Outing Club
at the Schwartz Outdoor Leadership Center
Location
Bowdoin Outing Club
9090 College Station
Brunswick, ME 04011
207-725-3346
We are located in the Schwartz Outdoor Leadership Center. Driving directions and map »
Gear Room Hours:
Spring, 2009
Sunday 7 - 9 pm
Tuesday 4 - 6 pm
Thursday 7 - 9 pm
Friday 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Mike Woodruff '87, Outing Club Director
mwoodruf@bowdoin.edu (207) 725-3346
Upon completing his degree at Bowdoin Mike headed to the Southeastern United States to pursue his lifelong passion of paddling whitewater. During his 5 years in the region Mike kayaked, canoed, and rafted many major rivers, minor tributarys, and flooded creeks in the area. In ’92 Mike returned to the rivers of Maine to work with BOC director emeritus Jim Lentz. Since then Mike has overseen and managed the BOC’s explosion of growth to become the largest student organization on campus. Mike’s passion for whitewater, the outdoors, and student leadership has inspired and empowered countless numbers of Bowdoin students and established the outing club as an iconic fixture of the Bowdoin campus. While not teaching whitewater paddling, telemark skiing, or outdoor leadership Mike is a burgeoning organic farmer and lives on a farm in Brunswick, Maine, with his fantastic (and very patient) wife, Lucretia (former Co-Director of the BOC), and their sons Finnegan, Seamus, and Daire, and daughter Maeve.
Bree Simmons, Outing Club Assistant Director
bsimmons@bowdoin.edu (207) 725-3325
Bree is no stranger to the New England outdoors! She grew up in Middlebury, Vermont where she was an avid backpacker and road biker. After graduating high school Bree spent 6 months in Cairns, Australia participating in an outdoor leadership course. She explored the varied terrain of the outback by backpacking, sea kayaking, rock climbing, whitewater kayaking and canoeing. When her course was over, Bree returning to the U.S. to attend Davidson College. During the Fall of her Junior year she spent a semester sea kayaking and mountaineering in the Patagonia region of Chile. During her college summers Bree led backpacking trips in Wyoming, Montana and Costa Rica, road biking trips around Cape Cod and its islands and service trips in Massachusetts. After graduating from Davidson with a degree in visual arts, Bree spent two years abroad teaching English in Prague. She was lured away from the Czech Republic in 2008 when she began her tenure at the BOC. Since joining the staff Bree has strengthened the sea kayaking, winter mountaineering, and backpacking programs and created the first ever BOC road biking Pre Orientation trip, bike mechanic course, and weekend century rides to the Common Ground Fair. Bree brings her enthusiasm and extensive experience to every aspect of the BOC and is always on the lookout for new road bikers!
Zander Abbott '08, Outing Club Assistant Director
aabbott@bowdoin.edu (207) 725-3125
Maine’s rocky coast and interior mountains first lured Zander away from the flat plains of Minnesota in 2004. While completing his degree at Bowdoin, he was a double major in mathematics and psychology. Outside of the classroom, Zander was an active leader for the Bowdoin Outing Club as well as the Inter House Council and the Men’s Ultimate Frisbee team. During the summer months, Zander strayed from Maine to hone his outdoor skills leading backpacking trips in the Pisgah National Forest of North Carolina and the Chugach State Park, the Denali National Park, and the Talkeetna mountain range of Alaska. After graduating in the 2008, Zander spent a final summer teaching an outdoor leadership course in Alaska before returning to Bowdoin. At the Schwartz Outdoor Leadership Center he shares his passions for hiking, sea kayaking, winter camping, cross country skiing, and biking with BOC leaders, members, and the general campus!
BOC Officers
Co-President Sarah Ebel '10 sebel@bowdoin.edu
Co-President Ben Roberts-Pierel '10 broberts@bowdoin.edu
Treasurer Paul Landsberg '10 plansbe@bowdoin.edu
Secretary Shelley Levin '10 slevin@bowdoin.edu
(207) 798-4268