What to do when you can’t canoe... but want to
If you've always
wanted to go canoe
ing, but can't tell the
difference between
an oar and a lacrosse
stick.. .take heart,
you’ve got a friend
that you maynot have
known anything about.
Tucked in a hard-to-find corner of the
Erb Memorial Union, the University Out
door Program coordinated 17,000 user
days worth of outdoor fun last year.
“A lot of people are afraid they have
to be skilled to go on our trips,”
chuckles Bruce Mason, Outdoor Pro
gram director. ‘ But that’s not always
true. We try to make it as easy as possi
ble by gearing the trips toward people
who haven’t done anything like this
before."
Mason, director for the last four
years, is quick to point out that the Out
door Program is mainly designed to be a
resource center for University students
and faculty.
“We are here to provide the resources
to assist community members in any
project related to the outdoors," Mason
says, adding that the program isn’t
limited to only University faculty and
students.
"The majority of people who use our
resources want to to on their own trip,"
Mason says. “We're here to give them
enough skills to go on that outdoor
trip."
The program is set up on a co
operative basis, which means there are
no membership fees or officers, and
anyone can participate to any degree
they want.
The idea behind the Outdoor Program
is for a group of community members to
come up with a destination point and
funding, says Mason, and for the pro
gram staff to provide any resources the
group needs — such as maps, lists of
camping sites, or food-planning guides.
Or, if just one or two people have a
trip in mind, they can fill out a trip sheet
and post it in the Outdoor Program of
fice along with other upcoming excur
sions that are planned. Hopefully,
enough people will sign-up for the trip
for it to become a reality.
Participants generally have to help
pay for gas (if they don’t have a car) and
any equipment they will need to rent,
but those are the only prerequisites,
says Mason.
“If it’s non-competitive, self-propelled
and outdoors-oriented, we will help,"
Mason says, pointing out that the pro
gram helped out on skiing, hiking, clim
bing, canoeing, rafting, and bicycling
trips last year.
Staff members often initiate trips, but
there are no "official” Outdoor Program
trips, says Mason.
Outdoor trips aren’t the only thing the
Outdoor Program lends a hand to, ac
cording to Mason. The program also
sponsors more than 100 free on-campus
events each year, ranging from
slideshows to equipment presentations,
and offers a wealth of resource informa
tion covering outdoor-related activities.
There are equipment catalogs,
topographic sheets covering Oregon
and parts of the rest of the world, menu
planning and food-shopping guides, a
used-equipment board, and areas where
you can find out the latest on
Whitewater canoeing, cycling or en
vironmental projects.
The Center, located at the southeast
corner of the EMU next to the food ser
vice loading docks, is open from 8 a.m. to
11 a.m. every day of the week Staff
members are available if you need help
from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through
Friday.
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