We are leaving this page for future reference. Please find info about the next trip at
Outdoor Club Coming Attractions
Here was the 2022 info:
Signups for the between summer and fall quarter trip
to Grand Teton National Park
(official days: August 14 – 30, 2022, each student chooses which days they will attend)
have things you must do before you come to sign up.
You always need to bring a photo ID
(which could be a drivers license or a clear photo on your cell phone of your passport)
and proof you are a De Anza student to be able to sign up for an event.
(For proof of enrollment you can show us, on your smart-enough phone, your enrollment at the Portal.)
You can’t just show up for an off-campus event and expect to participate without having signed up in advance in person and having paid in advance. If you are under 18 your parent / guardian must sign you up, in person, with you.
You can’t sign up on-line, by email or at this website, each student must appear in person to sign trip agreements/releases.
Your friend or even your spouse can’t sign the required paperwork.
There are no waitlists for club events.
Step One (many students have already done this step)
All De Anza Outdoor Club events require an in-person, on campus signup.
Everyone coming on campus,
whether for an in-person class,
to go to the library,
to use the ZOOM spaces https://www.deanza.edu/students/zoom-spaces.html,
to access other college services,
or to sign up in person for Outdoor Club adventures and/or a membership
must submit proof of full Covid vaccination and booster before they come on campus or register for an on-campus class.
If you are not enrolled in an in-person on campus class and have not submitted your vaccination proof, please read:
https://www.deanza.edu/return-to-campus/students.html
and follow through by doing the things you must do before you come to talk to us / do trip paperwork on campus.
Step Two
If you read the Grand Teton trip webpage
and the Grand Teton sample trip agreement
before you come to sign up, it will go much faster and you will better be able to pass the trip pre-test.
(The first people who took the test in 2021 got perfect or near-perfect scores.)
Step Three
Along with the trip agreement you will need to sign another college release. You should print it and fill it out in advance by going to:
(Especially important to note if you are under 18 years old a parent/guardian will need to sign it in person and be at your overnight accommodation during the trip.)
Step Four
We will not accept a rain poncho.
We will not accept thin, easily torn temporary rain gear like they sell at airports for emergencies.
(If you do not have the rain gear with you when we are going kayaking, you will not kayak that day.)
Read more details about the right gear at snow or rain camp must-haves
Step Five
If you choose to camp, we would also like to see your tent, to be sure it will be adequate. You can pitch it at the pool deck. Some people have told us past years for our Yosemite trips that they had a great tent but brought one that was not and ended up sleeping in their car.
There are crucial things wrong with each of these tents.
If you do not recognize why they are bad tents (or why the tents were set up poorly)
please read Don’t buy a cheap tent.
If you choose to camp, it could be a good idea to have at least looked at all the potential overnight accommodations.
Some people on the trip will share cabins, see: Colter Bay Cabins
Step Six
You must bring a photo ID and your money order payment when you come to sign up.
(You can come to one of the signups meetings and get questions answered
and/or take the pretest
and show us your waterproof rain gear,
but you can’t sign up unless you have your trip payment with you.)
see: how to get a money order to pay for an Outdoor Club trip
Step Seven
Signups for the trip might not start until summer quarter.
The sign ups for the 2022 Grand Teton trip will be:
Saturdays, XXX XXX at 2:30 p.m. until done (maybe a quickly as in a half hour, maybe longer).
For all signups we meet down at the pool deck, to the right of the light blue rectangle labeled “Pools” in the map above.
A swim class will be in session so you might have to wait a bit to get help.
AND last chance to sign up for the trip, will be at the pre-trip meeting, Saturday, XXXXX at 2:30 p.m.
This might be the time people finally arrange carpools or caravans, or make final arrangements to share campsites, overnight accommodations.
Yes, the last chance to sign up is two weeks before the official trip first day.
Because:
The people who got campsite and cabin reservations in advance of the trip have a
deadline to get their deposits refunded
if people do not use all the extra campsites and cabins.
Once we know for sure how many people are going, we have lots of prep work to do, including a cleaning of each kayak and canoe we bring so they can pass the required inspections in Idaho on the way there and in Grand Teton park before they can be permitted and used there.
People who wait until the last minute to sign up for Outdoor Club adventures
are sometimes left out.
