🌶️ Spicy summer scheming social: trail running, big hikes, and more!
- Leaders
- Charlotte Folinus, Juliana Lu-Yang, Monika O'Shea
- Type
- Trail running
- Trip date
- Tuesday, April 14th
- Difficulty rating
- EZ
- Prerequisites
- Interest in trail running, mountain running, fastpacking, and/or big hiking days
Tuesday, April 14, 7-9pm, location TBD at MIT
What's happening?
Join us for an evening of food, friends, and getting stoked about trails and mountains! Whether you're endurance-curious or already crushing big days in the Whites, come hang out, share stories, and get inspired for summer adventures.
This will be a mix of:
- Social time with food and good company
- Trip reports from recent adventures
- Short presentations on practical topics
- Planning, dreaming, and scheming about summer goals
Presentation topics (looking for more presenters, too!)
We'll have a handful (probably not all of these) of short presentations on topics like:
- Getting started with mountain/trail running
- "How I went from running in the Fells to hiking/running my first Presi"
- What is fastpacking? (+ trip report)
- What is picnicking? (+ trip report)
- Quick blitz of awesome shorter runs in NE
- Trip reports on longer/crazier days in NE
- Gear / weather / fueling / planning 101
- Cool non-MITOC events: WMSC, TARC races, NEU8, and more
- Anything else you want to share!
Want to present? Reach out to Charlotte/the leaders (email at bottom of page)!
Who should come?
You! Everyone! Seriously. Whether you're:
- Curious about how to build up to bigger trail days
- Already doing these kind of adventures and want and to catch up/meet others
- Looking for summer adventure ideas
- Just want free food and mountain stories
All paces, all experience levels welcome. Come get inspired! 🏔️✨
Signup
- Algorithm
- first-come, first-serve
- Maximum participants
- 30
- Signups opened at
- April 8, 2026, noon
- Signups close at
- April 14, 2026, noon
- Notes
- Do you have any dietary restrictions?
- Any exciting goals for the coming spring/summer/fall season?
- Anything you're particularly excited to hear about?
Signups are open!
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