By Mya Laliberte. Published on February 8, 2023
BOC Leadership Meeting Minutes: 2/6/23
- Mitchel.
- Winter Carvinal coming up.
- Pinlenand trip. (Claire)
- Climbing trip.
- Two vans are needed for the cross-country trip.
- Are trips coming up this Sunday?
- A Sugarloaf trip coming up.
- Rock climbing meeting. (Mitchel)
- The next BOC meeting could be a rock climbing meeting.
- Liina can teach some rock climbing skills at a seminar/meeting.
- Teach a pre-climbing test for the EVO trips.
- Start a reset of the wall while teaching some type of climbing seminar (switch out between groups).
- Meeting with someone to figure out the investment to buy a new board.
- Maybe still keep the old one so more people can climb?
- Climbing wall hours so people can supervise/work?
- Ethan.
- Puddle jump volunteers? EMS?
- Thoughts on the current schedule of Spring trips?
- All of them are on the current calendar and have sufficient planning that should make them possible.
- Is any plan in place for a torchlight run?
- Probably not possible at this point.
- We have leftover Acadia rentals from AESOP that can be used to turn into a trip this Spring. (Catie)
- It could be trips that go/camp together but do different levels of activity on different days. (David)
- Spring trips. (Mitchel)
- March 17th, Heidi running a snowshoe trip.
- April 14th, Acadia with Alli, David, Lucy, and Levi.
- Finals week, so it could be moved to April 21st.
- EVO during March.
- Friday’s 4:00-8:00, possibly? (Liina and Nathan)
- Van drivers are needed.
- Moose Hillock. (David and Noah)
- Open Sunday if anyone wants to claim a trip.
- Been a lot of interest in Catie leading a trip in May.
- White water rafting trip.
- Cutler Coast.
- Backpacking Presidentials. (Claire)
- Dependant on the weather. May 14th-15th.
- Exploratory climbing? (Liina)
- Possible overnight trip leader training March/April.
- Tommo.
- Been planning some surf trips.
- An overnight trip during short term to short ridge house by Popham Beach.
- Sustainable surf lessons.
- Maine Surfers Union at Higgins Beach does surf lessons with all gear provided.
- June-September, good for next fall.
- Some day trips during short term.
- BOC battleship.
- Planning for next Fall. (Catie)
- Clam Bake September 24th.
- Baxter State Park “kickoff.” (Mitchel)
- Reservations are 4 months rolling. Tentatively September 16th-17th.
- Peaks Week, September 9th-16th.
- It could be a heavy week for us to plan trips every day during the first week of school.
- No show policy?
- If you do not show up for one trip or cancel within 24 hours it is a warning, and if you do it a second time you can not show up to any trips for the rest of the year. Policy can change depending on how long the trip is.
- Rewriting constitution within equity and inclusion.
- Catie and Mitchel have a goal to have it done in the next couple of weeks.
- Heidi.
- Thursday from 7:45-9:10 Heidi is going to LHS for “outdoor class” to talk about winter gear information and lead a fun snowshoe demonstration.
- Could also happen with Montello Elementary School and Edward Little.
- AT Ideas.
- At some point people will come to one of the BOC meetings and do a presentation on maintaining our part of the AT.
- April/May maintaining the trail.
- Dedicated Short Term planning with trip leaders in March?
- Boat day to repair boats. (Catie)
- Monthly van rentals? (David)
- Senior oriented BOC events? (Nathan and Ethan)
- Rent out Short Ridge.
- No reason there can’t be the BOC within senior week.
- Email Mya any election process ideas.
- Leadership meetings twice a month rather than once for an hour and a half. This would rotate with BOC meetings and would be a meeting everyweek. (Catie)