Alpine Club

The Stanford Alpine Club (SAC) has a strong history of alpine excellence at Stanford and beyond. It was founded in 1946. In the 1980's it went dormant; in 2002 it was revived. SAC promotes the safe enjoyment of alpinism (rock climbing, ice climbing, mountaineering, ski mountaineering, etc.) in the Stanford community. It organizes safety focused instructional trips for beginning through more advanced skill-levels, plans trips and other events of interest to members, and provides a forum for members to plan more ambitous personal expeditions. Membership requires demonstrating a working knowledge of basic safety skills. If your interested in outdoor climbing, this is the place! For more information see our webpage at http://alpineclub.stanford.edu.

Climbing Wall

The Stanford Climbing Wall is the product of hard work and persistence by several generations of Stanford students. The wall is a place for climbers of all abilities to share top-rope and bouldering skills. Admission is free and we offer a beginner's introduction to belay technique. Unfortunately, we are required to restrict use of the gym to Stanford students, faculty and staff. Visit www.stanford.edu/group/climbingwall/ for more info.

Kayak Club

The Stanford Kayak club is a community of paddlers interested in promoting the sport of whitewater kayaking and ocean kayak surfing. This means we spend our weekends up in the mountains and down on the beaches playing in our favorite element, water. While we don't sponsor trips, we do provide all the necessary equipment, teach classes, and serve as a forum to allow students to organize their own trips. Our major yearly event is the spring kayak clinic in which we teach beginners the basics of whitewater kayaking. This is a 6-8 week class that usually finishes with a student organized whitewater trip. BOTTOM LINE…if you want to learn whitewater boating, the Stanford Kayak club provides the training, equipment, and a community of experienced boaters to learn and enjoy kayaking with. Please visit our website at www.stanford.edu/group/KayakClub for more information.

Outdoor Education Program

Wilderness Skills (GES 7a,b,c) is a sequence of outdoor education courses designed to introduce beginners (autumn and winter) and advanced outdoors-people (spring quarter) to backcountry living and prepare them to make scientific observations in the field. The courses will teach participants to live and travel safely, respectfully, and with open eyes while in the backcountry. The course will include weekly classes as well as four weekend outings. See www.stanford.edu/class/ges7/ for more info.

Powderbound

Powderbound is a student-run recreational snowboard and ski club whose purpose is to build community among snow enthusiasts at Stanford. The group rents a cabin in South Lake Tahoe where members can buy shares or pay guest fees to stay. Powderbound also offers specialized snow trips such as backcountry and beginner trips. Other perks of club membership include season pass deals at Kirkwood and Heavenly; discounted lessons, rentals and tuning; social events; and discounts on gear at local vendors. Powderbound focuses on communal development of snowboarding skill, from bunny slopes to backwoods trails; all skill levels and abilities are welcome. Please see www.powderbound.org for more information.

Redwood Outdoors Club

The Redwood Outdoor Club is a student run outdoor group at Stanford University. We plan backpacking and climbing trips during the school year, but also encourage people to plan their own trips. Our trips range from introduction to backpacking trips for novices to full-fledged mountineering expeditions. Trips are planned at the beginning of each quarter, and anyone who is interested is invited to these trip-leading meetings. Redwood also rents out climbing and backpacking gear. More info can be found at redwood.stanford.edu.

SOOP

The Stanford Outdoor Outreach Program (SOOP) was created to bring the outdoors to high schoolers who otherwise might not have the chance to experience it. We lead backpacking trips, in conjunction with teachers, for groups of amazing youth from East Palo Alto High School. We train leaders in fall quarter, teach students outdoor skills during winter and spring quarters, and then take students on a backpacking trip during spring quarter, to such places as Desolation Wilderness, Henry Coe State Park, and Pt. Reyes. If you are interested, send a message to majordomo@lists.stanford.edu with the message 'subscribe soop-group' in the body (not the subject line) For more infoormation, see soop.stanford.edu/ .

SPOT

Stanford Pre-Orientation Trips (SPOT) are 5 day backpacking trips for incoming Stanford students.  The trips take place the week before on-campus orientation in September and are intended to help participants adjust to life at Stanford.   SPOT trips are led by teams of current Stanford students or recent alumni; applications are available during winter quarter for trips the following fall.  Once selected, SPOT leaders participate in a training program which covers outdoor leadership, technical skills, first aid, and risk management.   This is a great opportunity to develop your leadership skills and help welcome new students to Stanford.  For more information, see www.stanford.edu/group/spot/ .

Windsurfing

The Stanford Windsurfing Club is student run group whose mission is to promote windsurfing at Stanford University. Our activities include windsurfing at local hotspots as well as teaching classes for beginners. The club also provides windsurfing equipment for members to use. See the web site, windsurf.stanford.edu.

For more info about Stanford Outdoors see http://mygroups.stanford.edu/search/ and Search for "outdoors" . The search can be done for any of the groups above, which will list a brief version of the charter and current officers. The search keys are: alpine, climbing, kayak, oep, powderbound, redwood, soop, spot, and windsurfing.

To add or update information on this page for any Outdoors group, please contact Clint Cummins. Last Updated: 11/11/08