<p>Hey everyone!</p>
<p>Does anyone know the schedule for the first year trips? </p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>i'm pretty sure the DOC itself is sending out the info later... it's usually end of august/beginning of september, from what i know</p>
<p>there is a schedule up on the outing club website under "first year trips" and then in one of the sub-menus...doesn't say anything more than the trip and leaders, but if you were wondering the schedule there it is</p>
<p>Trip Schedule:</p>
<p>First-Year Trips is divided into nine sections, with staggered overlapping dates. Each section is five days long: on the first day new students arrive, check in, meet their tripmates and leader, and spend the night here on campus in DOC-supplied lodgings. On the second and third days trips head out to spend two nights in the wilderness. On the fourth day all the trips from a section tromp out of the wilderness and converge on the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge for dinner, entertainment, stories, and camaraderie. On the fifth day trips return to Hanover. Participants in the first four sections (drawn primarily from the northeast U.S.) then return home; participants in the last five sections can immediately move into their rooms when their trip returns.</p>
<p>So Sybbie, as a parent who has gone through all this before, and probably chatted it up with other parents too, if I'm coming from the midwest and will be taking a later trip, when is it easiest to bring all my 'stuff'? Should my parents fly in with it after my trip? Should I bring it with me before my trip and store it somewhere, and then meet up with my parents after my trip? If I go on one of the Sept.6-11 trips, where do I stay until dorms open on Sept. 14? Do you happen to know any trips that are better than others? At Dimensions, one of my hosts got to stay in cabins during her DOC trips; in the mailing we get later, will the description for each trip say if the accomodations are cabins or tents?</p>
<p>Hi Saila,</p>
<p>If you go on the trip that ends on Sept 11, you move into your dorm. You can bring some stuff on the front end, the school will allow you to drop it off in your room (definitely take toiletries and clean clothes for when you get out of the woods). I don't think you get back from your trip until late in the afternoon. </p>
<p>Your parents can be there on the late afternoon on the 11th or the 12th to bring in all of your stuff ,make the trip to west leb to walmart if they need to pick up any incidental stuff.</p>
<p>Even though we live in NYC, I sent a lot of stuff up to school via UPS (the mailroom will hold your stuff as of the first week in september) and picked it up on move in day. The only stuff she actually brought with her was her clothes. You can even ship a trunk as long as it is locked. Once late august hit, anything we ordered i had shipped directly to the school.</p>
<p>As far as what trip is the best it depends on what you like. I do beleive that there is a breif description of each trip. As I said earlier, D is a girly girl and was not into "roughing it" She took nature watercolor because you actually stayed in a cabin. Remember when you hike I think you have to drag your stuff with you.</p>
<p>Great, thanks for the info! Yeah, I think I want to cash in on a cabin as well, I haven't really had any experience '"roughing" it before. So it's not to expensive to UPS stuff, or is it just worth the hassle?</p>
<p>thanks, everyone, for all the great info!</p>