{"id":11418,"date":"2015-12-02T06:13:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=11418"},"modified":"2015-11-30T11:15:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T19:15:37","slug":"new-camosun-student-club-explores-outdoor-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/12\/02\/new-camosun-student-club-explores-outdoor-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"New Camosun student club explores outdoor adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new Camosun Outdoor Adventure Club may have started as just a class project, but third year Camosun Sport and Fitness Leadership student Sylvia Watkins has turned it into a functioning student club, taking her fellow students from the classroom to the fresh air for hikes and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to do something in the community,\u201d Watkins says of the class project, \u201cso I decided I wanted to make a Camosun Outdoor Adventure Club, because Camosun didn\u2019t really have a club like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Being a brand new Camosun club, attracting new members and generating a buzz is presently on the member\u2019s minds. Setting up a college student club is not an easy task, but everyone involved is excited for what the future brings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still trying to work out logistics,\u201d says Watkins, \u201cbut we\u2019re hoping to get some other things other than hiking coming up in the future, especially in the winter. Because there are different things you can do, like indoor rock climbing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun student Sylvia Watkins is taking students outdoors with the new Outdoor Adventure Club (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Club member Andrew McMillan, who is also a third-year Camosun Sport and Fitness Leadership student, loves being outdoors and jumped at Watkins\u2019 idea for a student group that takes part in these sorts of activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Sylvia came to us with the idea of doing it, it was exciting for me,\u201d he says. \u201cI grew up on a farm, so being outdoors is second nature to me. I\u2019m not from Victoria, so it\u2019s something that intrigued me, and it obviously intrigued a lot of other people, so it\u2019s been awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having a club with a diverse group of students could potentially pose problems for communication. But the club\u2019s group dynamics are going strong and are growing each time they meet, says McMillan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have some really down-to-earth people,\u201d he says. \u201cWe all sort of like the same things, so we\u2019re all pretty similar personality-wise, and pretty similar interest-wise as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Going out alone just doesn\u2019t cut it for McMillan anymore: he says going on adventures with other Camosun students beats adventuring solo any day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been awesome,\u201d he says. \u201cA lot of the stuff I can do on my own, but doing it with somebody else and doing it with other people in a group has been a lot of fun. You meet new people, and we have some exchange students that are involved, so it\u2019s been kind of neat to network with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking to join the club, finding them on Facebook is the best way to track them down; hopefully you can catch them when they\u2019re not embarking on an escapade in the great outdoors.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I wanted to go for a hike,\u201d says Watkins, \u201cI would post on the Facebook group saying, \u2018I want to hike Mount Finlayson today! Who wants to join me?\u2019 And we\u2019d just go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new Camosun Outdoor Adventure Club may have started as just a class project, but third year Camosun Sport and Fitness Leadership student Sylvia Watkins has turned it into a functioning student club, taking her fellow students from the classroom to the fresh air for hikes and more. \u201cWe had to do something in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-december-2-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11420,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11418\/revisions\/11420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}