Outdoor Leadership
Hamilton Outing Club
The Hamilton Outing Club (HOC) is the largest club on campus. We are Hamilton’s home for outdoor leadership. We offer equipment rentals, trip leader training, and advanced instructor courses.
Climbing Wall
Located in the Charlene and Wayland Blood Fitness Center, the 3,000 square foot, state-of-the-art climbing facility offers top rope and lead climbing, as well as a bouldering area.
Adirondack Adventure
Adirondack Adventure is Hamilton College’s nationally acclaimed outdoor orientation program for incoming students.
Student Stories
Adirondack Adventure Alumni: Bringing that ‘Big Andrew Energy’
Thirty-three trips into the wilderness, 68 student leaders, 287 student participants. Plus dozens of canoes, tents, sleeping bags, rain gear, pounds of cheese, and other essentials. The planning that goes into Hamilton’s Adirondack Adventure (AA) orientation program is extensive, and the process has run like a proverbial well-oiled machine for the past four decades thanks in large part to Director of Outdoor Leadership Andrew Jillings, who came on board in 1997 to expand the program from a modest six trips.
Spring Break - From Near and Far
Hamilton students kept busy during spring break, exploring their passions at places far and near. Eighteen seniors traveled to Nepal to trek the Himalayas; the College Choir toured Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and West Virginia, where they performed with other college singers; Alternate Spring Break groups did volunteer work in Kentucky, Delaware, North Carolina, and Syracuse, N.Y. Athletic teams competed in the NCCAs and during trips to Florida, and the Curling team made it to nationals.
Contact
Andrew Jillings
Director of Outdoor Leadership
