GUIDE TO THE OUT O’ DOORS

WHILE TAKING IN the sun outside the Hopkins Center one spring day, Frazier Miller and Jamie Rosen, both '92s, realized there was no comprehensive source of information for students (or alumni for that matter) that would show them how to get around the great outdoors in the great state of New Hampshire. There was no complete source for what is one of Dartmouth's main attractions. Yet.

After a year or so of finagling with word processors and plenty of help from knowledgeable alums, Rosen and Miller have finally produced the Dartmouth Outing Guide, or "DOG" as they affectionately call their pet project.

The two got a baker's dozen of alumni to take on individual chapters, compiling a comprehensive guide to outdoor activities from road biking to backcountry skiing.

The 400-page volume sells for $10 and is designed to fit nicely in the typically cramped hiker's backpack without adding much weight. Its treatment of Hanover's near (and some not so near) environs is mottled with nuggets of humor, advice, and naturalist philosophy.

Caught just before he left to lead a freshman trip, Miller told the Alumni Magazine, "Even after green eggs and ham, old Doc Benton, and all the other Moosilauke stuff, most people never fulfill their promises to return."

Rosen and Miller set out to change that. "As our lives become flooded with exams, athletic practices, and those hip-hoppin', beerslingin' parties, it is easy to lose touch with the wilderness that surrounds us," the two noted in their foreward to DOG. "Dartmouth's wild surroundings provide a rare locale in which a wide variety of outdoor activities may be enjoyed. And yet, with all the studies and diversions that the College provides, some are able to go four years without ever setting foot on a trail."