<p>I got everything except housing, based on everyone's posts.</p>
<p>Got the First Year Booklet today! If someone gets DOC trips, post a description (if any) of the whitewater and flatwater kayaking - DD is interested in this one, and needs to sign up before she leaves for far far away on Sat.</p>
<p>Ive gotten everything, my housing came today</p>
<p>C,</p>
<p>I think that the flatwater is more for beginners and less experienced kayakers, and I think they use the lake. If I remember correctly they would like for your to have a little experience to do the whitewater kayaking and there is a swimming requirement.</p>
<p>here is the addling link so that you have some idea of the waters they are in. Do you have an e-mail or a contact number for the DOC trip coordinator? School is still in session as classes just ended yesterday so people are still around. They are pretty ameniable and will explain everything.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Edoc/paddling/%5B/url%5D">http://www.dartmouth.edu/~doc/paddling/</a></p>
<p>Thanks, that may be helpful. She would like to try the whitewater, but may not have enough kayaking experience - she's kayaked, and done whitewater rafting, but her kayaking experience is in a muddy, swampy bay with lots of alligators - no Eskimo rolls there, not if you can help it.</p>
<p>Cangel - </p>
<p>D did the whitewater trip last year and I would have her reply but she is swamped with finals. I think the fact that she has been been in a kayak (paddling around on a river but no whitewater) and down many whitewater rivers on a raft, and been down some minor rapids in an inflatable kayak, helped her be selected, but... she really does not have whitewater kayaking experience either - and no Eskimo roll. That level experience was NOT required for this trip. </p>
<p>It was cold and raining the entire trip last year - she actually slept (under a tarp) in puddles of water, and somehow mananged to have a fantastic time. (Much to do with the leaders and the tacit decision of the fellow trippees to be good sport). The whitewater she saw was really, really manageable stuff and I think your daughter, with her experience would find it so as well.</p>
<p>As you know, the intensity of rapids can change with conditions (volume of water) but likely in Aug/Sept., the volume of the river will be fairly predictable and not as much as in the Spring. Last year they boated on a section of the Androscoggin - not sure where but North and I believe East of Hanover. Not sure if that would be the case this year.</p>
<p>The important thing is do they hold either of the kayaking sessions when she is looking to schedule her trip (does she plan of just coming to hanover and moving in after the DOC trip?) Is the schedule pretty much the same as last year's?</p>
<p>S is moving in on Sept 5 (labor day) that is when her Dorm opens so she will definitely be around should K need to drop something off.</p>
<p>Thanks Ohmadre! That is quite helpful, because that is about the level of her experience. She did some rafting last summer on the ?Deerfield? river in Western Mass, but she considered it extremely tame compared to some of her other rafting experiences - high water rafting on the Ocoee, where they did the '96 Olympic kayaking - but she has never whitewater kayaked, actually wants to try, but it needs to be relatively tame rapids.</p>
<p>Thanks Sybbie, that's what she is waiting for - the actual schedule. She's leaving the country on Sat for a couple of weeks, and wanted to get her DOC request in before she left. Maybe she'll make it, maybe I'll be reading it to her over the phone next week!</p>
<p>Does anyone have the link for online DOC registration?</p>
<p>Did you check the Dartmouth 2009 site, @ <a href="http://2009.dartmouth.edu/beingan09/%5B/url%5D">http://2009.dartmouth.edu/beingan09/</a>
as it may be there. Once you log in there should be some options on the right hand side of the menu. It could be there</p>