Dartmouth Outing notes centennial
Posted January 31, 2009 10:00 pm
HANOVER, N.H. - The Dartmouth Outing Club is celebrating its 100th anniversary during Dartmouth's annual Winter Carnival on Feb. 13-15.
The free event is open to all, not just students.
The carnival will include a polar bear swim, ice skating, maple-syrup covered snow cones, sleigh rides and a human dogsled race, in which humans harnessed to sleds pull other people.
The Dartmouth Outing Club was founded in 1909 by a Dartmouth student to "stimulate interest in out-of-door winter sports." A winter field day was held in 1910, with snowshoeing and cross-country skiing, and the first carnival was held in 1911.