The Bakpacking & Outdoors Club is a club designed to gather people together that enjoy the outdoors. We organize fun, low-cost trips that get students away from campus and the grind of college life. This club also educates people on the importance of low impact camping and doing our part to help the environment so that everyone can enjoy it.


Latest News/Announcements

Date Description
Nov-11-07

Mountain Top Removal

Just a reminder that this tuesday @ 7pm in Manitou 107 there is a lecture being put on by the SEC in regards to mountain top removal. I ugre everybody to attend this free lecture.


Event Details on GVSU Campus Events
GVSU Sustainable Home
Oct-20-07

Sustainability Week

This week at GVSU it is sustainability week. There will be plenty of events to educate and inform you on the latest in sustainability.


October 24-27th
Sustainability Week Schedule
Oct-20-07

Ravine Cleanup

Next weekend is the Ravine Cleanup. Everybody who can attend should attend. There will be free pizza for lunch and it will just be an awesome time helping cleanup the ravines behind GVSU. Spread the word and bring as many people as you can. If you would like to printout a flier to give to friends or to post around campus there is a download below. Put them up in dorm hallways, classrooms that you go to, hallways around campus, or whereever. Just get the word out any way you can.



Ravine Cleanup Flier(pdf)
Ravine Cleanup Flier(Uncropped Image)
Oct-16-07

Nobel Peace Prize

If you don't know already Al Gore won half of the Nobel Peace Prize with the IPCC:

"for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"

Nobel Peace Prize 2007
Sep-18-07

The 11th Hour

For those of you interested in seeing Leonardo Dicaprio's "The 11th Hour" you can see it at the Celebration Cinema in Woodland Mall. (Link).
Sep-17-07

Into the Wild

Just a friendly reminder that this friday Sean Penn's adaptation of John Krakauer's "Into the Wild" comes out to theatres soon. You can check out the website for the movie at

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http://www.intothewild.com
Sep-14-07

Old Electronics/Leno's Green Garage

Here's a good article on proactive ways to get rid of old electronics(Link). A popular mechanics article about Jay Leno's Green Garage. (Link)
Aug-28-07

Kilimanjaro Summit Attempt

In an article today in the Grand Rapids Press there is a Grand Rapids Man will be attempting to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro sometime in september. He is deaf and blind born with Usher's Syndrome that causes progressive loss of hearing and vision. (Grand Rapid Press Article) You can read his blog at heartheworld.org.
Nov-26-06

Andy Brown

Grand Rapids Press Article
Andy Brown, a graduate of GVSU completed a thru hike of the Pacific Crest Trail last month. He also completed a thru hike of the AT is 2004. You can check out his trail journal here.



Links Miscelaneuous
Backpacker.com
National Park Service
Campmor
REI
Pacific Crest Trail Association
Continental Divide Trail
Appalachian Trail Conference

GVSU Sustainability
GVSU GeoClub Facebook Page
GVSU Ultimate Frisbee Club
Want to read the clubs constitution? Download it below.
Constitution(pdf)

Don't know what to pack for a weekend trip? Download our checklist below.
Weekend Backpacking Checklist(.doc)

Do you have some really awesome photographs you took on one of the clubs trips that you want everybody to see? Email them to us and we will post them online.
Email Photos