<p>Does this club exist? I’ve tried to find out about it on the web, but keep coming up with dead links. Does anyone know?</p>
<p>ooh, I wanna know about this too! anyone know?</p>
<p>this?
<a href="http://www.brown.edu/Students/Brown_Outing_Club/%5B/url%5D">http://www.brown.edu/Students/Brown_Outing_Club/</a></p>
<p>They definitely exist and are active, despite their lack of an updated website. There are two different halves to the club:</p>
<p>The first is that you pay a $5.00 per year and are able to borrow gear from their office for your own use (harnesses and shoes for climbing, sleeping bags for camping, etc.). I've heard they have weekly office hours where you can pick up the equipment; you leave them a check for the value of whatever you're borrowing, and when you return it your check is destroyed (so you are only charged if you lose the equipment).</p>
<p>The second consists of different organized outings in the area and also in New England. They have a weekly climbing trip at the Rhode Island Rock Gym. They also just had numerous camping trips over the long weekend to places like Vermont and New Hampshire, as well as some more local trips (there was at least one outdoor climbing trip each day this past weekend).</p>
<p>There's a listserv that includes all information on the trips they plan, so that's how students find out about the trips. It would be nicer if they had an updated website, but the trips they have are cool enough so that the group is more than sufficient.</p>