About

The BOC organizes everything from local walks and bike rides to weekend backpacking, kayaking, skiing, and camping trips! Our longest adventures happen over fall and spring break, with recent destinations like the Adirondacks and the White Mountains. Popular trips include short walks and outdoor socials, plus subsidized ski trips each winter and whitewater rafting in spring.

If you'd like to lead your own trips, our gear room should be able to provide you with everything you need to properly suit up. Consider also joining our Friends of the BOC slack group or one of our general body meetings, for help planning your outings and to potentially meet other adventurers with similar tastes.

If you're drawn to the outdoors for community, challenge, or renewal, join our 4,200+ member mailing list of students, faculty, and staff. And then join a trip! With new trips announced and run nearly every week, journeying out and about with us couldn't be easier!

BOC members hiking a wooded trail

We, the Board of the Brown Outing Club, will abide by the following values, and use them as guiding principles for the short and long-term goals of the club (F.A.C.E.S.):

Fun

afford the Brown community with safe and enjoyable recreation and social interaction where participants can be themselves, take healthy risks, and find a change of pace from the campus environment;

Accessibility

acknowledge the myriad of barriers to outdoor recreation and facilitate access for Brown community members of all identities, backgrounds, experience levels, and financial circumstances;

Community

foster social interaction and interpersonal connection by encouraging collaboration and creating an inclusive, synergistic relationship between leaders and participants;

Experience

craft spaces in which leaders and participants can have meaningful interactions with themselves, their peers, and the surrounding environment;

Service

serve the Brown community by providing opportunities to get off campus and develop skills in a variety of outdoor pursuits; instill respect for natural places, a commitment to Leave No Trace ethics, and best practices for environmental stewardship.