8:00 am – 12:00 pm Check-in
8:00 am – 3:00 pm Participants move in to their permanent residence halls for their first year at F&M, free time, lunch on their own
3:30 – 4:15 pm Convocation for PIT and FOOT participants and parents
4:15 – 4:30 pm Goodbye to parents
4:30 – 10:00 pm FOOT Begins: Dinner, group and individual gear checks and distribution, food distribution, LNT presentation, games
8:00 am -9:00 am Meet at the Wohlsen Center, breakfast and last gear checks and distribution of last food items.
9:00 am – 11:00 am Drive to Pine Grove Forest State Park (PGFSP), early lunch
12:00 pm HIT THE TRAIL.
12:00 – 3:30 pm Hike to Tom’s Run Shelter
3:30 – 5:00 pm Games, relaxing in camp, stretching
5:00 – 6:00 pm Make dinner
9:30 Debrief of the day, bed
6:30 – 7:30 am Wake up, have breakfast, pack up camp
8:00 am Hit the trail 13.7 miles to Quarry Gap Shelter
5:00 – 6:00 pm Make dinner
9:30 Debrief of the day, bed
6:30 – 7:30 am Wake up, have breakfast, pack up camp
8:00 am Hit the trail 12.2 miles to Tumbling Run Shelter
5:00 – 6:00 pm Make dinner
9:30 Debrief of the day, bed
6:30 – 7:30 am Wake up, have breakfast, pack up camp
8:00 am Hit the trail 8 miles to Pen Mar Park
1:00 pm (at latest) meet up with van & drive back to F&M, stop on the way for late lunch/dinner/caloric reward for all of our hard work!
4:00 pm (at latest) back to F&M
First-Year Orientation Begins