RMC trips are opportunities to meet other members and to discover new places in the mountains, or to visit your old favorites. Led by volunteers, most trips are day hikes within driving distance of Randolph, and they take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays in July and August. Many new friendships have been formed on these trips, which bring together families, individual members, and hikers young and old. Some leaders with expertise to share have led “learning trips” with a focus on topics such as geology, forest ecology and local history or pre-history. To find out about upcoming trips, see the [calendar? News items in the blog page?]
To volunteer to lead a trip, contact the Trips Chair [link] or find them at the 4th of July Tea. Trip leaders are asked to follow RMC guidelines [link to download document], to adjust trip plans in response to weather conditions, and to take responsibility for all who join in the day.
The Gourmet Hike is a modest day hike with a special picnic lunch at the destination, usually a scenic viewpoint with room to picnic. Instead of packing your own trail lunch as usual, you can bring one delicious dish to share, and enjoy a mid-day buffet of others’ offerings. In the 1970s through the 1990s there was often great inventiveness in the menu (think: ice cream packed in popcorn) and significant numbers of participants, to the point that the RMC board scaled back the event to reduce its potential for environmental wear-and-tear. Today it continues as an early-August annual tradition, welcoming all who enjoy a wonderful lunch on a mountaintop. Who doesn’t?
[Close with a note to look for it on the calendar?] [or write a single closer for both Trips and Gourmet Hike]
Images: say four. Trips Special trips Gourmet hike
