Membership benefitsStudents don't have to be a club member to go on events, but members usually pay from $5 to $10 less per event and sometimes get to sign up before other students.
Members get to rent club-owned equipment for club events. We own tents, lanterns and stoves in backpack and basecamp sizes, insulated sleeping pads, thermarests, gaiters, maps, first-aid kits, dining canopies, backpacks, kayaks, life-jackets, water-purifying pumps, Garcia canisters, folding chairs, ice chests, fanny packs, snowshovels, two-way radios, geez we've got a lot of stuff!
Members who pay a $15 (for 365 days) rental fee along with their membership can use club equipment with refundable cleaning and late fee deposits (if you return the gear clean, in good condition and on time). Members who do not pay the yearly fee can rent equipment at about half the price of a local rental company chosen by the club officers.
Details about equipment and rentals can be found at: Outdoor Club Equipment and Outdoor Club Sample Rental Agreement
According to a 2012 price list for a local outdoor gear rental firm, one full size (6 ft)Thermarest insulating pad would cost you as much as $30 for a weekend, a 2 person tent $60, a one burner stove $30. But as an Outdoor Club member with the yearly rental fee paid, your rentals from our club for our events are free and and fully refundable (if you return the gear clean, in good condition and on time).
We only have one equipment rental time for each trip and only one return time to get a full refund.
Below: a spacious eight-person Cabela tent (we fit a lot more people in than show in the photo).
For a limited time (until we run out of them) new members who pay the yearly rental fee get a free club logo (eleven tool) jacknife as shown below:
Members don't have to attend meetings unless they want to sign up for an event or volunteer to help on trips or run a trip.
For details about club events and on how to find us to pay for a membership, sign up for events or volunteer, go to:
Outdoor Club Coming Attractions
Only members can be officers. Read Outdoor Club Constitution for more info.
Any club member can propose and plan a club trip. For details about how click on: Club Trip Leader Job Description
How club money is spent is at: Outdoor Club Finances
More club info is at:
Outdoor Club Basic Info
Carpool FAQs
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The Outdoor Club is a completely volunteer organization, neither the officers nor the advisor are paid. As a result you will not get the same "service" from us as from a professional group. We do not have the time to return phone calls or emails from people asking questions that they could have found the answers to by simply looking through this website. We can't always find a way to sign up people who can't make it to our regular meetings, to a class when we are there, or to a table we have on campus. People who wait until the last minute to sign up are sometimes left out.
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