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Outdoor Club Coming Attractions
Last chance to sign up for the 2023 Grand Teton trip, is Saturday, July 22, 2023.
Signups for the between summer and fall quarter trip
to Grand Teton National Park
(official days: August 13 – 30, 2023, 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 valid government-issued 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.
There were Covid vaccination and booster requirements in effect before early July, and they could come back again.
IF THE VACCINATION RULE CHANGES again, new info will be at:
https://www.deanza.edu/return-to-campus/students.html
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, 2022 and 2023 got perfect or near-perfect scores.)
Step Three
To sign up for the trip you must show us your waterproof hooded rain jacket and pants.
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 Four
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.
It can be difficult to coordinate timing of activities if we don’t all stay in the same area, so we’ve all stayed at Colter Bay for at least part of the time, if not most of the time, on previous trips.
The “Outdoor Club” does not get campsites (or any overnight accommodations),
students on the trip get them and share them as they want to.
See info at: Colter Bay campground,
Some people on the trip will share cabins, see: Colter Bay Cabins
and people on previous trips have also shared a
(The bear dining on watermelon above was NOT from one of our trips.)
Step FIVE
You must bring a valid government-issued photo ID and your money order payment when you come to sign up.
(You can come to one of the early 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 Six
The sign ups for the 2023 Grand Teton trip will be:
Please be there promptly, as the paperwork takes time and we will not be staying a long time for people who arrive late.
You can come to early sign-up dates and get questions answered if you are not quite ready to sign up.
(Six months before the 2023 trip, three people who are sure they are going
got 3 campsites they intend to share, in the best loop (tents only, no generator noise) in the Colter Bay campground reserved for Thursday Aug. 10 – depart Thursday Aug. 24, 2023. The three of them came to an earliest signups meeting and took the pretest and passed it, later coming to pay in full. An additional student took and passed the “test” and brought his cashier’s check and paid for the trip in April. And later, three more students took, and passed, the pre-test, with one of them paying in early May.)
Club Day has always been in the main quad, but is was relocated for winter and spring 2023 to the nearby Sunken Garden:
April 27 Club Day (moved ahead one week if rain cancels) runs 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. (maybe extended to 2 p.m.) and we expect to be there as early at 9:30 a.m. You should not expect to show up at noon and be able to get all the paperwork done for any signup, but can come and ask questions.
(There will be an early signup Saturday, March 11, and Saturday, March 18 at noon.)
Saturdays, at 2 p.m. until done (maybe a quickly as in a half hour, maybe longer).
April 22, 29, May 13, June 10 and June 24.
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.
June 24 we had a great meeting and made more solid plans for carpools and overnight accommodations.
and we will have more signups Saturday July 15,
AND last chance to sign up for the trip, Saturday, July 22
from noon until 1 p.m. at the east end of the De Anza swimming pool. Please be there promptly, as the paperwork takes time and we will not be staying a long time for people who arrive late.
The last chance might be the time people finally fully arrange carpools or caravans, or make final arrangements to share campsites, overnight accommodations.
Please arrive promptly at noon, because the paperwork takes time to complete and we will not be staying after for a long time for people who arrive too late.
The last chance to sign up needs to be 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 National 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.
