DARTMOUTH COLLEGE OUT O'DOORS OUTDOOR CLUB ANNUAL REPORT BROCHURE 1964 VINTAGE For Sale

This is a multi-page historical artifact of Dartmouth Out O’Doors, a student-edited promotional and informational booklet published by the Dartmouth Outing Club (D.O.C.) at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Measures 9 X 12 inches in size (23 X 30cm) and is 23 pages in length.Based on references to the '64 Winter Olympics and plans for the upcoming '64-'65 season, this specific edition was produced in 1964 under the editorship of John Alden Thayer with photography by Adrian Bouchard.The provided pages from this edition document the following club information:📔 Introductory & Cover Material

• Cover: Features a black-and-white photograph of a skier looking out across a snow-covered mountain valley from a ridge, with the title stylized in all-lowercase lettering.
• Table of Contents (Page 5): Establishes a comprehensive breakdown of the club's winter branches, activities, and special events (such as the Freshman Trip and Woodsmen's Weekend). It features a dedicated quote about the educational value of the North Country by President Emeritus Ernest Martin Hopkins.
• Introduction (Page 4): A welcome letter urging incoming freshmen and underclassmen to join the D.O.C. to find mental clarity and an escape from the rigor of the college's fast-paced trimester system.

🎿 Winter Sports & The Ski School

• The New Winter Sports (Pages 16–17): Outlines structural updates for the 1964–65 winter term under a centralized Winter Sports directorate. It highlights The Dartmouth Ski Team coached by Al Merrill (noting his recent role as a U.S.A. Nordic team coach at the 1964 Winter Olympics).
• Ski Jottings & The D.O.C. Ski School (Page 15): Explains that skiing activities encompass about one-third of the undergraduate student body. The D.O.C. Ski School, directed by George Ostler, utilizes three local ski areas: Oak Hill, the golf course, and the Dartmouth Skiway.

🪵 Cabin and Trail & Sub-Clubs

• Cabin and Trail (Pages 8–9): Features narrative anecdotes about student life and grueling physical labor, such as building a log cabin from scratch at the College Grant during spring break, and hiking out to remote locations like Gile Forest and the Smarts Mountain Trail to maintain the D.O.C.'s 120-mile chain of 12 cabins.
• Bait and Bullet (Page 20): Introduces the hunting and fishing arm of the club, describing opportunities for tracking White-Tail deer near the Canadian border, seasonal woodchuck shooting, fly-fishing for trout, and winter planning for wild boar hunts.
• Ledyard Canoe Club (Page 21): Promotes the college's historic paddling organization. It describes their signature 5-day, 172-mile spring canoe trip down the Connecticut River to the Long Island Sound following the route of John Ledyard, alongside the recent addition of a fiberglass kayak-building program.