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Hiking AdventuresGet Moving!FULL DAY: Explore the great outdoors! Join a professional hiking guide for a week of day hikes across Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. Each day you’ll hop on the van and head off to explore a different wilderness area, tackling hikes of varying distances and experiencing unique landscapes and challenges. Gain valuable outdoor skills while enjoying the beauty of nature. Packs, walking poles, and other hiking equipment are included.SummerFun! 2025
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Hiking AdventuresVacationFunSpend the school vacation week outside. Each day you’ll hop on the van and head off to explore a different wilderness area, tackling hikes of varying distances and experiencing unique landscapes and challenges. Gain valuable outdoor skills while enjoying the beauty of nature. Please note that this is a 3-day program. Rain dates may apply. Some necessary equipment (including hiking backpacks, microspikes, snowshoes, and headlamps) will be provided. Please have sturdy and waterproof boots, wool or synthetic layers, and cold weather outerwear. Gloves and a winter hat are required.VacationFun! April 2025
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Art on the TrailGet Moving!FULL DAY: Create art focused on the natural world and your surroundings as you travel to different habitats across northeastern Massachusetts. Summit a mountain and learn tricks to create depth in your artwork, draw the animals you see in motion at the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, explore the tidal pools and make 3D rock sculptures from the granite quarry remnants at Halibut Point in Rockport, and learn watercolor techniques inspired by the flow of water over the massive rock formations at Purgatory Chasm. Each day we will visit a unique and beautiful landscape and create art in different media.SummerFun! 2025
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Starting SoonHiking ClubGet MovingGet outdoors and enjoy the natural world. Hike local wilderness areas such as the Middlesex Fells Reservation, Walden Pond, and the Western Greenway, led by an experienced guide. Engage your curiosity, seek out adventure, build camaraderie, and increase your stamina on hikes of varying distances and challenges. Gain confidence as you learn how to read trail maps, use a compass, and employ other navigation techniques, as well as read the forest for clues about the non-human life around us. Our club will culminate in an optional full-day hike* in the White Mountain National Forest. Transportation from Gibbs/OMS and all necessary equipment will be provided for both the club and the hike. All necessary equipment (including hiking backpacks, microspikes, snowshoes and headlamps) will be provided for both the club and the hike. * Note: The full-day hike is on Sunday, June 1 (not June 8 as the catalog lists) and is open to Hiking Club members only, register separately.Spring 2025
