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College Outdoors provides the Lewis & Clark College community with access to the spectacular outdoor environments of the Pacific Northwest through a variety of activities including hiking, mushroom-hunting, cross-country skiing, backpacking, whitewater rafting, kayaking, and nature meditation. No experience is necessary! Trips are open to Lewis and Clark Students, Staff, and Faculty.
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College Outdoors Events
Student Coordinator Training Trip
Spring on the sunny, dry side of the Columbia Gorge is amazing, with rainbows of wildflowers in bloom and bountiful spring plants. Learn to use a topographic map and a compass for Navigation, learn (and learn to lead) some environmental education topics, and build community with other College Outdoors leaders!
Climbing Shuttle
Mondays and Thursdays, 7-9 pm Ride our FREE shuttle to the Circuit Bouldering Gym! Does not include gym entry or rentals. Signing up on the sheet outside Fowler 239 reserves your spot, or you can show up at 6:45 pm the day the shuttle leaves and see if there is space! Meets at Pio bus stop near Fowler.
Sign up begins on Fridays, the week before the shuttle date
Climbing Shuttle
Mondays and Thursdays, 7-9 pm Ride our FREE shuttle to the Circuit Bouldering Gym! Does not include gym entry or rentals. Signing up on the sheet outside Fowler 239 reserves your spot, or you can show up at 6:45 pm the day the shuttle leaves and see if there is space! Meets at Pio bus stop near Fowler.
Sign up begins on Fridays, the week before the shuttle date
The Indigenous Land Our Community Occupies
The Lewis & Clark College Outdoors program recognizes that we work, play, explore, and learn on the traditional lands of peoples including the Kalapuya, the Northern Molala, the Multnomah, the Tualatin, and the Cowlitz nations. These names are often left out of the stories of these lands. We recognize their rightful ownership of these lands and that, those of us who are settlers, only have the opportunities to have these unique learning and explorative experiences because of the forceful removal of indigenous peoples from them.
While it is part of our educational process to exercise leave no trace, conservation, protection, and rehabilitation principles, this acknowledgement calls us to commit to continuing to learn how to be better stewards of the land we inhabit. We take this moment to offer respect to those from past and present that have made activities such as these in places such as these, possible. You can learn more about indigenous lands throughout the United States at https://native-land.ca/