On October 10th, 2009, the Dartmouth Outing Club with attempt the first-ever single-day hike of the Appalachian Trail by a college. The trail will be divided up into segments, which will be hiked by Dartmouth students, alumni, faculty, staff, family and friends of the Dartmouth Outing Club. Each hiker will have a printable logo to take a picture with on the hike. The pictures will be collected along with trip reports to make a document memorializing the hike. The ATinaday hike is a great way to participate in the Dartmouth Outing Club Centennial.
We are still in need of hikers to hike in Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia. You can register here and use our google maps interface to sign up for your hike! Please email atinaday@dartmouth.edu as well, indicating where you are available to hike.
For those unable to hike, we can still use your help! Volunteers are needed to shuttle hikers from their destination back to their vehicles. You can also help by offering to host hikers from out of town. Please email atinaday@dartmouth.edu with how you would like to help and your location.
Email us at atinaday@dartmouth.edu, or the general DOC centennial account, doc100@dartmouth.edu. We will return your email as soon as we can!
We are now offering one-year DOC memberships to all hikers who are not Dartmouth affliated. Benefits for members include:
To get your membership, you must request it when you send in your hike photo and trip report, after the hike. You must also include a mailing address so that we can send the membership to you.
If you haven't done so already, please contact your section chief to confirm your segment of trail. The section chiefs will pass along that information to us, and we can mark it on our master spreadsheet. If you would like change your segment or hike a different one, please contact your section chief. If you are hiking south of Roanoke, Virginia, email atinaday@dartmouth.edu directly instead.
To find out more information on your segment of trail, ask your section chief or contact your local maintainer club. A listing of trail clubs is available at the Appalachian Trail Conservancy's website at http://www.appalachiantrail.org/. Your local library may have maps and trail data books as well.
ATinaday
PO Box 9
Hanover, NH 03755
We will collect all the pictures and trip reports and compile them into a document on the hike, which will be made available online, presented at the DOC banquet, displayed in Robinson hall and then submitted to Rauner Special Collections library.
The hike will begin at 12:01 am on Oct.10th and extend for a 24 hour period. Hikers that are planning to do long hikes should consider starting early in the morning to complete their hike before midnight.
The hike is open to Dartmouth students, staff, faculty, alumni, their family and friends of the Dartmouth Outing Club. Although the majority of hikers are alumni, hikers who carry the AT in a day logo with them are considered friends of the DOC.
The hike will go on independent of weather conditions on Oct.10th Hikers should be prepared for sun, rain, cold, and possibly snow in Northern New Hampshire and Maine. The list below should serve as a guide on what to bring. Use your best judgment.
Fundamental to our goal of the hike is that everyone stays safe. You can stay safe by doing the following: 1) Be prepared with appropriate knowledge and gear; 2) Let someone else know your plans; 3) Hiking groups should stick together, and not let themselves become separated; 4) Hikers should always be ready to turn back if circumstances, such as changing weather, dictate; 5) Hikers should be ready for emergencies. Also keep in mind that while hiking you are representing the Dartmouth Outing Club, so please be considerate of other hikers.
The Appalachian Trail is maintained by 30 trail clubs, including the Dartmouth Outing Club. The trail is overseen by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, a volunteer organization dedicated to preserving the trail. To learn more about the AT, and how you can help with trail stewardship, please visit http://www.appalachiantrail.org/
If you have an questions regarding your segment of trail, what the terrain might be like and what they region is like, or how logistics is going to work out, please forward them to your section chief. Any other questions can be sent to atinaday (at) dartmouth dot edu. We will try to respond to your email as fast as we can, but keep in mind that we are a small number of college students taking classes.
If you are interested in signing up for an unclaimed section south of Roanoke, Virginia, please send us an email as soon as possible.
Thank you so much for participating in this historic event! Happy Hiking!
-Matt Dahlhausen '11 & Athena Aicher '11
ATinaday Directors
-Alice Bradley '11 & Max Friedman '10
DOC Centennial Directors
-Tom Flynn '11
DOC president
problems? email docwebmaster at dartmouth dot edu