Drawing of the future cabin

Camelot Bunkhouse Fundraising

A core part of the MITOC community, and in particular our access to the mountains, continues to be our well-loved "Camelot" cabin, located in central New Hampshire. As you may know, Camelot was built in the 1970s (on a shoestring budget), and it is nearing the end of its useful life. Since 2013, the Outing Club has been working to build new, safe and modern sleeping quarters on the Camelot property, which will ensure that MITOC can fulfill our mission for decades to come.

MITOC partnered with Maclay Architects to design a new bunkhouse for Camelot which will be located approximately 100m from the existing cabin. The new bunkhouse will contain five bedrooms (sleeping ten persons each), a large central hallway, and a covered deck. We anticipate the cost of the new bunkhouse to be approximately $500,000.

With the design now complete, we are actively seeking donations. If you are able, please consider donating to help us hit our fundraising target. We broke ground on site preparation in 2024, and fundraising permitting, we will complete the new bunkhouse in 2027. This project will ensure we can fulfill our mission for the next generation of MITOCers.

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M.I.T. Party Scales Cliff

Outing Club Expedition Climbs Difficult Pinnacle

The Tech, Vol. 58, No. 36, page 3 · October 14, 1938

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Five hundred feet of raw cliff bowed to six Tech men last week end, when members of the Outing Club scaled the rocky heights of “The Pinnacle” located near Huntington Ravine in the White Mountain Range. Another party climbed Mt. Washington at the same time.

“The Pinnacle” has been the goal of many another climbing party, but it was Professor William D. Allis of the Physics Department who first laid out the route to the top. Members of the Outing Club, under whose auspices the expedition was held, were divided into two parties, one to climb the Pinnacle, and the other to scale the heights of Mt. Washington. The Pinnacle party itself was divided into two groups of three men each, one under the direction of Al Sargent, ‘39, and the other under the direction of Ken Davis, ‘41. The party was seriously impeded in a number of places by trees blown over the trail by the recent hurricane, so the night was spent by four of the men in a shelter near Hermit Lake by Intervale.

Summit Covered by Clouds and Ice

The Party that scaled the heights of Mt. Washington, according to John D. Detlefson, ‘39, reported that the summit was obscured by clouds and partially covered with ice and frost.

The Outing Club has extensive plans for the next weekend. There will be a freshman canoe trip this Saturday in conjunction with the Radcliffe Outing Club. All interested freshmen are urged to sign up on the bulletin board in the Main Lobby before Saturday.

This Sunday a practice rock climbing expedition will scale some of the hills at Rattlesnake Cliff in the Blue Hills, with Al Sargent ‘39, in charge.

Plans are in progress to provide activities for the members on every weekend this term.