This Budget has been reviewed by:

E-Board Representative:__________________________________Date:_________

Please list all club officers and their contact information.

Title	Name	Email	Phone #
President	Neil Grabowky	grabon	276-7265
Vice-President	James Adams	adamj3	273-5759
Equipment Chair	Tim Harren	harret	276-7265
Treasurer	Joan Gitnick	gitnij	273-2684
Secretary	Abe Stephens	stepha	273-4843
Cairn Editor	Matt Filippelli	Filipm	273-5759
Member-At-Large	Stoddard Panall	panals	276-7964
Activity Chairs:
Canoeing	Tim Harren	Harret	276-7265
Caving	Joan Gitnick	gitnij	273-2684
Cross-Country Skiing	Cynthia Cacy	cacyc
Ice Climbing	Abe Stephens	stepha	273-4843
Kayaking	Aaron Dulgar	dulgar	237-0324
Rafting	Collin Hitchcock	hitchc	271-8133
Rock Climbing	Neil Grabowky	grabon	276-7596
Winter Mountaineering	Keith Langenwalter	langek	272-6883
First Aid	Rebecca Wilday	wildar	273-2684

Please list your membership history for the past 3 years, and your membership projection for the next fiscal year.

Year	Total	Student	Fac/Staff	Alumni
1998-1999	236	229	2	6
1999-2000	202	191	1	6
2000-2001	222	213	0	9
2001-2002	210	200	1	9

The purposes of the Rensselaer Outing Club shall be:

1.) To further outing activities among the students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute by:

1. Organizing and conducting hiking, camping, kayaking, canoeing, skiing, mountaineering, ice climbing, rock climbing, snowshoeing, cave exploring, rafting or other similar trips;
2. Creating school interest in the principles of conservation of natural resources;
3. Instructing its members in first aid, correct camping customs, and forest fire prevention.

2.) In general, to do all things necessary and proper to carry out the above purposes, with proper concern for safety, subject to such limitations as may be provided by law or the Rensselaer Union.

Goal B: Every year the ROC sponsors an Intercollegiate Outing Club Association (IOCA) event held in late September or Early October on Turtle Island on Lake George, our annual Fall Lake George Celebration. This trip is a long-standing RPI tradition that begins on Friday when we transport the gear to the Island by powerboat and ending on Sunday when everyone leaves. Because this is a long-standing tradition we send flyers to other schools as well as IOCA alumni. Because of the amount of required equipment that needs to be transported from RPI we rent a trailer as well as two powerboats. People are transported two the island either by powerboat or by canoe. The use of a second powerboat allows us to transport a greater number of people to the island and to transport the gear within a reasonable amount of time. This also allows provides us with a backup method of transportation in case of an emergency with one of the powerboats. Several traditions of this weekend are providing meals and the square dance Saturday night. This requires us to hire square dance callers and transport them to and from the island. During the course of the weekend power is provided for all lights and equipment by a generator that is rented and transported to the island for this purpose. Last year the Park service increased the length of their season requiring everyone to pay for the campsites that we use during the weekend. This increase in fees will be passed on to the participants through higher IOCA fees to account for this change.

Goal D: Replace worn out equipment, repair damaged equipment, and acquire new equipment to allow safe participation in club activities.

Program 1) Canoeing: Each year we try and replace the worn out equipment and the equipment that has been lost over previous years. Lifejackets are especially important because they are used for canoeing, kayaking as well as rafting. The paddles are used for both rafting and canoeing, and typically several are lost or broken over the course of a year. As canoes age the amount of repair needed in order to maintain them increases. Currently many of our canoes are in need of minor repairs that we have deemed necessary to keep them afloat. Drybags allow us to bring equipment on ‘wet’ trips that must be kept dry, such as first aid kits.

Program 2) Caving: The Caving program at RPI relies on the use of carbide lamps to provide safe and effective light during trips. Carbide lamps rely on the use of Carbide fuel, which can only be purchased in 100 lbs drums. Currently the Club’s supply of Carbide is running low and we would like to purchase more. Another important issue is increasing the safety of the club’s vertical caving gear. Recently new technology has come out that drastically increases safety while ascending by ensuring that ascenders are firmly attached to one’s foot. The purchase of these foot loops for each pair of ascenders would increase the safety of our vertical equipment. Due to the frequency of use both our ascenders and our lamps need regular maintenance.

Program 3) Ice Climbing: Ice Climbing has become more popular among club members in the last couple of years. As a result of this some of our older equipment has worn out and had to be retired from inventory. In the last year two pairs of Plastic boots were removed from inventory due to cracks and other problems. In order to accommodate the demand we need to replace these boots with ones of a similar size. Currently we don’t have enough crampons to accommodate everyone who wishes to climb, a new pairs of technical crampons would allow more people on each trip since the cold conditions and conditions of use don’t allow sharing of gear. A Dry rope is essential to Ice Climbing because the friction between the ice face and the rope melts the ice, which can later freeze into the rope. A dry rope eliminates the risk of ice attaching itself to the rope. Due to the amount of interest in ice climbing four set-ups are used on each club trip, however the club only has enough technical ice axes for three set-ups. Theses axes must be shared between the various set-ups.

Program 4) Kayaking: Several of the club neoprene spray skirts are unsuitable for river conditions, having gaping holes or other problems because of this we have more kayaks then useable neoprene skirts. We also have lost several paddles over the course of the last year due to breakage as a result of regular use. Since each kayak requires a spray skirt and a paddle to be useful we would like to purchase enough skirts and paddles to match one to each boat. Drysuits also need constant repair and are in constant use since the water is typically cold. These suits are used for rafting, canoeing and kayaking and keep participants warm. This year we had to retire several drysuits leaving the club with a shortage due to the demand for them. Neoprene booties are important in keeping participants feet warm and safe when submersed in water. The neoprene also protects feet from sharp rocks or sticks that can be a part of the river bottom. The club would like to maintain the number of kayaks in our fleet however as kayaks age the plastic thins creating a greater propensity for bending and cracking. The club’s older boats also have smaller cockpits, which make them harder to exit on the river then newer kayaks. The plastic on the bottom of one of our older boats is wearing thin we would like to replace this kayak.

Program 5) Climbing Wall: The Club maintains and operates an indoor climbing wall for any RPI student or associate to use. We have been slowly purchasing holds for the wall since its completion. The wall needs additional holds to allow climbers to use all of the facilities.

Program 6) Rock Climbing: Both the Dynamic Ropes and the Climbing shoes get heavy use each year. Both are used for Rock-Climbing, as well as in the Climbing Wall for public use. For safety purposes old ropes must be retired when they show signs of wear. We currently lack larger sizes of shoes and often have to turn people away from the wall or allow them to climb in their bare feet. The new shoes would be used to replace the pairs of shoes that are falling apart and to purchase larger sizes. Many of the old locking carabiners have been retired in the last year leaving the club with a greater demand that supply. Due to safety reasons each rope on a rock-climbing trip requires between 2 and 4 carabiners. These carabiners are also used for Ice Climbing as well as vertical caving. Currently we do not have enough harnesses for both climbers and belayers. Because harnesses are essential to climbing we would like to increase the number of functional harnesses the club has. Rock Climbing helmets have a maximum life expectancy of 10 years according to safety regulations. Currently many of the helmets were purchased over 10 years ago and also lack many modern safety features. We would like to replace these older helmets.

Program 7) Winter Mountaineering: Currently most of the Club’s hiking crampons are old style army crampons, which have a propensity to break during use. The club would like to slowly retire these old crampons and replace them with newer style crampons, which are considered easier to use and more durable. Similarly during winter months all of the club’s reliable snowshoes are always in use. We would like to purchase a new pair to increase the number that can be used by members. Finally as our older 4-season sleeping bags loose their loft they decrease their temperature range and cannot be used in colder temperatures changing their designation from a four season sleeping bag to a three season sleeping bag.

Program 8) Cross-country Skiing: Kick wax, corks, wax remover and pole glue is necessary for the yearly maintenance and everyday use of the cross-country skis. The club also has a number of skis with the old style 3-pin bindings. The club has decided to try and convert all its skis to the new NNN style bindings since the 3-pin style binding require more force to release creating a greater propensity for injuries. Typically ski have a much longer lifespan then the bindings and as the binding wear out we would like to convert all our ski’s to NNN. Since the club is in the process of converting all of our skis to NNN style bindings we currently have more skis then boots with the old style bindings. Also the boots that match the old style bindings are falling apart and many have no insulation left. We would like to convert some of the old style skis to new style NNN bindings and buy a new pair of boots to account for the increase in the number of Skis of that style.

Program 9) Rafting: This year one of our rafts suffered a catastrophic failure that has been deemed irreparable after considerable effort was made to fix the raft. The raft tore along one of the seems and burst 4 air compartments. The raft, which failed, was the club’s largest raft, could seat 7 people and was over 10 years old. During the first two months of the school year a rafting trip was taken every weekend and all were filled to capacity. Even before we lost the use of a raft the club had to turn away people due to the limited space. The loss of the raft was unexpected and we would like to replace the raft with one of a similar build in order to accommodate demand on trips. One of the other problems that occurs on rafting trips is lack of helmets. We would like to purchase enough helmets to provide for the new raft. Currently we only have one working pump. A second pump would decrease the amount of time required to pump up the rafts and would provide a second pump in case of emergencies while on the river. Each pump requires adapters, which are small and can be easily lost; we would like to purchase a number of these.

Program 10) First Aid: We year we are planning on standardizing our first aid kits ensuring that every trip has the medical supplies necessary to deal with a full spectrum of medical emergencies. Some of our kits are closer to the desired standard than others and we would like to bring them all up to the optimal level to ensure the safety of our members on all trips.

Club Inventory List must be complete in order for your final budget to be reviewed.

Item	Quantity	Condition	Total Value
Canoeing
Canoes	5	Good: 5	3,500
Personal Floatation Devices	40	New: 5 Good: 18 Fair: 9 Poor: 8	850
Canoe Paddles	28	New: 2 Good: 18 Fair: 2 Poor: 6	260
Canoe Poles	2	Fair: 2	10
Tie Down Straps	10	Good: 10	15
Canoe Pads	5	Good: 5	24
Canoe/Ski Racks	6	Fair: 6	200
Yakima Rack Clips	10	Fair: 10	170
Canoe Center Air Bags	4	Good: 1 Poor: 3	100
Canoe End Air Bags	10	Good: 2 Fair: 2 Poor: 6	180
Caving
Caving Lamp Tops	15	Fair: 9 Poor: 6	230
Caving Lamp Bottoms	17	Fair: 13 Poor: 5	235
Good Carbide	25lbs	Good	25
Cave Packs	4	Good:2 Poor: 2	50
Assorted Cave Lamp Repair		Good	20
Rope Bags	3	Good: 2 Fair: 1	20
Rope I.D. Tape	1	Good	5
Static Caving Ropes	3	Good: 3	200
Caving Rappel Racks	17	Good: 17	170
Chest Harnesses	7	New: 2 Good: 1 Fair: 1 Poor: 3	130
Ascenders (Pairs)	7	New: 1 Good: 6	170
Gibbs Ascenders (Pairs)	2	Fair: 2	130
Locking Carabiners (Steel)	5	Good 5	50
Locking Carabiners (Al)	5	Good: 5	50
Electric Cave Lights	5	Good: 5	70
1" Tube Webbing (caving)	50’	Fair	20
Belay Devices	2	Good: 2	30
Carpets (for VTS)	10	Fair: 10	30
Caving Helmets	20	Good: 15 Fair: 5 Poor: 7	400
Ice Climbing
Ice Hammer/Axes (Pairs)	4	New: 1 Good: 2	600
Plastic Ice Boots	6	New: 1 Fair: 4 Poor: 1	1,000
Technical Crampons	6	New: 2 Good: 3 Fair:1	150
Snow Shovel	1	Good: 1	20
Kayaking
Kayaks	8	New: 2 Good: 4 Fair: 1 Poor: 1	3,250
Throw Bags	5	Good: 5	105
Kayak Paddles	8	New:2 Fair: 4 Poor: 2	650
Dry Suits	7	New: 1 Good: 2 Fair: 2 Poor: 2	740
Wet Suit Booties	4	Good: 1 Fair: 1 Poor: 2	57
Wet Suit Gloves	11	Good: 6 Fair: 2 Poor: 3	70
Wet Suit Top	3	Poor: 3	50
River (Neoprene) Spray Skirts	7	New: 1 Good: 4 Poor: 2	325
Pool (Nylon) Spray Skirts	10	New: 2 Good: 2 Fair: 4 Poor: 2	250
Dry Bags	4	New: 1 Poor: 3	40
Kayak Air Bags	15	Good: 9 Fair: 5 Poor: 1	120
Rafting
Whitewater Rafts	2	Good: 2	3000
Raft Pumps	2	Fair: 1 Poor: 1	20
Kayak/Raft Helmets	13	Good: 9 Fair: 3 Poor: 1	350
Rock Climbing
Dynamic Climbing Rope	5	New: 1 Good: 2 Poor: 2	420
Climbing Helmets	10	fair: 10	475
1" Tube Webbing (Rock Climbing)	80’	Good	50
Rock Climbing Shoes	12	New: 2 Good: 2 Fair: 5 Poor: 3	380
Belay Devices	5	Good: 3 Fair: 2	75
Harnesses	5	Good: 5	200
Winter Mountaineering
Four Season Sleeping Bags	9	Good: 2 Fair: 5 Poor: 2	900
Three Season Sleeping Bags	25	Good: 1 Fair: 17 Poor: 7	1100
Sleeping Pads	20	Fair: 20	120
Crampons	6	Poor: 6	200
One-Burner Stoves	7	Good: 1 Fair: 1 Poor: 5	175
Fuel Bottles	12	Good: 4 Fair: 8	60
Two Burner Stoves	2	Poor: 2	35
Coleman Lanterns	3	Fair: 2 Poor: 1	45
External Frame Packs	16	New: 1 Fair: 1 Poor: 14	500
Day Packs	13	Fair: 5 Poor: 8	600
Internal Frame Packs	7	Good: 1 Fair: 1 Poor: 5	600
Mouse Boots	35	Fair: 30 Poor: 5	950
Mountaineering Ice Axes	12	New: 1 Good: 1 Fair: 6 Poor: 4	500
Snow Shoes	14	Good: 5 Fair: 9	1,000
Stuff Sacks	31	Good: 12 Fair: 6 Poor: 13	150
Compasses	10	Good: 10	50
Four Season Tents	4	Good: 2 Fair: 1 Poor: 1	1,200
Three Season Tents	12	Good: 3 Fair: 3 Poor: 7	1,200
Bivouac Sacks	4	Good: 1 Fair: 2 Poor: 1	500
Tarps	10	Good: 10	30
Topographic Maps	115	Poor-Good	100
First Aid
Plastic First Aid Kits	4	Good: 3 Fair: 1	200
Soft First Aid Kits	3	Good: 3	30
Fall Lake George
Pots	13	Fair: 13	100
Lids	5	Fair: 5	10
Pans/Trays	9	Fair: 9	45
Plastic Trays	5	Fair: 5	40
Lights	6	Fair: 6	30
Styrofoam Coolers	4	Fair: 4	10
5 Gal. Water Jugs	9	Fair: 9	27
Griddles	3	Fair: 3	40
25’ Lamp Extensions	4	Fair: 4	20
Flood Light Bulbs	6	Good: 6	18
Assorted Paper goods and Nonperishable Food Items		New	15
Tarps and stakes	8	Good: 8	50
Light Bulbs	60	Good: 8	15
Emergency Flashers	7	Fair: 7	21
Marine map of Lake George	1	Good: 1	10
Skiing
Cross Country Skis	30	Good: 5 Fair: 20 Poor: 5	3,500
Telemark Boots	6	fair: 6	500
Cross Country Ski Boots	44	Good: 17 Fair: 12 Poor: 16	1,700
Cross Country Ski Poles	66	Good: 66	400
Climbing Skins	7	Good: 4 Fair: 3	40
Wax		Good	20
The Pit
Pit Tools		Good	300
Books (Library)		Fair-New	300
Pit Furniture		Fair	500
Climbing Wall
Wood and hardware		Good	1500
Climbing Holds	100	Good	600
Anchor hardware		Good	400
Runners	10	Good	30
Tools		Good	50
Padding		Good	400
		TOTAL	$40,527