What is this?

Winter sports are fun, but they often carry more risks than 3-season activities. To help the MITOC community stay safe in cold wintry conditions, we run safety lectures to help prepare people for the risks they'll face outside. Normally this is only run as part of winter school in January, but we're hoping to help new active members of MITOC get a foothold in winter activities in November and December as they become available (before safety lectures run again in January).

Prerequisites

No real prerequisites other than being free to show up :-). There is no fitness or prior skill requirement!

Where and when?

This lecture will take place on campus in room 3-270 from 10:30am to 3:00pm on Sunday November 3rd.

Is this mandatory?

In order to participate with MITOC during winter conditions (which is often well into spring for the higher summits), you must have attended a delivery of the winter safety lectures. The "trip" will be broken into 2 parts: lecture and then a short quiz. You must attend the lecture and pass the quiz at the end.

Topics covered

• MITOC policies
• Clothing
• Basic gear
• Hiking
• Traction
• Gear rentals
• Weather
• and more!

TL;DR:

You need to have attended winter safety lectures to do outside winter activities with MITOC. If you haven't attended the winter safety lectures before, this is your opportunity!