Nathan Lambrecht David Wiese, an Aerospace Engineering freshman, looks for his next hand hold at Reimer's Ranch on February 17, 2001. UT''s Outdoor Adventure provides rockclimbing trips several times a semester as well as packbacking, kayaking, and caving trips. Hang around Gregory Gym Rm. Eager fingers are magnetically drawn to filing cabinets teaming with national park information.
Eyes delve into adventure books and magazines.
If so compelled, you might even find yourself signing up to shimmy through one of Austin's aquifer-hollowed caves, or forking over some cash to paddle down the rapids of Big Bend's Boquillas Canyon. And he's right. The semester's catalogue with a complete trip listing and further details about each trip can be attained in the Outdoor Adventure Center. Nicole Olmed, Outdoor Adventure Program Coordinator, sits in an office lined with maps and travel posters, planning excursions. Then all of the sudden Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France and it's cycling.