Come hang out room 32-155 (Stata center) to hear about the adventures of fellow MITOCers!

Presenters will be sharing photos and stories from their trips, and there will be time before and after for socializing. Light dinner will be provided.

Doors will open at 6:30pm, presentations will start at 7pm.

This event is co-sponsored by the MIT Graduate Student Council

Presentations:

Hannah Boyce: First backpacking trip? First solo trip? Why not TMB!

Come see some pretty pictures of the Alps from my solo trip on Tour du Mont Blanc (TMB), which I did as my first real backpacking trip. I camped every night but one and will share some planning tips and what I would've done differently after 9 days on the trail.

Alex Rose - Freakishly Fun Flyboys: 18 Pitches and an Adventure in Logistics

Flyboys is an 18-pitch 5.9 sport climb in Mazama, WA. The crux of Flyboys, however, is the logistical planning - learning how not to screw it up and die, training for long sport routes in a region where they don't exist, deciding what's for dinner, and, of course, getting sandbagged.

Sunhee Bae: Not the VTXL

Five MITOC-er's bike trip to cows and pies

Jacob W.: Aliens on the PCT???

Looking to learn about astrophysics on your next thru hike? The Canadian Hydrogen Mapping Experiment (CHIME) just commissioned a telescope at the Hat Creek Observatory, just 3 miles off the PCT! This telescope, along with Allen Telescope Array (quite literally looking for green men on other worlds) could be a pit stop on your next adventure. I (Jacob Willis) spent a few weeks in 2024 commissioning the CHIME telescope while also having shenanigans in the Sierras.

Carolina: Boca de Tomatlan – Waterfall Quest

How to hike 10 mi across the Mexican beaches and NOT get sick afterwards...

Liam Morley : Georgia to Maine

Brief description of a 2024 AT thru hike along with takeaways

Jolien van Nieuwenhuizen, Florian Pagnoux: The California Writing Retreat

Wrapping up a PhD can feel like a daunting and dragging process. Freedom feels so close, yet your advisor insists on this last paper. Should you start spending your days and nights in the lab? Or maybe you’ve been doing it all wrong. Maybe what you need is some perspective. And for that, what a better way than standing on top of a 14’000 peak? Or looking up at a 2000 years old giant Sequoia tree? Come hear about Jolien and Florian’s California retreat, featuring gorgeous national parks, nasty marmots and gear heists.