which becomes Streaked Mountain Road. Once you spot radio towers on top of a mountain keep your eyes peeled for a trail head off to the left.

Range Pond State Park, Poland, ME

About a 20 minute drive from Bates, this picturesque little lake offers a substantial sandy beach as well as picnic tables and basic facilities. Perfect for a relaxing afternoon in the sun, or a refreshing swim if you don’t mind the cold. Frequented by countless Batesies during short term.

Bradbury Mountain State Park, ME

Conveniently located about halfway between Lewiston and Portland, this 610 acre park offers a multitude of trails and scenery for hikers. Horseback riders and snowmobilers will find great trails here. The park has several campgrounds, and rents out snowshoes in the winter. 10 11 Living in Lewiston-Auburn, it’s The lake’s shores are dotted with and the Pontook Reservoir, about 10 easy to hold a somewhat negative dozens of rustic campsites, many miles downriver, is a collection of perception of the Androscoggin Riv- which offer the lucky outdoorsman a class I, II, and III whitewater. It’s a er. It smells a bit. Especially on warm chance to watch the sun melt behind fast, exciting, and beautiful day’s days. There’s more trash lining the the Mahoosucs while perched atop paddle, finishing just north of Berlin, riverbanks and drifting downstream an open privy. The Androscoggin NH. than in most landfills. Ambitious pad- draws from the western shore of the A weekend on Lake Umbagog The Scenic dlers weave through an urban jungle lake, separated from the mouth of and the Upper Androscoggin will of junkyards, unmarked dams, and the smaller Magalloway River by leave visitors with a different sense of random pipes vomiting suspect liquid a large bald eagle nesting area. The what the river has to offer. Try spend- into the river. For those brave enough Bald Eagle reserve is part of Lake ing Saturday exploring, fishing, and to take the plunge (or clumsy enough Umbagog State Park, which has relaxing on the lake, and then camp to fall in), I will tell you with authority, kept the area largely unpopulated at one of the numerous maintained Androscoggin it does sting. More than you’d expect. and well protected. From the lake, a sites. Wake up early Sunday and en- And neither you, nor anything that morning’s paddle meanders through joy a full day’s paddle to the Pontook went in the drink with you, will smell scenic wilderness and past old Reservoir, or take the day to play on normal for several days. For those logging settlements until reaching the the Erroll rapids. An appreciation living in the city, the Androscoggin is Errol Dam. A 200-yd portage readies for the pristine water, natural beauty, more a historical relic than a place for boaters for a short Class II rapid below wildlife, and exciting rapids upriver recreation. It’s a symbol of Lewiston- the dam, followed by a longer Class may lead to greater efforts to protect, Auburn’s heyday, that now listlessly III-IV rapids running directly under clean up, and enjoy the waterway chugs along, waiting for its chance to rise to importance once again. What was once one of the most important ...few realize the scenic, clean, and unspoiled and beautiful waterways in Maine headwaters of the ‘Scog are less than a two hour seems largely forgotten by the Bates community; few realize the scenic, drive northwest. clean, and unspoiled headwaters of the ‘Scog are less than a two hour the Rt. 26 bridge. Home to a branch where it cuts through our city. Or in drive northwest. of Saco Bound, the Errol rapids very least, it’s nice to jump into the The source of the Androscoggin are a popular spot for paddlers and ‘Scog and for once emerge cleaner is Umbagog Lake, just east of Errol, spectators alike. Below the rapids, a than you went in. NH. Situated at the northern end of quiet 4 or 5 miles of river winds its the Mahoosuc range, Umbagog is way to Mollidgewock State Park, Luke Hasselbeck ‘09 a large, shallow lake that straddles stretched thin along a few miles of the Maine/New Hampshire border. riverbank. In between Mollidgewock

12 13 boc forever

Just one year away from the Outing Club’s 90th anniversary, we take a look back at where we came from, where we are, and where we’re headed.

14 15 Torch Run 1958 Puddle Jump 2009

Carnival Queen Ruth Potter 1952 Winter Carnival 1934 The Winter Carnival has been a main event on the Bates campus since the BOC’s conception in 1920. The weekend features time- honored traditions including the crowning of the Carnival Queen and her court, an intense snow-sculpture contest, ski trips, and the Torch Run. Although the Winter Carnival has changed over the years, events such as skiing and sledding down Mount David and the famous Puddle Jump are a continued tradition.

Tobogganning down Mount David, 1981 Snow Sculpture outside Parker, 1939 16 17 Cat Tracks Outing Club Newsletter, Winter 1962

“Fire Water” 1956

“Sphinx” 1957 Robert Ireland ‘40 Ski Jumping 1939

“Paul Bunyan” 1962

18 19 Alumni and friends of the Outing Club share their time in the BOC Nearly 90 Years of Outing Club Memories

This is a photograph I have in my family’s photograph album — it was taken in October 1959, and shows my father, Richard Sampson, and T.P. Wright, holding some sort of animal hide in front of a sedan "lled with Bates Outing Club members. My father (on the left) was the advisor to the Out- ing Club for many years, and T.P. (Ted) Wright was a co-advisor for a period of time.

The Bates Outing Club was a involving us in their activities. Trish lunch at Howard Johnson’s at the huge and happy part of my life, as I Morse, Ray Danforth, Hildy Spooner, base of the ravine; canoe trips on the had the good fortune to be a son of Jody Pearly, Ken Spaulding, Colin Cobbosseecontee River; the clam- Richard Sampson, adviser to the Out- Fuller, and Lester Kenway are among bakes at Popham; and short hikes up ing Club throughout my childhood those I remember fondly, along with to the cabin on Sabattus Mountain to and beyond. As a son of Sampson, co-advisor Ted Wright. Particular ex- ﬁx up that remote outpost. A particu- I was able to tag along on countless cursions that stand out in my memory larly fond memory is that of my fa- Outing Club trips in the late 1950s include: the bus trips to Sugarloaf, ther heading out the door after dinner and early 1960s with my brother Ca- with box lunches and nights in a every Wednesday night with a jar of leb and mother Jean. The students small cabin, heated by a wood stove, pickles under his arm, off to anoth- invariably welcomed us as members near what was then Sugarloaf’s bun- er Outing Club meeting in Hathorn of the Outing Club family, happy to ny slope; hikes in early spring up to Hall. Which leads to my most en- have the ‘Sampson kids’ along and Tuckerman’s Ravine, with a stop for during memory: year after year, seeing how much my father loved those Outing Club trips and being with the ...my father loved those Outing Club trips and be- students, many of whom remained in ing with the students, many of whom remained touch with him throughout his life. Women waxing skis in the 1920s in touch with him throughout his life. Stephen Sampson

20 21 Bates Outing Club, 1920

Aside from the three Thanksgiv- I moved down too fast and the one above me ing weekend trips to Katahdin, I think one of my best trips with BOC was shouted, “Hey prof, move back up, I’m dangling a spring vacation spelunking expedition to West Virginia in about 1958. It in space.” was done jointly with the University of Virginia OC which luckily had de- The most exciting cave was de- have said above that the temperature tailed maps of the caves, which were cidely wet; in fact, a stream went in the caves was a steady 58 degrees, in limestone formations along the through it and we were lowered over if I remember. Virginia/W.Virginia border. A num- a waterfall with ropes and slogged The trip down and back was a ber of carloads drove down and we down the stream up to our knees in blur of interstates, but my new Morris camped out at state campgrounds. We water. Then, the water disappeared minor, “Mighty Mouse,” did yeoman used carbide lamps on our helmets so down a whirlpool and we were as- service on the back roads of West our hands would be free. sured that if we held our breath, we’d Virginia. As always, I was greatly im- One cave was dry and included come out in a small, domed chamber pressed by the camping and “learn- chimneys in which you had to stand with only our heads above water and by-doing” spelunking skills of the on the shoulders of somebody below had to swim downstream before we BOC council. you and had somebody else’s feet on could stand up again. The reverse trip your shoulders. I moved down too back was even more harrowing as Best wishes, “T.P.” Wright, former fast and the one above me shouted, we were moving against the current. co-faculty advisor, BOC, 1957-65. Snow sculpture outside Pierce House, 1981 “Hey prof, move back up, I’m dan- Needless to say, we were a cold, mud- gling in space.” dy crew when we emerged. I should 22 23 buy some ‘real hiking boots’ soon af- I fell in love with the BOC, and from that day on, terwards) and were having so much my weekends revolved around Outing Club trips fun we decided to bushwhack to Little Jackson. Our Fearless Lead- and Outing Club activities. ers (Doug Findlay and Cilla Bonney, ’65, perhaps?) were welcoming and encouraging, even though we didn’t The second weekend of my ﬁrst mountain climb on Sunday—want to have good equipment and had no ex- semester at Bates was coming up, and go?” And I said “sure!” Never hav- perience. The upperclass members I was already reeling from the amazing climbed anything taller than Big were friendly, seeming to want new ing social whirl of Freshman Year. Blue Hill near my hometown of Hyde enthusiasts, no matter how initially Not only were there orientation ac- Park, Massachusetts, a thickly-settled inept. The “nice” sophomores of the tivities constantly planned for us, and Boston suburb, I knew little of what I BOC (Newt Clark, Sue Huiskamp, hazing by the sophomores (remem- was getting into. Carol Bishop, Brad Wyman, Cilla ber, this was September 1962), but We piled into a bus, and were in- and Doug, and many others) were a we could actually be out until 9:30 troduced to the Bates Outing Club, pleasant contrast to the “mean” soph- at night without telling anyone where en route to Tumbledown Mountain. omores of Page. I fell in love with we were going! I was nearly over- It was a gloriously blue, brilliantly the BOC, and from that day on, my whelmed with the freedom! foliaged fall day in Maine—the kind weekends revolved around outing My freshman roommate barreled you see on calendars and in college club trips and outing club activities. into our double in the basement of catalogues. We hiked up Tumble- In the early ‘60s, BOC Council Page (the one with the private toilet down, probably in sneakers (because members were elected to Council, six and the bunk-beds, I think people I remember begging my parents for men and six women from each class. live there still) and said, “There’s a enough money to go to Bean’s and The competition was tough, and the

BOC Clam Bake, Fall 2008

first real heartbreak of my college ca- torship had to have one male and one knowing what they didn’t know. And reer was not being elected to Council female director). We were both avid perhaps they had a chance encounter as a freshman. Despite the disap- outdoors people, so many weekends with the BOC—maybe at the Activi- pointment, mountain climbs and ca- found us leading four trips—each of ties Fair—and tried a trip as a begin- noe trips continued to be my passion, us going in separate directions, both ner. Perhaps they borrowed gear from and I finally became a Council mem- days. the E-Room, following good advice ber as a sophomore. What I lacked From time to time, I wonder how about what they would need from a in popularity, I made up in tenacity— many Bates students and graduates helpful mentor...and fell in love with once I got on Council, I never let go! have a similar story…perhaps they the outdoors as a result. By going on outings with more came from families who didn’t spend I hope so, because the BOC en- experienced leaders and learning much time outdoors, or weren’t camp- riched my life and made it take paths from them, being involved with the ers, paddlers, bikers, climbers. Per- I never knew existed before coming BOC gave me the confidence to run haps they, like me, lived in the city or to Bates. for Hikes and Trips Director. I was the suburbs, with little opportunity to BOC Tumbledown Trip, Fall 2008 thrilled to be elected along with Pete explore the wild. Perhaps they came Judy Marden ‘66 Anderson ‘67 (because each Direc- to Bates with no equipment, not even 24 25 periences influenced their later lives and careers even more than their choice of majors. The BOC’s 90th Anniversary in 2010 deserves a huge celebration— and planning has begun! We sent out a survey to the mailing list as it existed in the fall, with the purpose of determining what kinds of activities and programs would bring BOC people together for a celebration. After compiling the results, and having an initial planning meeting at Homecoming in October, the plans are developing and underway. And what DO people want? Trips and food, of course! Both on-campus core events, with meals, stories, and networking, combined with outings, day and multi-day trips, some during the core events and some at other times. In short, we discovered that it will take an entire year to properly of the members of the group and to wasn’t hired. Being fiscally conser- celebrate the BOC’s 90th! Thank you Bates get them invested in the idea before I vative with other people’s money has To get involved in the planning College. But really, introduced a matter initiating change. served me well to this day. and organization of the 90th anniver- I learned to count the votes in the Long before Bates had rock- sary celebration contact Judy Marden thank you BOC room before calling for the vote. climbing walls inside the gym, Char- ([email protected]) or check out Our hikes and trips seem tame lie Love brought rock climbing to the BOC Forever page on BatesCon- As President of the BOC (1964– compared to the outdoor activities the Outing Club from Jackson Hole, nect: (http://www.batesconnect.net). 1965), I learned that to get anything that Bates students experience today. Wyoming. His Saturday forays to the There’s also an e-mail list anyone done, an organization accomplishes With Professor Sampson, I remember local quarry with eager outing club- can join (boc90thvolunteers@lists. its goals through people, not by what leading a touch football game on a bers to learn rappelling gave me the bates.edu) to put in their two cents the leader does directly. My people trip in early December to Ogunquit confidence to try just about anything. about the planning of this huge cel- skills, honed by many Council Meet- Beach, believe it or not, a rather in- And so, while Dr. Woodcock taught ebration. ings and practiced during a wide novative trip at the time. While only me physics, which served me well The BOC has had a large impact range of outdoors activities, knocked a limited number attended, all had a when I started my career as High on many people’s time at Bates and off many of the rough edges I initially great time and it created quite a buzz School Physics teacher, it was the Jolly Times and Good Fellowship in the Out- influence over their lives and deci- brought to Bates. Getting along with on campus. When you think about Bates Outing Club that gave me in- sions after graduation. The anniver- all kinds of folks proved to be the key it, playing touch football on a Maine credible opportunities. It helped me of-Doors: BOC to Celebrate 90th next year sary is bound to be a huge celebra- to being a successful leader. beach in December is a little aberrant. to acquire the skills to survive and tion and 2010 will be here before we This experience taught me to take succeed in the practical aspects of know it! A comeuppance was a most In December of 1919, a group carnival. chances and think outside the box. life in the working world, particularly valuable learning experience. I had of Bates students and professors Now nearly 90 years later, there Norm Ross (then the Bursar and serving as a school administrator for Judy Marden ’66, BOC Advisor championed a particularly innova- who loved the outdoors gathered as is much to celebrate. Thousands of known for his extreme fiscal pru- many years until I retired in 2006. [email protected] tive measure and wanted the Outing a self-appointed committee to create Bates alums and students are linked dence) taught me to be more cautious Thank you Bates College. But Club Council to approve it. An ally an organization to promote “jolly to the College by their strong ties to with money. I learned to have the really, thank you BOC on the council made the motion as I times and good fellowship in the the BOC, by the friends they made cash in hand from student ticket sales proscribed; it was duly seconded and out-of-doors.” At the opening of the during outdoor activities, and by before a band was hired for a particu- Newton Clark ‘65 debated. Much to my surprise and year 1920, the Bates Outing Club the special locations in Maine, New lar function. I would have tapped into dismay, the motion was defeated. became an active unit, with special Hampshire, and elsewhere they ex- the BOC treasury and become a spec- Perhaps it was an idea whose time committees to look after skating, perienced through BOC adventures. ulator. Since not enough tickets were had not yet come. From that experi- tobogganing, hiking, and a winter Many alums say that their BOC ex- ence, I learned to listen to the needs sold to cover the cost of the band, it 26 27 PAUL BUNYAN

“Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But he’ll remember, with advantages, What feats he did that day.”

-Shakespeare, Henry V

28 29 In the winter of 1962...

In the winter of`1962, we few, ing Winter Carnival festivities. De- among the many who helped raise happy, band of future surgeons, phy- termined to revive this tradition, I Paul Bunyan. sicians, school teachers, scientists, convinced Outing Club council lead- Armed with a sketch furnished ministers, security analysts and even ers Lou Winkler ‘63 and my room- by an artist friend, I transferred the a future hotel manager built Paul Bu- mate Neale Schuman ‘63 that one big outline of Bunyan onto squares I had nyan—a towering snow sculpture in snow sculpture would give new life drawn on building paper on the ﬂoor celebration of the Bates Outing Club to this long lost tradition. For techni- of the family garage. Four years as Winter Carnival. Over the years, Paul cal support, I knew I could count on stage manager in high school build- Bunyan’s visage has graced the cover George Hunter ‘63, a student I got ing scenery and many summers spent of the alumni magazine, several an- to know well while clearing brush at a Marblehead boat yard provided nual calendars, and was most recently on the Appalachian Trail each fall me with the basic carpentry skills to highlighted in the alumni slide show before classes started. Many others, build the framework of the statue. pep talk delivered around the coun- both men and women from the BOC After covering the framework with try. How Paul Bunyan came to stand Council and some not involved in the chicken wire, I was ready to transport tall on the campus in 1962 is part of Outing Club, stepped up to help. My the creation to campus. Paul Bunyan the rich history and traditions of the roommates Ed Belden’63 and Bob arrived at Bates College tied to roof Bates College Outing Club. Livingston ‘63 and my friends Dale of my ’47 Buick. Inspiration for the construction Spencer ‘63, John Farr ‘63, Janice Once on campus, the most daunt- of Paul Bunyan came from a visit Nelson ‘63 and Nancy Levin ’63 are ing challenge was to stand the frame- to Dartmouth in the winter of 1961 remembered with warm thoughts as work in place and cover it with snow. where a friend made the suggestion that Paul Bunyan was a traditional staple of the Winter Carnival at Paul Bunyan arrived at Bates College tied to Dartmouth. From old scrap books, roof of my ’47 Buick. I learned that snow sculptures were once a Bates’ campus tradition dur-

30 31 My theory of using a framework in- to the chicken wire. This instigated a Paul Bunyan was the focus of stead of merely piling snow to create momentary freeze in the work effort that year’s Winter Carnival and oc- a ﬁgure was a time-saving device. and a conference was called. After cupied a place of honor for a short Norman Ross, long-time Bursar tossing around multiple ideas, the time. All those who worked long of the College, quietly ordered full solution evolved to stuff crumbled hours on his construction went back cooperation from the grounds and newspaper into the interior, thus to studying and taking exams as life maintenance staff of the college. provide backing against which the resumed. Soon a warming trend with Thus we furnished staging, ropes, snow could be packed. The word rain came, and all that was left of Paul pulleys, buckets and concrete mix- went out: hundreds of old newspa- Bunyan was the wooden frame cov- ing troughs and the work began. pers were gathered, the interior was ered in chicken wire. To my regret, Almost instantly (and to my shock) stuffed, and work was able to re- snow sculpturing never was revived, the framework theory was put to the sume. Unexpected challenges, such but Paul Bunyan still stands as a chal- test, and, unfortunately, failed ini- as sunny days and inconsistent snow lenge to future generations of Bates tially. Snow packed on the frame- consistency, were met and quickly students. work fell through and did not stick resolved. Douglas G. Smith ‘63

32 33 Bates College and the Great Outdoors

“Every Man Dies; Not Every Man It’s 6:15 AM on a cold, clear fall morning in the White Mountains in Really Lives.”#William Wallace western Maine, and the sun is about to rise. On a small ledge just off of the Baldface Circle trail, fifteen Bates students are huddled for warmth, waiting for that radiant orb to show its warm face. One is passing around a thermos full of hot chocolate, while another is snapping away pictures with his camera. Soon they are awed as nature’s greatest ritual unfolds in front of them, and as the first rays of sun illuminate the peaks on whose summits they had trod a few hours earlier, they feel their sleepless night has been justified. Though they are to nearby mountains, lakes, rivers and experienced outdoorsmen into com- tired from a rugged but beautiful full- beaches, it’s readily apparent that a petent leaders. moon hike on one of New England’s large portion of the students at Bates The outdoor experience at Bates finest trails, on this Tuesday morning, have the outdoors on their mind. The is unlike any that you can find at there will be no rest for the weary; ev- Bates Outing Club is the largest stu- any other college. While many rival eryone has class in a few hours. After dent run organization on campus both schools run their outdoor program a quick jaunt down the few remain- in terms of budget allocation and ac- like a glorified summer camp, we ing miles to the trail head, and a cold tive members. Nearly every weekend, learn for ourselves—by doing, and but refreshing dip in Emerald Pool on BOC vans head out to all corners of from our inevitable errors we stum- the way out, these students will spend Maine and New Hampshire for hik- ble our way towards competency and their days in lecture or lab, fighting ing, camping, canoeing, and surfing mastery of all things outdoors. The BOC continues to be the largest fully Here, from the very beginning, students are student run collegiate outing club, from a and AESOP defies odds by being the taught how to do things for themselves from only completely student run freshmen orientation program in the coun- experience, and as a result become better leaders try. Here, from the very beginning, students are taught how to do things and outdoor educators. for themselves from experience, and as a result become better leaders and when it’s warm, while snowshoeing, outdoor educators. off the urge to nod their heads and downhill and cross-country skiing, Because of the exuberant outdoor drift back to dreams of the magical and winter camping when its not. It is spirit inside nearly all Bates students, night they just had. the primary means by which students chances are you’ll be more madly The fact that more than a dozen engage in outdoor recreation and has in love with the mountains, rivers students are willing to derail their remained a focal point of campus life and beaches that surround us than sleep and homework schedules in or- since its inception in 1920. As it ap- you could have ever imagined. And der to spend a full night hiking in the proaches its 90th year, the BOC re- when thirty years from now you’re moonlight shows that at Bates Col- mains the only student run college still spending as much time outside as lege, we have our priorities straight. outing club in the country, a tradition you were in college, you’ll have only From the enthusiasm shown at the to which it firmly clings. The club has your school to blame. Outing Club’s annual booth at the ac- introduced generations of students to tivities fair to the large number of trips joys of outdoor recreation and turned William “Dots” Loopesko ‘10 34 35 nibbling the brush. It was a young climb out of the muck and on to an group, or to move slowly in the hope moose whose antlers were still fuzzy. Deer Tracking overgrown old apple orchard when I that they are just around the corner Matt spoke in a quiet, urgent voice, was stopped by the noise. and won’t notice the human until it’s A faint cough zipped through telling me to stay calm and to take I had been tracking this particu- on them. Tonight, after the cough, snow tufted branches. I froze, tense my jacket and spread it open over my lar group of deer for three days now, I went slowly. If the cough was an and listening with my entire being. head in such a way as to make my- developing a sense of their patterns alarm call, they would probably have Had I really heard the noise, or did self look big. Flapping his own jack- and habits. I had ran into them a few vacated the area pretty fast, but some- I imagine it in my eagerness to see et like elephant ears over his head, times after unexpectedly catching thing kept me wary. I thought I’d see its wearer? No sound aside from the Matt chanted, “Moo-sie, moo-sie” up to them; four brown bodies each if they had changed their minds and smallest wind tickling the branches in a low voice. This, he said, would with a poof of white fur alarming on stayed. I came to a multi-flora rose of snow tufted trees entered my au- make the moose notice us off in the their behinds as they bounded grace- and honeysuckle thicket. The deer ditory capabilities. If I stood there distance and reduce the chance of it fully through the trees and leapt over had taken a small path through this much longer, the makers of the sound getting startled and charging us. Then fences and briar bushes. One clumsy mass of vegetation. Had they intend- would be putting distance between Matt informed me that if the moose human in a green park service jacket ed to bed down in the safety of the themselves and me. I started moving should in fact charge at me, I should again, tenderly testing each step, hop- not move until the very last second, at ing the snow would absorb the sound which point I should jump out of the of my walking, and wincing at every I could almost feel the warmth of their unsus- way. unnecessary crunch of a twig giving “But how do I know when the pecting bodies penetrating my $esh as I crawled out underneath my cross-country ski last second is?” I asked nervously. boots. I cursed the packs of snow that “I’ll tell you when,” Matt replied. hands and knees through the snow and mud. clumped up between the bars and had “Wait—no. I’ll just shove you out of to be shaken off every few yards. the way,” he declared. The image of trailing after them getting stuck in the thorns? Maybe, but that wouldn’t be The cough, if so it was, had come this possibility was not very reassur- briars and covered in mud, only occa- as safe as in an open area with more from precisely the direction I would ing. Yet, amidst the anxiety and thrill sionally surprising them just to be left options of directional escape. have expected a group of deer to be of the situation, it all seemed rather in the dust again. I had chased them a I could almost feel the warmth of hanging out at 6:00 in the evening. comical—here we were, two hikers few miles the first day until I hit the their unsuspecting bodies penetrat- The shape and pattern of their tracks, flapping our jackets over our heads private property of some seriously ing my flesh as I crawled hands and scattered and erratic, but sticking and calculating the exact moment we territorial West Virginians. knees through the snow and mud, ev- to the same idea of direction, had should dodge from the moose in the This was the first day I had ery now and then stopping to widen been leading me quietly through a event of a worst-case scenario. looked for them after dark. It is al- the reception in my ears. The edge of swamped out streambed in the woods Thankfully, our visit with the ways a toss up whether to follow the the thicket came in to view, a small around my house in Elkins, West young moose passed peacefully. We tracks quickly and risk startling the thorn framed window to a world of Virginia. I had made a slow, careful were even able to snap a few photo- possibilities. I held my breath in an- graphs. Unfortunately, because it was ticipation, expecting the animals to say, “Shhh…I think there’s some- dusk, the pictures came out rather be searching for food or beds, know- A First Moose thing outside the tent.” His still, tense dark. In one picture, however, you ing I would see them when my range expression would cause me to imme- can faintly see the side profile of the of view increased. I popped out of the Being hearing-impaired, I have diately freeze. Matt would go outside moose, with a white dot as the eye thicket and looked…. nothing. No always relied on others to alert me to and investigate…and find nothing. shine from the flash. Although Matt movement, no still inquisitive stares. fainter sounds of significance. When This happened a few times. So, when and I could see the moose, we knew I had been detected, left and forgot- I was a little kid riding my bike to the Matt later announced that he thought that people back at home would prob- ten about probably half an hour ago. beach, my parents made sure that I he heard a moose, I didn’t believe ably not be able to see it and therefore I walked home along an old logging knew whenever a car was approach- him. I thought it was just another one would not believe our story. It was road in pleasant defeat, piecing to- ing. Likewise, when backpacking of his false alarms. As always, he then that I understood how the peo- gether their patterns as I had discov- in the White Mountains, my boy- stepped outside to investigate. Then ple who take those obscure pictures ered so far, preparing for tomorrow’s friend Matt makes sure that I know he dashed back into the tent and told of UFOs and the Loch Ness Monster hunt. Surely by morning they would if there’s a bear outside the tent. One me to get out as quickly as possible. must feel. However, at the end of the have passed over the next hill and June evening this past summer in Frantic, I jumped up and jammed my day, all that matters is that we know bedded down near the old bus stop. I the Pemigewasset Wilderness, Matt feet into my boots as fast as I could, we saw a moose, and lived to tell the would wish them a good day after we was especially alert for big creatures. not stopping to lace them up. About tale. all had rested the night. We would be inside the tent, talking, fifty yards off, there was a moose when he would suddenly stop and walking along the rocks in the river, Diane Brackett ‘11 Barbara Byers ‘10 36 37 had not anticipated. One night, I obstacle. I squinted to see, but soon the rocks. The smashed windows and took my girls down to the lake front In the Shadows of enough I realized that another sedan contorted frame of the ten-seated van for some star gazing. Instinctively the Death Road lay submerged beneath the waves. served as telltale signs of the sheer I began reiterating creation stories I “Oh…no. This is a new one,” our force of the drop. Surely, I thought had heard while trekking in Yosemite “This car fell from the road about guide uttered with disbelief. A sense to myself, no one survived this fall. and random facts I remembered from four months ago,” our raft guide re- of urgency overcame us as we heeded Again I leaned over and peered inside Gene Clough’s Lunar and Planetary marked over the din of Rio Corroico’s our commands to paddle ashore. As to look for bodies. I saw none. Some- Science class. And to my surprise, gushing torrent. I glanced over to the we drew closer, we noticed one mea- one must have dragged them out ear- my girls listened—not just listened, right-hand shore: amidst the boulders ger rope tied from the car to a tree, lier. but were fascinated. They began and stones lay a rusted heap of metal, keeping the wreckage from floating Suddenly an unidentified object asking questions, contemplating their its four tires and underbelly faced up- downstream. “One rainstorm,” our fell from the sky and hit me straight natural environment, and bringing wards towards the sky. About forty guide remarked, “and that thing is a on the shoulder. In my already height- me to the brink of my knowledge. feet above the riverbank, cars tra- goner.” He hopped ashore, we fol- ened state of shock, I flinched out of That night we came back to main versed a dirt road carved out of a pre- lowed. We checked for bodies, none pure panic. Something is falling! I camp late. I assured my frightened cipitous cliff. Only grass separated could be found. Nor could we find looked upwards and braced myself campers that there were no bears, and the road and the fatal drop. “You can’t signs of distress. If someone tied a for another falling van, passengers that even if there was a bear I would drive drunk on the death road, or else rope to secure the car…then someone and groceries in all… fight him off. And as they clung to this happens!” Our guide laughed. I must have helped them out. I com- I heard only laughter. “You should my battered jacket I knew they had looked at my three other travel com- forted myself with such thoughts. have seen your face! Absolutely the utmost faith in me. panions with a degree of awe and They probably survived. I looked up priceless.” Dan Sandberg’s goofy I never anticipated how much I disbelief. This marked the first time towards the road. I looked back at grin let out a few more guffaws as he most unforgiving environments one had changed during those six years we saw proof of lives claimed by Bo- My Greatest can be in—a cabin full of preteen since my childhood with Mountain livia’s fabled Death Road. Achievement girls. I was a foreigner to Nsync Camp. At the start of my last session In December of 2008, three other Patrick McAnaney let out a blood curdling scream. and padded bras, even flip-flops and working there, I slept on my cabin’s American students and I are traveled Suddenly this wreckage got a lot creepier. It was a very odd feeling—like scented soaps evaded me until high deck so I could stare at the stars be- across Bolivia, a landlocked, highly returning to a place lost in an ancient school. Needless to say, it was often fore I drifted off to sleep each night. indigenous nation nestled amongst memory…a place that was familiar a vain struggle to fit in. And after four Over the course of their two weeks, the highest Andean peaks. Our story yet strange…like I had been there years of struggling I absconded from my campers gradually began ven- began in the Rio Corroico, a river that the submerged car. I looked for bod- reached for another potato to throw before in some distant dream… Mountain Camp in search of bigger turing outside the cabin and laying cuts straight through a mountainous ies, blood or any other sign of life in at me. I grabbed one and hurled it at and better adventures… down their sleeping bags down next subtropical region made famous for the car, but the river had long since him. I missed. Oh wait… …And my adventures had led me to mine. By the last day of the ses- its coca fields (the derivative of co- washed away any traces. Our guide We circled the wreckage once right back to this same spot. I must sion, only my co-counselor remained caine and target of DEA coca-erad- recorded the license number, make more as our guide recorded the nec- Yep, it was the same place, and be crazy. Once again I was going to inside. I was amazed at the amount ication efforts) and roads that force and model in a small notebook he essary details in his notebook. “Two very little had changed during my six be immersed in cabins full of bicker- of influence I had over my campers’ travelers to defy death and bite their kept in a waterproof satchel. Clearly in one night? What the hell was go- year absence: same cabins, dining ing preteens. Suddenly I could hear lives and decisions, even if it was for nails around every turn. this was not his first time reporting ing on?” We shared his consterna- area, lake, ropes course. The only my nine-year-old self yelling, “turn just two weeks at a time. Just by set- “Okay, all forward! Vaya! Vaya!” such wreckages to the local authori- tion. Patrick McAnaney let out a thing different was me—well, to an back now before it’s too late!” But ting an example, I could inspire ad- Ours eyes couldn’t fixate on the rust- ties. “Well, I guess we’ll just keep blood curdling scream. Suddenly this extent. I first stood at the threshold this time, it was different. I wasn’t a ventures outside the typical teenage ed remains for too long, the rising wa- going.” We all took a long stare, then wreckage got a lot creepier. of Mountain Camp ten years ago—a preteen. I was a counselor. True— Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers ters required our constant vigilance. took our seats back in the raft. We I couldn’t believe it until I saw nine year old girl not yet aware of I was still an avid hiker and foosball realm into a world of acoustic guitar, We paddled forward. Our guide gave pushed off. it for myself. Sitting atop one of the the benefit of deodorant or bras, and champ, and admittedly somewhat lax hiking, and windsurfing. I’ve ac- his commentary on every village we “Holy shit, another one?” Our tires, a pair of dentures glistened in much more interested in hiking and on my deodorant usage from time to complished many things in my life, passed, and assigned fearful-yet-com- guide expressed his disbelief. No more the tropical sun. Dentures. foosball than lip gloss and the Back- time, but I had found that the quirks but inspiring a sense of wonder and ical names to seemingly every bend than two hundred yards downstream, To this day, I have no explanation street Boys. My blue duffle was which had made middle school miser- adventure in the hearts of my girls in the river. The tropical sun pierced another automobile carcass lay on for their existence. I’d like to think an twice my size and I stood shaking at able for me actually aided in establish I consider to be one of my finest through the rising mists from the run- its side beneath the formidable cliff, elderly rescuer simply forgot to put the prospect of living in a cabin with a firm sense of self and identity later achievements. And of course, I pride ning water, creating colorful spectra surely a fatal drop. We drew closer them back in. We hopped in our raft ten strangers for a week. on in life. Yes, I was back, but this myself on tacitly convincing all ten as we roared forward. We picked the and again paddled ashore, despite and floated downstream. I attended Mountain Camp for time I was ready. All I had to do was of my campers to sleep outside just perfect day to raft. Recent downpours the rushing current. We pulled our four years as an adolescent, and de- make sure my campers weren’t being so that they could see the stars. had created high water flow. Adrena- raft ashore and inspected the second Will Field ‘10 spite the promise of adventure in- too loud or making out with any boys. line pumped; we were stoked. wreckage. Upended bags of groceries spired by the name, I found myself I was ready for anything. Sarah Charley’11 Off on the right hand shore, we lay strewn about, potatoes and rot- immersed in one of the harshest and But then something happened I saw another seemingly unnatural ting tomatoes basked in and amongst 38 39 Suicide Gorge

I had arrived in South Africa The cliff jumps looked sketchy, like if you rows pointing to various, barely rec- right), so we continued to make it a pool that, in some cases, you had to just a month before my friend met a ognizable paths. After hiking through through the next ten cliff jumps and land in just the right spot to ensure “guy” who offered to take her and her miscalculated the jump slightly you would gorgeous fields scattered with exotic pool swims. I don’t mean to depict safety. After 10 jumps we were not friends “kloofing.” We knew that the flowers, we arrived at the first pool, this experience as absolutely terrify- only physically exhausted, but also place was called “suicide gorge” and break yourself. where we were informed the first ac- ing. Each jump brought a new wave emotionally exhausted from denying that kloofing was Afrikaans for some- tivity was to climb up the side of the of endorphins and adrenalin. We everything our mind was telling us ( thing like cliff jumping (The ever re- gotten myself into. We arrived on a rounded by huge, rugged mountains gorge to where we could “bum slide” were on a continuous, glorious, natu- don’t jump!) over and over again. Af- liable wikipedia says that kloofing is bright March morning at a designated that I did not expect in South Africa. down a mossy water slide and drop ral high and surrounded by incredible ter 8 hours of descending the gorge actually “an adventure that typically parking lot at the University of Cape We finally arrived at some sort four meters into the first pool. Hesi- natural features. The gorge itself was I was beat, sun burnt, and sore from involves the descent of a deep ravine Town to meet the boys we would be of park where we signed our lives tating, I completed the first mission, beautiful. The water was that brown- landing a bit wrong on some of the or watercourse that may be dry or trusting the day to. Our only instruc- away...or at least, recorded our names and soon learned that I would have to ish ice-cold silty water that tends to higher jumps. But as we started the wet...” and that “All manner of walk- tions had been to wear sneakers we so someone could come looking for us put my full trust in these boys. The come out of the high mountains. The hike back to the car, I was exalted—I ing, scrambling, climbing, swim- could get wet and to wrap anything if we went missing. We commenced cliff jumps looked sketchy, like if day was perfect. But with each cliff had just done one the coolest thing I ming, plunging, jumping, bumslides we wanted to keep dry in lots of plas- what would turn out to be 17 kilo- you miscalculated the jump slightly we came to, a state of shear panic would do in South Africa and realized or abseiling rappelling could be in- tic bags. The group of boyfriends that meters of hiking to get into the river you would break yourself. But each would set in. There was no way to how fortunate we were to participate volved.”) My friend said I should greeted us that morning seemed nice gorge; a gorge that we would descend time they reassured us that we would go back up and no way to get down on such a glorious day. come, and despite the sketchy circum- and responsible; they had done the by ten cliff jumps. As we began hik- be okay (and of course, they were without jumping up to 18 meters into stances, I was too eager to get into the trip every year together. After some ing, it was immediately apparent that Carrie Piper ‘09 wilderness and out of the bustle of introductions we hopped into the cars what we had heard was correct: you Each jump brought a new wave of endorphins Cape Town and thus I agreed, and, after an hour and a half of driv- needed someone who knew the area, knowing that I had no idea what I had ing north of Cape Town, we were sur- as there were no trail signs; only ar- and adrenalin. 40 41 and we began to experience “the ing through car washes. We were trampled in our stampede. I didn’t curse of Keyenta.” On flat land we sweaty, smelled horrible, and we were actually realize I was crying until a The Time I Biked Across the Country struggled to stay at 10mph. I ran out black with dirt and bike grease, but man asked me where we came from of water before we reached Keyenta it was in this condition that I gained and I had to struggle before choking at 6pm. I drank ridiculous amounts twelve new friends. out Savannah, Georgia. of water, but the next morning, after As the end of the trip drew closer, In telling people about my plans 20 miles of feeling weak and nause- pure adrenaline propelled us forward. that summer, the most common re- ated, Keren suggested I hitchhike Climbing mountains was easier when sponse was to the effect of how it with Will to the hospital in Tuba City we knew that it would all be over in would be a life-changing experience. and get an IV. The group rode away a few days. We had already sent our I would return more disciplined, and Will and I unsuccessfully looked tents home at Taos, and most of us had more determined, ready to take on for rides at the gas station for an hour long ago limited ourselves to one shirt, any life challenge that lay before me, before testing our luck by hitchhik- 1 or 2 pairs of biking shorts, and 1 pair more in tune with nature, and more ing, thumbs out. We weren’t there for of socks. We had already crossed appreciative. I saw myself returning 5 minutes when two Navajo Indians through Georgia, Alabama, Missis- as a nature-obsessed hippie destined in a new white pickup truck pulled up sippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New to wear dirty clothes and hemp neck- and offered us a ride. We climbed in, Mexico, Arizona, and we were almost laces for the rest of my tree-hugging, and for the next 50 miles across the In- finished with California. rock-climbing life. I returned pleased to find out that I had not changed in the ways I feared but instead I had The routine of waking up every morning at gained insight, knowledge, and skills I would not have gained otherwise. I 5am, repacking our bikes, eating breakfast and learned about geography, how to fol- leaving again by 6 was hard to get used to low road signs, what a mountain pass It was a test of will and deter- the first time, I saw the prominence stocking supplies and making repairs looks like, what the grade of a hill re- mination. Into two bags totaling no of Southern hospitality and it’s exis- at bike shops, mailing things home, ally means, that food really is energy, more than 3,000 cubic inches, we tence proved to be an essential to our and getting everything ready for the dian Reservation, we learned firsthand Our travel size bottles of Pert Plus and bike seats are not comfortable. I were required to fit the clothing and success. next day. Due to these frustrations about Navajo culture. They were two were still decently full eight showers also learned about small town Ameri- supplies we needed for the next six It was our second day of biking and homesickness, Brad, Hilary, and medicine men (actually a man and a later between June 24 and August 3. ca, when to shift gears on the bicycle, weeks with the full realization that and the people of Cordele, Georgia I began our nightly tradition of mark- woman) who had lived on the reser- Most of our parents watched, filmed, how to change a flat tire, all of the we would carry every ounce of it up were having a hard time finding us a ing off the distance we had traveled vation their entire lives and witnessed or ran with us as we threw our bikes lyrics on the Footloose Soundtrack, every hill and mountain between Ty- place to stay. A cop pulled over and for that day on my map. It helped us drastic changes in their homeland. down, removed our front tires as fast and that there really can be miles and bee Island, Georgia and Santa Moni- told us to stay in a middle school gym take the trip day by day and provided They pointed out and told stories about as possible, and dashed into the cor- miles of nothing. It was a feeling of ca, California. With this in mind, I cut where we were treated with showers us with a sense of comfort in know- sacred rock formations, a mountain rosive waters of the Pacific Ocean accomplishment that I will always my toothbrush in half. and air-conditioning. He and his wife ing that we were making progress. that appeared to move up and down, tire and all. We hugged each other, remember and strive for with every Meeting for the first time at the later brought us cookies, ice, and We crossed through the long and sites where they had recently found di- hugged our parents, hugged other challenge I undertake. Savannah Airport, the fourteen of us drinks, and the following morning at monotonous state of Oklahoma and nosaur prints, the tension between the people’s parents, and talked with participating in Overland’s “Ameri- 6am, he gave us a bag of homemade as we got further west, the towns be- Navajo and Hopi Indians, and to our confused onlookers who had been Katelynn Bell ‘09 can Challenge” traveled for the last sausage biscuits. Throughout the trip came fewer and farther apart, and the left, they showed us a uranium plant time by car to the Atlantic Ocean at we would receive more hospitality, outside temperature increased along that’s testing procedures devastated Tybee Island. We had a miserable including one man buying us a bar- with the demand for water. Without the lives of thousands of Indians. They first night camping in a thunderstorm. becue dinner. The mayor of Myrtle- the proper balance of salt and water also suggested certain plant leaves The next morning we woke up at 5am wood, Alabama let us use a bridge intake, you would experience more that would eliminate and prevent any to get our last view of the Atlantic not yet open to the public, cutting 20 pain, and feel dizzy, weak, tired. In dehydration, and when we arrived Ocean and sprinkled a tiny bit of its miles off of our day. biker’s terms you would “bonk.” One in Tuba City ,and offered to show us corrosive salt water on our back tires The routine of waking up every particular incident of dehydration left their reservation if we returned. For before heading west. morning at 5am, repacking our bikes, me unable to bike for the day. the first time, I was able see that the Traveling throughout the south- eating breakfast and leaving again Riding from Shiprock to Keyen- importance of our trip had little to do eastern United States, we encoun- by 6 was hard to get used to, and ta, Arizona, we caught a tailwind that with the bicycle riding. tered logging trucks, humidity, thun- throughout the trip, we would receive sent us cruising effortlessly at around In our dirty spandex outfits, our derstorms, evangelical billboards, very little privacy and almost no time 25-35 mph for over 20 miles. group cleaned out Pizza Hut and Chi- hundreds of dead armadillos, one live to ourselves. Even our four days off Unfortunately, as Keyenta grew nese buffets, stretched in people’s armadillo, and rumble strips. For were filled with doing laundry, re- closer, our tailwind slowly reversed driveways, and cooled down by walk-

42 43 Club trip became nowhere near my last. Soon I was leading my own trips, calling those senior demigods Directions to Morse Mountain my friends, and even going to weekly From Lewiston, head towards sharply left to Popham Beach, How I Came to be a Part of the BOC: meetings with those Big-dogs. And Bath via U.S. Route 1. As you continue straight ahead on Route soon, the winter of my own junior approach Bath, exit Route 1 onto 216 for .4 of a mile. A Tale of Morse Mountain and Moonlight at Midnight year was upon me, and as the snow Route 209 South (High Street) Turn left on Morse Mountain fell one afternoon, I knew that it had towards Phippsburg/Small Point/ Road. Drive about 350 feet to become my turn to lead an adventure Sebasco/Popham Beach. the entrance of the parking lot on to Morse Mountain for a midnight, There is a ramp on the right, just the left. Vehicles may not park moonlit ski. after an Exxon station and before on Morse Mountain Road or on Unfortunately, I was not quite you get to the bridge or the Bath Route 216. the Big-dog, demigod that Drew had Iron Works crane. Turn right onto A two-mile hike leads through been, and the lords of luck worked High Street at the end of the ramp. woodlands, salt marshes, up 180- against me. Shortridge, I found out, Follow Route 209 South for 11.6 foot Morse Mountain to an over- had been closed because it wasn’t miles. Where Route 209 turns look, and on to Seawall Beach. up to fire code (even though it is by far the fanciest house Bates owns). We decided to plow ahead anyway, filled sky and the strange textures of graduated or not, I was going to take to prove how hardcore we were, and the frozen sand. Even sans skiing, I at least one more Morse Mountain just drive back to Bates that same had a blast, but part of me was still midnight ski in the moonlight! night after our adventure. Two vans nostalgic about the glory of that very And so we arrived, with a van- worth of happy skiers/snowshoers first trip. load of ten, and quite a few freshmen arrived at the Morse Mountain park- Last year I graduated from (or at least never-before-Shortridge/ ing lot to discover that, rather than Bates, but I have not yet left. I am Morse Mountain-goers) among us. Of snow, the past few weeks had deliv- working as an Americorps VISTA at course, I’m still no demigod, and the ered freezing rain to the coast, turn- Bates, and still denying my entrance lords of (bad) luck froze the pipes at ing it into more of a parking rink. into the post-college so-called “real Shortridge, burned some of the pop- Again, we plowed on and slip-slid world.” As the winter months arrived corn, and made me forget the pancake I was still in the “I-only-hang- At first glance, this adventure of the fancy, upscale facilities we refer our way to the beach and back, and this year, I heard some news which, mix so we all had to eat stale oatmeal out-with-the-people-who-live-in-my- seemed too good to pass up, but… to as the E-room and the BOC meeting the trip was still magnificent. Lin- once again, tugged at my (now deep- for breakfast, but I still felt that the dorm” stage of my freshmen year but… I didn’t know anyone who room at Bates, I expected no less of coln Benedict took amazing photo- ly rooted) adventurous side: “Shor- trip returned to its full glory. As we when, on a cold Thursday night in would be going on the trip! To make this Shortridge “house” in the woods, graphs of our antics on the beach, tridge is open once again for over- unloaded into the house and I saw the January, a certain e-mail changed the matters worse, the message had been and made sure to bring my warmest Jack Murphy decided to run around night stays!” With the lots of snow looks of bewilderment, as we skied whole course of my Bates College sent by Andrew Stowe, who was a sleeping bag, a sleeping pad, a poop naked, and the rest of us penguin in the forecast, I set about picking a through the dappled light of the moon career. Before you think about doubt- junior at the time, and every good, shovel, my tent and hard hat just in huddled and drank hot chocolate good ‘moon date,’ and decided that, and I heard whoops of joy, and as we ing the magnitude of this e-mail’s im- college-hierarchy-abiding freshman case. For those of you who have not from thermoses while enjoying star- scuttled around on the beach spinning pact, please consider (the rather em- knows that juniors are only one year been to Shortridge, I will not ruin the until we were dizzy and chasing each barrassing fact) that I have saved it away from being seniors (a.k.a. demi- delight of exploring its plush and cav- other in circles, some part (the corny for so long in my inbox. It contained gods)! And it was sent out through ernous depths, but let’s just say that I part) of me was hoping that someone the following information: the “BOC,” which was code for “Big- was very pleasantly surprised by a lot would feel the need to continue this dogs On Campus.” I was more than of things on this trip. The ski was spec- tradition… What: Night-time trek to Morse Mountain for a a little intimidated, and sure that the tacular, through lots of new powder, lit And maybe, just maybe, that for moonlit, midnight cross-country ski (all levels) other trip-goers would scoff at my only by the moon; Drew Stowe turned someone it was such a meaningful adventure up and down the trail to the beach. vain belief that I was good enough out to be way more into bird watching experience that they will save that for high and mighty Morse Mountain and eating Skippy peanut butter than silly e-mail announcing their Morse When: This Saturday, 1/29/05, leaving Bates “BOC” ski trips…But moonlit! At staring down or devouring freshmen; Mountain Midnight Moonlight after dinner (7:30 pm), coming back Sunday midnight!! To the beach!!! and the Big-dog On Campus members Cross-country Ski and Snowshoe to morning (spending the night in the Bates- Fortunately, my adventurous side I met seemed to have acquired their the Beach, even after they’ve gradu- owned Shortridge house on the coast, bring a triumphed, and dragged me out into powerful posts and followers through ated. sleeping bag, breakfast provided). the unknown worlds of the upperclass- herbal popcorn and silliness rather men, Shortridge, and the BOC. than intimidation tactics. Aubrey Nelson ‘09 Weather: It’s Maine, dress warm. Now, judging by my knowledge And thus, my very first Outing 44 45 on the phone, she and Carrie will make a successful bid at joining the AMC Board of Directors. The two The Class of 2009 in 20 Years will work their way up the ranks and eventually become co-presidents. Their first order of business will be By Doug Badrigian to close the auto road on Mt. Wash- ington to civilian use. They will then build their own high mountain hut called “Hut duce-duce seven.” They will summer there and invite all their friends to join them for BBQs and dance parties.

Lawrence Graham Jones

After being sequestered to coordinate AESOP 2009 (sorry Billy I thought was witty a month ago) Graham will move to the Sinai Peninsula where he will lead SCUBA diving trips and charm Arab women with his rugged him. After changing the carbon emis- good looks and Southern charisma. After a decade or so of this Graham When faced with the difficult task of recounting a story from my past expe- sions and pollutant laws all over the will wind up in graduate school and riences in the “wild,” I immediately quivered as telling stories is something continent, he will move to the states find himself going by the name Law- that I often find intimidating. I suppose I often struggle to articulate emo- and after getting significant amounts rence. He will continue to be the ob- Luke Hasselbeck Chris “Gnarlson” tionally/physically charged events and I usually end by saying something of environmental legislations passed ject of affection of more women then like, “well it was sweet but… I guess you had to be there.” Although I often he will become the general council to Carlson he will ever know but his true calling can entertain myself with a yarn or two, when retelling my tails I often the AMC and live happily ever after will be as a Religion professor in an suffer from desperate brevity, comical delusions of grandeur and or long in hut 227. I mean seriously did you After a summer of showing tourists Years of ski bumming, leading hiking open air classroom in India. He may and ominous pauses that have nothing to do with the moment of climax. expect something else in the end? a “good time” on his raft in Alaska trips, doing first assents on all sev- or may not have hair down to his Therefore instead of digging into my tired vault of sleeping bagless nights, Luke will become compelled to star en continents, and working on trail knees at this point. long fasts on river banks and remote beaches, and electrolyte depleted ski in his own real life ski movie, “Hot crews and in the huts will give Chris Dog: True Lyfe” After years of spin- a lifetime of stories, and experiences. adventures, I decided to go from zero to infinity and make some presump- Carrie Piper and Eliza tuous predictions pertaining to the phuture (that’s pomo for future) of the Ben Speyer ning flawless cork 7s, 9s, 15s and He will move in with Ben in Greene BOC’s class of 2009. Although not claiming to be divinely prophetic I hope sowing his extra wild oats all Whis- and write a best selling autobiography O’Neil tler, Park city, and Aspen he will re- titled “Chris Carlson: The Adventure y’all can find jejune humor, irony and truth in my attempts at foresight. After a few years of mastering every tire from the life of killing the kill kill of a Nutmegger.” His name will be- Carrie and Eliza together? Truth! For route at Rumney and living in “75” as and thrilling the thrill thrill and teach come synonymous with the likes of a few years, Carrie will find herself a “post grad” Ben will form a cloth- English in Rowley, coach skiing at Hillary, and Coombs. Furthermore teaching history at Holderness, leading optional commune in Greene or Cranmore, and during the summer he he might very well become the next Brodie back. After some years of ing back country skiing trips in the maybe South Paris. His organic baker Brodie “Broderick” will also coach sailing. When asked Sanford Freeman of Bates College. working in environmental firms and Chocs and Banff Alberta Canada, shop will rival Nezinscot’s and he will about why he turned down all those He will also receive a lot of fan mail. O’Brien even getting a Law degree Bhutan and hiking all over South Africa but always have a line of very satisfied big contracts from Line and Match will be Brodie’s port of call. Years of then she will realize how lonely life customers. Frequented by Ben Linder Stick, and GQ he will say simply “I Where in the world is Brodie O’Brien? service in Bhutan will result in Bro- is without her friends from Bates. and Chris, the three will form a blue never saw myself saying this but… Seattle? Ski Town, USA? D.C.? Bos- die becoming the environmental guru After grudgingly working in Boston grass band and entertain all the “hip- my heart is in Rowley, I just love ton? Vermont? No… Bhutan. Bwah? in Asia, his face may make it on a few in a lab right after college, Eliza will pies” in Northern New England with Massachusetts and I just can’t hide it Yes it is true, although he may not billboards, and he might have a town experience debilitating BOC with- goodies and tight jams, Greg will be any more.” know it now Bhutan is will beckon in India or Bangladesh named after drawal as well. After a long gurl talk there a lot too. From this success they might also buy the rights to PBR.

46 47 his mustache that he started back in else fails I am sure he will be able to too many years of liberal arts mental Lincoln “Linc” Benedict junior year. broker a 50:50 deal with the Goose to masturbation will prevent me from share profits from the sale of “scooter choosing a set career. I won’t know Linc, Linc, Linc. O where o where bombs” (the drink not the boats) after if using my sophomoric moniker in will the BOC and Bates’ favorite shut- Gretchen “Gretch” he perfects the recipe. No seriously my email address is cute or just plan ter bug be and what will he be doing Grebe Nando is a great guy and is going to juvenile, and I will take every job I over the next twenty years or so? I make some serious moves after grad- have too seriously. But when I least bet he will spend some time to him- Gretch will follow Chris Sharma uation (next winter), and most likely expect it God or hopefully the woman self in Alta photographing skiers and around from comp to comp for a year we will be reading about his self titled of my dreams will walk into my life bringing a new meaning to the phrase or two. After “dinoing” into his arms aquatic adventures in some outdoor and slap some sense into me. From “you got the shot.” Lincoln will also during a climb the two will marry magazines, or at the very least “The there I will start an NGO dedicated become a champion half marathoner and have several children who are Legend.” to rebuilding social capital in Amer- and develop his own courses that will climbing 515s by v12s by their 13th ica and hopefully at the end of this become instant classics. Ultimately birthday. Sorry Jake I met you a few Douglas “Dougie Boi” twenty years we will all be holding he will work as a free lance photogra- weeks ago and you seem cool but this hands around the camp fire. Along pher for the NY Times, his ghost pho- is written. Badrigian with this I plan to ski and play ulti- tographer name will be Humphrey. mate…a lot…Jean’s new knee chip He will also claim 6 Pulitzers by his After years of masquerading around will make this possible (you can see 40th birthday. If all else fails I read an Greg “Geg” O’Donnell Arabia as an English teacher/dip- I have conveniently invented things article in the Economist that claims to predict even though I’ve known ogy; her dissertation will break down lomat, flirting with a conversion to to help myself as well). Working as porn is recession proof (I’m not per- him since the first days of Freshmen the knee stabilization technology she Upon graduating Greg will catch the Islam, and a few near brushes with the ambassador to Oman would be a verted and I don’t usually read capi- year. The wearer of many hats, I mean pioneered that has ridded the world first bus out of Dodge (or Simsbury, death I will find myself back in New- pretty nice gig too. talist publications but this is no joke). I could even see this guy being a male of knee injuries. After years of star- Connecticut) and arrive in Bozeman, ton, MA. Cognitive dissonance and Any way I’m sure they will be look- fashion mogul in 20 years (check out ing in ski films and working with Montana. After years of turning the ing for photographers with some field the pics from Gala sophomore year). the US Ski team as a medical advi- domes of many West coasters with experience for their jungle scenes. I suppose this spontaneity is a strong sor she will suddenly quit, leaving a his East coast flair and absurd skills Our current “lookout” on the trail of life is providing us with a pretty good quality of his, but if I had to bet the bakers dozen of puzzled co-workers in a mogul field Greg will return to view, some might even say this is the best vista we will ever have. But col- farm I would say that he would be doin her wake as she follows her heart Mad River Glenn and become lege is one of life’s many false summits. Our perspective on life is certainly Leah Dembinski ing something related to white water back east. She will accept a profes- chairman of the MRG Co-op. When delightful; we don’t have to deal with the thunder heads of lay offs, trying to paddling, or at the very least some- sorship at MIT and periodically tele- asked about why he returned from the make ends meet, or struggling to really find meaning in life beyond how we mighty mountains of the West to the Leah will find herself coming back thing in the “film industry.” Maybe he communicate with BOC and serve as can puddle jump through the challenging yet seductively simplistic grind of mole hills of the East he will say, “I from her Fulbright fellowship in Peru will develop his own line of razors. I their guest secretary. During the sum- Academia Batesian. Our rain clouds are bad exams, not being able attract just got bored skiing at Bridger and craving frisbee and skiing. She will can’t wait to see if any of these come mer time she will live with Carrie and that special some one, or trying to figure out if what you did last night was Big Sky, and Mad River will never immediately move to Colorado and to fruition. Eliza and work on her small business regrettable or fun, or regrettable and fun. I hope and I think life after Bates bore me…ever, the trees are just that become the President of the Ultimate developing a line of ski shots. will force us to mine for the zest of life in a much more diligent and at times good.” Players Association, and from there JeanMarie “Jeanie” desperate way, but this will hopefully make the rewards things to savor and she will find a job teaching skiing to cherish more then an ‘A’ on a Psych exam, a fun night of house hopping Spanish speaking children. After a Gossard Ben “Ben Linder” Alex “Nando” on Frye Street, or even feeling like you have things “figured out” (as if you few years of this she will start a farm should or do when you are 22 or even 42). So like all false summits we still with Aubrey and continue to snow- Where do we start here? How ‘bout Linder Hernandez have some work to do before reaching life’s pinnacle, the conditions may board, alpine and tele-ski and kick graduation some 16 months from be harsh, we might have to wait for the wind to die down, and we will all people’s asses in foosball. now. Yes it is true Jeanie will not be Ben will coach the woodsman club After successfully developing his certainly be going at our own pace. In this hiking trip speed is really not a joining the class of 2009 in May as at Bates and turn them into a log cut- own line of canoes called “Scooter virtue, we should all take time to relish each step of the journey, find a nice we make our teary eyed walk down ting and climbing juggernaut. He will Bombs” and pioneering a canoe trail flower (wink), fix the cuts and blisters the path will give us, look back down Alexander William the aisle, but nevertheless she is so do this while simultaneously earning from the Chesapeake to the Puget and appreciate where we came from, and look forward to when we will all Scott dear to us that her story must be told. his PhD in European history from Sound called “Nando’s Great Adven- meet again at the summit. I feel like I was at base camp four years ago. I After graduation with the class of Harvard. After a stint of living with ture,” Alex will return to Bates and love you all and may all your dreams come true. Chris and Ben Speyer, Ben Linder be a permanent fixture in The Nan- You know Daniel ‘D-Day’ Simpson ’10 Jean will continue to be a mover will come back to Bates and chair the cies. He will also continue to moni- BOC 2009 Comin’ In Hot To The “Real World!” from “Animal House?” What about and shaker just as she has been for History department after defeating tor the carbon foot print of Maine’s Animal from “The Muppet Movie?” the past five years. After saving most Mike Jones in fencing dule. Later he second district, and be an on and off Ma Salama~Peace Be With You, Now you see what I’m saying? Alex of the strife stricken world with her will become the faculty advisor to the again member of the Batesie blue is the only person I can’t really seem smile and laugh Jean will get her PhD in science and medical technol- BOC, and still will not have shaved grass band formed by the Ben. If all Dougie Boi, ‘09 48 49 stove so as to push the thermometer recipes is clam chowder made from of ingredients listing the calories of into the Bake zone (but not past it) An Introduction to a base of instant mashed potatoes, many food products. Overall, this is and keep it there for as long as the Freezer Bag Cook- dried milk and a 3 oz pouch of clams. a very practical, applicable guide. Outdoor Cooking packaging claims the item should To this Sarbar suggests " tsp dill, " While Sarah Svien’s book may have be baked for. The heat-trapping ing-Trail Food tsp black pepper, " tsp thyme, " tsp more inspired and tasty menus, the hood and heat shield are unique to granulated garlic and " tsp salt. The this oven and allow for consistent In 2005, I set out to improve my chowder is finished off with 2 packets baking temperatures throughout the trail menus. I started by looking into of Parmesan cheese. “Not all ‘food’ is food” oven. The baked good produced by the freeze-dried food found in hiking “Travel Light-Eat Heavy” by this stove are far superior to those shops. I was instantly put off by both Bill McCartney is also about FBC. #Ray Jardine, Beyond produced using a traditional top-fired the label information and the cost. I am sorry to say this book recently Backpacking pan. No mushy uncooked centers, After evaluating what was out there, I went out of print but the author, no burnt crust, and certainly no ash began to think there had to be another Bill McCartney, assured me that the from a fire. There is really no end way to have good tasting nutritious second printing would come out in menus McCartney presents work of possibilities as to what you might meals on the trail. The tin can alcohol late spring of 2009. Watch for it on well enough for most hikers’ needs. bake in this oven, and once you start stove has come to largely dominate Amazon.com or your local hiking Both books are helpful and users baking in the wilderness, you will the approach of heating meals on the shop. would likely benefit by reading Mc- not want to stop! There are many trail. What has been missing, until There is a lot of emphasis on nu- Cartney’s book first due to the more creative and delicious things to bake: recently, was an equally sensible and trition in this book, but not to fear— detailed instructions on technique Focaccia, cinnamon rolls, double- low cost trail menu alternative. The McCartney boldly finds a place on and the nutrition discussion. layer chocolate ganache cake, upside- simple concept is called “Freezer the menu for Snickers Bars, Little Nutritious Freezer Bag Cooking down pineapple cake, and bagels are Bag Cooking” or “FBC,” for short. I Debbie Brownies, Pop Tarts, Fig provides the perfect compromise just a few of the more exotic recipes. first learned about FBC from a post Newtons and other guilty pleasures. between travelling light and eating If you consider yourself a by Sarah Svien who goes by the nom Most ingredients on the various right with the good information backpacker, you may think that an de route “Sarbar.” Sarbar is truly the menus are practical and available available from both Bill McCartney Outback Oven is an unnecessary grand Poobah of trail cooking. She at reasonable sized grocery stores. and Sarah Svien. extra weight. While the oven may has published a book called “Freezer At the end of the book, there is a be unnecessary, Backpacker’s Bag Cooking-Trail Food Made Sim- helpful table of equivalents and table Douglas G. Smith ‘63 Pantry also produces an ‘ultralight’ ple. It is available for $12.95 at www. 8” diameter oven that weighs a freezerbagcooking.com. slight 9.5oz. When one takes into Sarbar’s book, “Freezer Bag account the usefulness of the oven Cooking-Trail Food Made Simple” The Outback Oven lect batter for baking into the oven. A as a frying pan as well, though, is 89 pages and crammed full of 160 wide range of delicious baked goods the weight disadvantage virtually interesting, practical and flavorful can be produced, and they all tend to The Outback Oven, made by disappears. Those too hardcore to recipes. Major chapters center on turn out the same as your mother’s Backpacker’s Pantry, is a lightweight ignore the space or calories needed breakfast, drinks, soups, salads & recipe, though temperature control camping oven useful for all sorts of to transport this extra gear will still vegetables, lunch, dinner and desserts. can be a little iffy at times. Without baking, steaming, and frying. About find wilderness baking a luxury, and There is also a good introduction that a high-end, heavier camp stove like 10” in diameter and weighing maybe because this is the case with many discusses the “how to” of freezer bag the MSR Dragonfly, the burn amount one pound, this oven consists of a longer backpacking expeditions, cooking. Sarbar apparently hikes on the stove is difficult to adjust. The nonstick frying pan, aluminum lid, I must insist that such individuals with children in tow, so readers will thermometer on the oven does not thermometer, heat shield (similar to go canoeing more often and allow find she has some authority on what read out actual temperatures; it is in- those used with MSR camp stoves), themselves the liberty of lugging appeals to youngsters. stead divided into three sections that flame deflector, and fire-resistant heat- along whatever gear they please – Probably the most valuable insight approximate important temperatures trapping hood. The Outback Oven is perhaps Backpacker’s Pantry could to be gained from Sarbar’s book is in baking. The sections are labeled designed for use with all ranges of contrive an Outback Wafflemaker? the degree to which simple spices, so as not to confuse outdoorsy types: camp stoves, provided the gas canister dried vegetable powders and dried Warm Up, Bake, and Burn. supplying the stove is not attached Outback Ovens are available at most mushrooms can enhance the meal In order to bake perfect gingerbread, directly below the stove’s burner local gear stores for around $40. experience. Sarah convincingly leads brownies, cakes, or any other (sorry, Primus just will not cut it). the user to prepare both nutritious deliciousness in the Outback Oven, Assembling the oven is as simple Carter Kindley ‘11 and good tasting meals that make the the goal is to read the packaging and as screwing the thermometer into end of day meal something beyond essentially twiddle with the camp the top of the lid and inserting a se- mere sustenance. One of my favorite 50 51 For sports photography a dSLR is confusing, it will help a lot!). of very similar things. A good exer- really is the best choice, especially Remember that you can attain cise is to see if you can limit an album with a 55-200 lens- though for a little some really cool angles as well, think to a roll of film (i.e. 36 pictures) and extra money one can buy a fixed 200 about holding the camera above your most people will be a lot more in- Shoot and Capture f 2.8 for not much more (f 2.8 = more head or really down low to show clined to look and keep coming back. light, a blurrier, prettier background). something different. Also remember It’s also good to shoot with this in Once you have a zoom the best thing you aren’t wasting film if you take a mind. While you may shoot hundreds The Art of Outdoor Photography to do is make sure you take advantage bunch of photos from different angles of images, see how few you can edit of your camera’s “servo focus” mode, and sides. Just make sure you edit down to tell the complete story. allowing it to track the subject. This them when you get back! So get out there and take some Soooo… you just got that fancy is often activated in the “sports” set- I can’t stress editing enough. I photos! Photography is one of those dSLR (you know, one of the digital ting that most cameras have but you know you want to show people your things where practice makes you bet- cameras that has interchangeable can also activate it yourself (in most pictures (picassa and flikir are great ter no matter where you start, so start lenses and looks like a film camera) cases) with an aperture priority mode for that) but make sure you have good shooting! you’ve been pining after for so long and run your camera on the largest photos, not just a huge quantity. No and you want to go out and photo- aperture (wikipedia “aperture” if this one wants to sit through 300 pictures Lincoln Benedict ‘09 graph. First word of advice, actually get out there! Many people are worried about bringing their camera on a hiking trip or to some exotic destination because it might get damaged. Well, yes it might, but on the other hand it will never get used. A camera is not meant to be looked at; it’s meant to look out on the world and capture it. This is not to say that sometimes it’s better to consider taking a smaller (and less expensive) camera but remember you didn’t buy it to sit behind glass, you bought it to record your awesome adventures that you want to remember. So, you finally decided to go somewhere cool and bring your spankin’ new dSLR along. But before you go, make sure you know how to use it. For me, this is accomplished by using it as much as possible before hand. The better you know your camera, the easier it will be adapt to the different shooting positions that pop up. Most cameras these days, even point and shoots, have various man- ual settings, which can really make or break a photo. If you stick to auto all of the time you might get caught out when you least expect (or want) it. be afraid to get grainy as flash usually ing and gives your subject a nice soft One of the major features that helps makes pictures absolutely horrific. look instead of the unflattering deer hugely is the ISO setting- it’s like film If you do have to use your flash and the headlights look. Don’t have a speeds in the old days. The higher the though try as hard as possible to separate flash unit? Consider getting a number, the more sensitive the sensor “bounce” it when you’re indoors. Lightscoop (just google it). It’s cheap, is to light, but also the grainier image. This means that you aim the flash simple, and makes photos look much Use this to your advantage and don’t up in the air so it reflects off the ceil- better. 52 53 He is campaigning for an internation- Surrounded by 12,000 determined cember is crucial to combat climate al global day of action for 350ppm students who decided to put their change before it is too late and US

CO2 on October 24. (visit 350.org for lives on hold for a weekend, I have involvement will determine its suc- more information). Adam Gardner of never before felt so moved. In 2007, cess. Think about where the environ- musical act Guster also spoke about when the first Powershift Conference ment will be in 2050, when some of founding the non-profit environmen- came to DC, everyone was excited us might have grandchildren. tal organization Reverb. There were that 5,000 students came together, let Starting now, we need to hold our almost 200 panels and workshops alone the more than doubled figure leaders responsible and get involved. to choose from, such as “The Future for this year. Jessy Tolkan, the Exec- As Majora Carter states, “A crisis is a of International Climate Change,” utive Director of the Energy Action terrible thing to waste.” Involvement “Taking on Big Oil from Tar Sands Coalition (the coalition that planned can be as simple as signing letters to to Refineries,” “Gardening for Cli- Powershift) told us, “it is going to your Congressmen and women or mate Justice,” “Environmental Rac- take a lot more than the impressive coming to the Environmental Com- ism,” “Greening your School,” and 12,000 students who came to Pow- munity Dinners at 6:00 on Sundays “The Dual Fight for Health Care and ershift to bring change.” She asked at Fry Street Union. We welcome Climate Change.” With great perfor- each of the 12,000 students to find everyone, and those of you who en- Bates and the Environment mances by the Roots and Santigold, 10 more to become involved, and joy spending time outdoors will take as well as documentaries about coal those 10 people each need to find 10 this opportunity to protect and defend in America, insulation in homes, and more if we want to change the cli- what you love. the effects of offshore oil production, mate legislation in the US. The cli- the chance to step up to the incredible also our responsibility to assist devel- it was overall an incredible weekend. mate treaty in Copenhagen next De- Erin Bourgault ‘11 Powershift ‘09 challenge of climate change. oping countries lower their emissions Congresswomen Donna Edwards and thus mitigate their impact on cli- On Election Day this fall, a great envisioned March 2nd, Lobby Day, mate change. change was brought to the White as a day to go down in history as the We spent our incredibly busy House as more young people voted time that “Powershift was in the halls weekend listening to inspiring key- in this election than ever before. of Congress and Powershift made a note addresses from incredible activ- Although this was a great victory, difference.” As the primary contribu- ists such as Bill Mckibben (speaker at change has not happened immediate- tor of green house gas emissions that Bates on March 12), who told us that ly within President Obama’s adminis- induce climate change, the US needs the Copenhagen Treaty will be the tration, and therefore we need to keep to cut carbon emissions dramatically last good chance for us to decrease fighting for the changes we want. and immediately, we need to relieve carbon dioxide emissions to below During the first one hundred days of the economy by creating green jobs 350 parts per million in the atmo- Obama’s presidency, 12,000 students and investing in clean, renewable sphere. According to the most recent from around the country came to- energy, and we must lead the world scientific reports, if we don’t lower gether to rally on Capitol Hill and to towards a strong global climate treaty levels to 350, “we will cause huge lobby their Congressmen and women in Copenhagen December 2009. It is and irreversible damage to the earth.” for more progressive policies on climate change during the biggest Lobby Day in US history. With the help of the BOC, the Bates students who went Bates College is consistently ranked as one of the greenest schools in to DC stepped outside of the “Bates the country, and “greenness” is encouraged in nearly every department. Bubble” and realized that we have the Conservation minded clubs and those who promote environmental power to make a differencee—to make stewardship such as the Environmental Coalition and BEAM (the Bates the power shift. Keynote speaker Conn- Energy Action Movement) are seeing a rise in membership and environ- gressman Ed Markey told us that the mental studies is one of the most popular majors. In Commons, unused green generation needs to rise up and food scraps are fed to pigs instead of being thrown out, and napkins and demand an end to CO emissions in 2 other food service items are recycled. In many departments, classes are the same way that young people de- appearing discussing climate change, human ecology, and environmental manded an end to the Vietnam war, protection and stewardship. The school has realized the student body’s fought for suffrage for women and involvement in the natural world and has used this interest in its mission minorities, struggled to end the South to be at the forefront of environmental liberal arts education. African Apartheid, and knocked down the Berlin Wall. This is the time and 54 55 Secretary

Boi! I have loved my life as BOC secretary. To me being secretary takes only the desire to be creative, a little funny, and some decent listening skills. An understanding and appreciation of the “campiness” (no pun intended) of outdoor lingo, coupled with pop cultural references has been something I have enjoyed to imbue the minutes with as well. I have also enjoyed the feed back many of you have given me, so thanks for reading, I truly appreciate the laughs. I hope I have been able to elucidate the true events of each meeting for those who have not been present, and that my personal spin has also led to some laughs that have allowed you to get through long mid week nights of work in Ladd Library, or P-Gill. I think anyone that likes to play around with words, literary devices, and or youtube would Water Sports O!cer Reports love this officer position. I don’t mean to insinuate that my job is frivolous through this description, but I do believe that it is a fun and very personalized position. There are no Coming to Bates as a freshmen, I was really excited to rules (just no four letter words), but you need your poetic become an officer in the Outing Club. When I heard that license and a desire to churn something out every week and the whitewater kayaking program was lacking interest and try to educate and entertain your audience. Jester, or Puck equipment, Alex Hernandez and I decided to fix that. The A Word From the President Vice President like character? No! I like to see the secretary as the BOC’s winter started with an inventory of equipment and a list of soothsayer, although not totally prophetic. You can’t func- what the club needed. With the new the gear, the first ever roll clinic at Bates College has been schedule for March Sure, headlines are bleak and the economy has taken Aside from filling the role of Batman’s Robin, the tion without me but I need your stories, announcements, 15, 2009. The interest is huge and so more will hopeful- a dive steeper than Sunday River’s White Heat. Cheer up! shorter, pre-pubescent and slightly more awkward side- input, and shenanigans to be relevant. I hope the next sec- ly follow. This spring Alex and I are looking forward to The Bates Outing Club is having one of its most exciting kick to the President, the Vice President’s official respon- retary sees and enjoys themselves as such. whitewater kayaking and canoeing, a swift water certifica- years yet. Less than twelve months short of the Club’s 90th sibilities include the organization of two clambakes and tion course thanks to Alex Scott, cliff jumping everyday, anniversary, the country’s oldest co-educational outing club the Winter Carnival. This year’s fall semester VP, William Dougie Boi Badrigian ‘09 and more and more interest in our new whitewater kayak- continues to provide the Bates community with exposure to “Dots” Loopesko put on an exceptional clambake whose ing program. The water sports program is changing for the new places, unparalleled experiences and bonds that last a lack of sea, sand and sun didn’t seem to dampen the spirits better at Bates College, and the Outing Club is the reason lifetime. of anyone besides the lobsters. Chase Hall proved to be a Hikes and Trips why. The thriving BOC has done much more than lead trips more than adequate venue with the clambake serving as the all over the East Coast. Armed with talented and enthusi- first student event to christen its floors with buttery drool. This year we’ve maintained some strong Hikes and Colin Barry ‘12 astic members, we have taken the steps to create a Club We owe the success of Winter Carnival 2009 to this Trips traditions. Katahdin Summit Assault was a fantastic endowment fund. We’ve created more trip opportunities year’s snow gods and Rusty Milholland ‘10’s sacrificial of- way to kick off the fall, with a gung-ho group of kids and with the lease of our own full time BOC van, and we have fering of his virginity to their cause. The gods’ response bluebird skies all the way. A smaller, more boast-worthy established a BOC Historian position. Through momentum was a snow dump that allowed for the architectural struc- group decided to start early and attack the Knife Edge, Publicity and dynamic participation, we will accomplish great things turing of two ski jumps, one sled jump, and a three-foot while the rest of us took our time on the summit. Also this in the coming year. layer of ice blanketing the Lake Andrews Puddle. fall, Bates sent another thru-hiking team to the Presidential As readers of The Legend and members of the BOC With a spring clambake at Popham beach, a BOC Range Relay Race and discovered that Tufts is slow, chili As publicity director I am responsible for getting the family, I invite each of you to become a part of the Club’s spring talent show, a snowy-shoed walk to the lean-to, and tastes better post-peak-bagging, and Bates kids are capable word out around Bates about what’s going on with the out- future. Our 100th anniversary is not far away; join our dia- a Winter Olympics competition against Colby and Bow- of having way more fun than all the other teams combined. ing club. Our best show recently was the BOC Winter Car- logue about the Outing Club’s future. What do you envi- doin still around the corner, there is much to look forward Since AESOP and a sprinkling of fall hiking trips, the BOC nival poster, utilizing a photo of myself jumping three cars sion for the Club in an ideal world? What was great and to in the coming months. is still working on nailing down all the 4,000 footers in in a row on a narrow New Hampshire road. This will be what can be better? New England, a feat that we anticipate being accomplished appearing on the back of the spring issue of the Bates Mag- Anything is possible. Email us your ideas or stop by a JeanMarie Gossard ‘09 come the end of Short Term. This winter, kids have been azine. The Web man, otherwise known as Rob Friedman, meeting; they’re still 6:30 Wednesdays in the basement of skiing and snowshoeing all over the place, but we’re itch- has been working on a new web site which will definitely Alumni Gym, all are welcome. ing for that first spring trip up Tumbledown. improve our very old and outdated one. Hopefully this will What do you envision for the club in an ideal world? help us spread the gospel to even more! Brodie O’Brien ‘09 Eliza O’Neil and Chris Carlson ‘09 Humphrey L. Benedict ‘09

56 57 E-Room Hickories

After thousands of years of residence beneath the floors Like the past two winters I’ve spent in Maine, this one of Hathorn, the Outing Club Equipment room remains an was full of snow and cold temperatures. Though the most integral part of the Bates community. The year has been substantial amount snow came somewhat later than most extremely busy as staff and students flock to the E-Room to shredding Batesies might have liked, the slew of almost get fitted for various types of gear, ranging from climbing weekly storms in January and February put us back on harnesses to mono-skis. This year’s staff includes Robert track. As always, students have showed no lack in creativ- Friedman as senior E-Room czar, as well as Priscilla Mot- ity or energy for finding ways to enjoy the winter wonder- ley 3.0, Alex “Huck Finn” Barton, Michael “Goldie Locks” land in which we live. The Winter Carnival, Bates’ annual Dorfman, Erik “Sloppy Joe“ Barth, and Deb “Chronically celebration of cold fun, was a great way to kick off the Absent” Altman. winter semester. The Outing Club organized a phenomenal During short term we plan on giving the E-Room a puddle jump and constructed a mega booter on Mt. David, much-needed facelift, which will include brand new bench- off of which daring skiers and riders could strut their stuff es and shelves to help us keep our gear organized and in tip during the big air challenge. The PVC rail has also seen Alumni Notes top shape. its fair share of use. All assortments of the Bates freestyle scene can try their luck at sliding down our very own rail How to Check out Gear: Swing by the E-room between 4 at breakneck speeds. Finally, vans have been going out to and 5pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and come ski areas on a nearly bi weekly basis, assuring that every- see what we have to offer. A $5 deposit is needed to check one gets plenty of riding time in. As I’m writing this it’s Engaged in Nepal Toenails on Katahdin out gear and is returned if gear is brought back by its due currently snowing, but the warm weather reminds us that date. The E-room is open to all students, staff, and faculty. spring is approaching. We now get to look forward to big I was in Nepal this past summer for dissertation re- When I was a student at Bates in the late 70’s, I took April blizzards, bottomless corn, pond skims, Tuckerman’s, search, and my boyfriend met me there to go trekking in a Geology course that entailed a field trip to climb Mt. Robert Friedman ‘11 and working on the goggle tan. You can be sure that here at the Annapurna range in the Himalayas. One morning in the Katahdin. I enjoyed the climb and the view, and I don’t the Outing Club, snow is always on our minds, and we will middle of the trek we woke up at 3:45am to hike up a hill remember any discomfort getting up or down. But what do our best to get you out on the slopes on straight, skinny, and watch the sunrise. On the way up I was pretty grumpy, I will never forget is how, after the trip, my big toenails Cabins and Trails neon skis and boots that don’t fit. Just hop in a white van but it was worth it not only for the spectacular views of the turned black and blue and then came off! New ones grew and join us. sun hitting the Himalayas but also because he proposed! So back, but it sure was weird. I figure my footwear wasn’t This fall was a good one for the Cabins and Trails divi- as to not travel in Nepal with a real diamond, he proposed adequate for the downhill trek. Luke Hasselbeck ‘09 and “Dots” Loopesko ‘10 sion of the BOC. On a beautiful October day, we made with a large plastic light-up ring. We had no phone or inter- our annual trek out to the lean-to perched on the side of net, so for two more days afterwards the only person who Jane Thickstun ‘79 Bemis Mt. that marks the end of our club’s jurisdiction on knew we were engaged was our Sherpa. the Appalachian Trail. As the head of Cabins and Trails, our responsibilities are to maintain our section of the AT, Cynthia Macht ‘00 educate members of the BOC in trail maintenance, and to People of the BOC generally have fun with the more dangerous items in the club’s equipment room; our job requires the use of chain- With the fantastic winter snow of the past two years, saws, axes, Pulaskis, and all manner of other risky appara- Dave and the Long Trail I have tried to ski as much as possible. I mostly go back- tus. As the founder and president of the Bates Woodsmen country skiing. In early January of 2009, I went out for a team, I have no objection to wielding these tools for trail I finished hiking the Long Trail for the second time this long ski with Noah and Emily (both ’03) and my fiancé, work or in competition. This fall, we also sent a delegation summer. The Long Trail predates the AT and was the in- Jenny. We skied the upper Nanamocomuck ski trail with a up to a section of the AT near Moscow, ME to help the spiration for the creation of the AT way back when. It runs side trip into Sawyer Pond which is North of the Kancama- University of Maine-Orono’s outing club do some trail re- the length of the state of Vermont and is 275 miles. I also gus Highway in New Hampshire. We ended up skiing for habilitation, including the construction of a retaining wall, personally adopted a shelter on the AT to maintain. It is 11 hours, half of that with headlamps on. Many ingested rerouting drainage, and placement of several rock bridges. Goddard Shelter on Glastonbury Mountain, near the town calories and the excellent camaraderie in our group was This spring, we plan to send an expedition to the mysteri- of Bennington, Vermont. I do three trips up per year to what kept us going, and we were all glad that each other ous BOC cabin on Mt. Abraham, and we hope to rebuild clean the place up, do routine maintenance, etc. It is one was on the trip. All the wonderful people that I met and or repair that cabin. As the snow melts, we are itching to of the highest and most remote shelters in Vermont and I’d continue to meet through the Bates Outing Club – that is get out the axes and chainsaws for another season of dirty, love some Bates support if anyone is ever interested. what I am most thankful for. rewarding work on the trails of Maine. Dave ‘99 Scott Betournay ‘01 Ben Linder ‘09 and Lauren Levanovich ‘11 58 59 The Why the BOC Loves Maine

TuT mbleddown Fastest Katahdh inn Bike Ride SuS ndday Riiver andn Suggara loafaf of My Life While in Hawaii in November of which is why you really have to pay met and a canary yellow rubber suit. ’05, I signed up for the “Maui Down- attention to the leader. Overlooks Being neither the shortest nor the tall- hill Bicycling Adventure,” a rapid provide panoramic vistas with varied est, I was happy to be in the middle ThThe LaLakek s descent down the world’s largest vol- landscapes and colors passing under of the pack. Once we were all in line, cano. The trip down the side of the billows of clouds. At the Kalahaku Billy was on a roll, and so were we. Haleakala Volcano, 10,000 feet high Overlook we could see the valley Whoopee! crowned with a crater 9 miles across, with its reddish cinder cones, black As we descended down the side is billed as the “downhill bicycle lava, and unique silversword plants of the volcano, we went through 4 cruise of your life”. First we went with silvery dagger-shaped leaves, different ecosystems. After the alpine across Maui to the Haleakala Nation- particular to this region. section with lava boulders in the fog, al Park. I was the oldest of about a It was getting noticeably cooler. we went through subalpine shrub dozen of us in the van with the bikes The summit is usually about thirty land, dry forest, pasture land, and in a trailer behind us. degrees cooler than the coastal towns. finally enter rainforest as we neared Bill, our guide, handed us a form The summit was very foggy with poor the bottom. The spectacular scenery (an “Aloha sheet”) to sign, and add- visibility, so we had to come down a kept changing, especially with all the ed: “May our lawyers never meet.” bit before starting our bike trip. We switchbacks. What was once way off Then he made at four points: 1. You decided to extend the finish line to in the distance kept getting closer. ShShaggg CrCragag don’t have to ride a bike; you can make up for lost distance. Long stretchs of gardens with ThT e Islands stay in the van! 2. Please pay atten- It was now time for us to read nothing but birds of paradise and for- tion. If you stare at the view too long, a laminated list of do’s and don’ts. ests of eucalyptus trees on both sides Higgins Beach you may become part of it! 3. Follow One was: “Slow down before hair- of the road provided beautiful scen- the leader. You don’t want part of the pin turns; then, let up on the brakes. ery and rich fragrances. This bike trip road named after you! 4. If you want Don’t brake on the sharp turn or was fantastic! In my life I have cycled to go faster, rent a Harley Davidson! you could flip over.” After we read over 25,000 miles, but this bike ride After entering the National Park, we the whole list, Billy said, “If you’re down the side of the Haleakala Vol- started climbing up Maui’s steep “road nervous, that’s good; and if you’re cano—25 miles in about an hour—is to heaven” covered in misty clouds. scared, stay in the van.” I didn’t tell without comparison. It is said to be the world’s most rap- him that I felt halfway between ner- idly ascending road. It has over thirty vous and scared. Dwight S. Haynes ’59 switchbacks with exquisite scenery, We each put on a bright red hel- Map courtesy of the University of Texas 60 61 62