Spring Break
Adventure Center Opens In Union
Aly Shea
Issue date: 2/22/08 Section: News
The clinics include geocaching, mountain biking and backpacking as well as open-water SCUBA diving certification.
"Everything's for the beginner, "Huck said. "Students shouldn't feel intimidated."
The Outdoor Adventure program also has programs across New England in the works, including cross-country skiing in Vermont, hiking and mountaineering on Mounts Monadnock and Washington, N.H. More locally, the trips include mountain biking along the Hop River Trail, backpacking along a section of the Appalachian trail and climbing at Wolf Rock.
All trips use the equipment in the center and the cost of each trip includes the cost of using the equipment.
However, some don't even need to go far to use the equipment ñ Wihbey said that several students had gotten tents from the center to camp out at Gampel before a basketball game earlier in the semester.
The Adventure Center opened for business in January, but will celebrate its formal grand opening today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 1 p.m. and cake after. Because it is also National Recreational Sports and Fitness Day, the event will also feature healthy food such as yogurt and granola.
To celebrate their opening and National Recreational Sports and Fitness Day, the Adventure Center will have a table with brochures, stickers and carabineers as well as displays of tents, snowshoes and other equipment in order to encourage participation in their programs.
"We want to encourage people to get outdoors and get physically fit," Huck said.
Other events will show students the variety of activities offered by Recreation services including Bodywise classes and intramural sports.
Students who swipe into the SRF on Friday will receive prizes, according to a poster outside its door.
Recreation services will also be hosting events throughout the day and weekend for students including a trip to the Banff Film Festival. The festival travels all around the world showing outdoor adventure-based films.
"Everything's for the beginner, "Huck said. "Students shouldn't feel intimidated."
The Outdoor Adventure program also has programs across New England in the works, including cross-country skiing in Vermont, hiking and mountaineering on Mounts Monadnock and Washington, N.H. More locally, the trips include mountain biking along the Hop River Trail, backpacking along a section of the Appalachian trail and climbing at Wolf Rock.
All trips use the equipment in the center and the cost of each trip includes the cost of using the equipment.
However, some don't even need to go far to use the equipment ñ Wihbey said that several students had gotten tents from the center to camp out at Gampel before a basketball game earlier in the semester.
The Adventure Center opened for business in January, but will celebrate its formal grand opening today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 1 p.m. and cake after. Because it is also National Recreational Sports and Fitness Day, the event will also feature healthy food such as yogurt and granola.
To celebrate their opening and National Recreational Sports and Fitness Day, the Adventure Center will have a table with brochures, stickers and carabineers as well as displays of tents, snowshoes and other equipment in order to encourage participation in their programs.
"We want to encourage people to get outdoors and get physically fit," Huck said.
Other events will show students the variety of activities offered by Recreation services including Bodywise classes and intramural sports.
Students who swipe into the SRF on Friday will receive prizes, according to a poster outside its door.
Recreation services will also be hosting events throughout the day and weekend for students including a trip to the Banff Film Festival. The festival travels all around the world showing outdoor adventure-based films.
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