Welcome to the web home of the University of Alberta Outdoors Club (UAOC), one of the university's largest clubs with over 200 members. Multi-day and day trips are organized on a monthly basis for club members by the club executive according to the interests of the club membership. Some of our trips are organized around a single activity such as canoeing, mountain biking, rock climbing, or backpacking while others allow members to do as they please in the great outdoors.
| Our highlight of the year is the New Year's Extravaganza where we take off some place warm for 10-14 days to enjoy mountain biking, hiking, rock climbing, and sun tanning.
|
This year's destination will be Santa Cruz Island and Malibu!. Check out our upcoming AGM and our mailing list for more information. Here are past destinations we have been to and satellite images of the campgrounds we stayed at:
As with our other trips, costs for the New Year's trip are extremely reasonable. Make sure to check out the pictures from this and other trips on our photos page. If you are outdoors oriented, or simply want to meet a great bunch of people, the UAOC is a great club to be a part of!
Membership is open to everyone whether you are a University student or not. |
An Accurate History of the Club
Had you been present at the birthing of such an extraordinary man as Ulrich Augustine Ogdensworth Coenwalh, you could scarcely have imagined that things would have turned out this way. Such a shining, virulent and inspiring example of humanity could have turned into a tyrant, a betrayer, a scheming, conniving, swashbuckling, gold-digging, mule-driving Scallywag! This fate was not seen in the bright youthful eyes of he who was to grow into the founder of our club; this club. |
| Born in 1887 to a poor 12th generation pig farming family in the war-torn outer provinces of the Germano-Britanic Empire, young Ulrich soon proved himself adept at many of the outdoor pastimes of the day: potato sack races, hobby-horse polo, extreme tiddlywinks, and of course... naked mountaineering. |
 |
The lure of fame and fortune brought him to London, Berlin, and eventually Edmonton in 1901, where he was rightfully Huzzah'd for his skills with a mangled sceptre and blueberry pies. He fell in with other like-minded youths in the Outdoor Enthusiasts Society of the Royal College of Lower Prince Rupert's Land Coalition (or the OESoTRCoLPRLC for short).  |
In 1903, Ulrich seized control of the club, and renamed it the UAOC in honour of his initials, but not before a lengthy legal battle with the Underwater Aquatic Overtaking of Crustaceans for the rights to the trademarked name "UAOC". Through a brilliantly masterminded series of bloodless club takeovers |
(all deaths were due to smothering only) and immensely profitable bake-sales, Ulrich built the UAOC into the shining society we think of today.
But, as the club grew, membership swelled, bringing in vast amounts of membership fees. Ulrich became greedy, ruthless and fattened and at one time was in possession of the worlds second largest showcase collection of Nalgene bottles. By 1928, the club was forced to overthrow his tyrannical reign and exiled him to the worst place on earth... The Ski Club. For 78 years he has sat, planning his revenge against the very club that still bears his initials to this day.
-Alex Eddington and Justin Smalley |
