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 »

Trip and Event Calendar Gear Room Hours Sunday 7 - 9 pm Tuesday 4 - 6 pm Thursday 7 - 9 pm Friday 1:30 - 3:30 pm Climbing Wall at the Buck Monitored Hours: Monday - Thursday: 4 - 10 pm Friday - Sunday: 3 - 6 pm Bouldering Hours: Certified climbers may boulder on the wall anytime the fitness center is open.

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.

Devin Farkas, Outing Club Assistant Director
dfarkas@bowdoin.edu  (207) 725-3325
Devin Farkas grew up in the beautiful Hudson Valley of New York and attended Hamilton College in picturesque Clinton, New York.  While at Hamilton Devin lead backpacking, rock climbing, winter camping and ice climbing trips throughout New England.  In addition he facilitated ropes course training and telemark skiing classes on campus.  In the summers Devin left the state of New York to led backpacking trips in the Wyoming Rockies, canoe trips in southern Ontario, and sea kayaking trips on Lake Superior.  After graduating from Hamilton in 2010 Devin joined the BOC staff and is fired up to expand BOC climbing wall programming, create an outdoor climbing program, and lead sweet sea kayaking trips in coastal Maine!

Becca Austin '10, Outing Club Assistant Director
raustin@bowdoin.edu (207) 725-3125
Becca Austin is a native of East Millinocket, Maine and a recent graduate from Bowdoin College.  She graduated in 2010 with a major in Biology and a minor in Chemistry.  During her time at Bowdoin, Becca played as a defender on the Bowdoin Women’s Lacrosse team, serving as a co-captain her senior year.  She also enjoyed playing club soccer, hockey and basketball.  In addition she was the co-founder and club head to the Polar Pep Band.  After completing Leadership Training during the fall of her freshman year Becca also became a leader in the outing club.  And her senior year she worked as a Wall Monitor at the climbing wall.  Growing up in Maine and going on adventures with her family sparked her love of the outdoors.  In particular, Becca has developed a great fondness for water!  She experienced her first canoe trip at the ripe age of 6 months and multiday canoe trips with family and relatives after she got a bit older.  During college, Becca spent her summers as a Registered Maine Whitewater Rafting Guide, leading commercial trips through class III, IV and V rapids in Maine on the West Branch of the Penobscot, Kennebec and Dead Rivers.  In addition to rafting, she enjoys whitewater kayaking, canoeing, hiking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, telemark skiing – just about any sort of adventure and/or camping trip!

BOC Officers
Co-president Sarah Liu ’13 | sliu@bowdoin.edu
Co-president Max Brandstadt ’13 | mbrandst@bowdoin.edu
Treasurer Clare Stansberry ’14 | cstansbe@bowdoin.edu
Secretary Zara Bowden ’13 | zbowden@bowdoin.edu
(207) 798-4268

BOC Executive Committee
Hiking Chairs | Steph Lynn ’14; Stephen Ligtenberg ’15
Climbing Chairs | Adam Berliner ’13; Eli Peirce ’15
Sea Kayak Chairs | Bess Carter ’13; Eliot Taft ’15
Telemark Chairs | Adam Berliner ’13; Emma Rieves ’15
Whitewater Rafting Chairs | Sarah Johnson ’13; John Swords ’15
Whitewater Kayaking Chairs | Rainer Kenney ’13; Nina Scheepers ’14; Eric Levenson ’15
Canoe Chairs | Walt Wuthmann ’14; Cam Adams ’14; Erica Berry ’14
Archery Chair | Danica Loucks ’13
Surfing Chairs | Ryan Peabody ’14; Tim Hunt ’14
Mountain Biking Chair | Charley Cubeta ’13
Road Biking Chair | Nathan Ricke ’14
Winter Programming Chair | Andrew Pryhuber ’15
Events Coordinator | Meena Dieterich ’14
OZ Chair | Imelda Ko ’14
Off-campus Facilities Chair | Alex Thompson ’13
Gear Room Manager | Ben Richmond ’13
Van Czar | Jonathan Song ’13
Community Service Coordinator | Jess Caron ’13
Twin Coordinator | Richard Joyce ’13
At-Large Members | Elena Britos ’15; Peter Yaworsky ’13; Jerrod Dobkins ’15; Anna Hall; Karl Koehler; Erin Leddy