For climbing, Utah cannot be beat. The climbing team is awesome, and the opportunities to climb outdoors are everywhere. If he wants more of a liberal arts experience, he could apply and likely get into the Honors program there that has smaller liberal arts type classes.

Another option - University of Denver - they have a mountain campus as well as their campus in Denver. Lots of kids that climb and do other outdoor activities.

It never gets mentioned on this board, but Maryville College in Tennessee.

Carleton

Anonymous wrote:University of Sewanee

https://new.sewanee.edu/campus-life/sewanee-outing-program/

Came here to say this.

UC Boulder.

University of Puget Sound in Washington state.

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Anonymous wrote:Davidson, Middlebury and Colorado College

Nothing particularly outdoorsy about Davidson. W&L has the most active outdoors club in the country and a beautiful location in the mountains. I know some kids at University of Denver and they spend a lot of time in the mountains. Colgate, Dartmouth and Cornell tend to attract outdoorsy kids.

Davidson has a lake campus and a very active outdoors program. Google is your friend.

I’m very familiar with it, the Davidson boosters will find a way to introduce it in every thread. It doesn’t belong among the many schools listed here with immediate access to the great outdoors, as opposed to a bedroom suburbs.

If the criteria is access to outdoors club, we could list half the colleges in the country.

I love how (for once) we have a specific OP who tells us their kid likes very specific outdoor activities: kayaking and rock climbing. You cannot do these things just anywhere. Hiking and cycling are great sports but OP's kid's interests are different.

This is like people wanting to know about college football teams and posters chime in about swimming.

The DMV is so full of know-it-all dorks it's incredible.

True, but the subject line says outdoorsy, broader than climbing and kayaking. Lots of people will see the subject, think of a school, and want to share it for the general public who aren’t set on two specific hobbies.

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Anonymous wrote:Davidson, Middlebury and Colorado College

Nothing particularly outdoorsy about Davidson. W&L has the most active outdoors club in the country and a beautiful location in the mountains. I know some kids at University of Denver and they spend a lot of time in the mountains. Colgate, Dartmouth and Cornell tend to attract outdoorsy kids.

Davidson has a lake campus and a very active outdoors program. Google is your friend.

I’m very familiar with it, the Davidson boosters will find a way to introduce it in every thread. It doesn’t belong among the many schools listed here with immediate access to the great outdoors, as opposed to a bedroom suburbs.

If the criteria is access to outdoors club, we could list half the colleges in the country.

I love how (for once) we have a specific OP who tells us their kid likes very specific outdoor activities: kayaking and rock climbing. You cannot do these things just anywhere. Hiking and cycling are great sports but OP's kid's interests are different.

This is like people wanting to know about college football teams and posters chime in about swimming.

The DMV is so full of know-it-all dorks it's incredible.

University of Vermont - keep up the grades, test well, and will likely get some merit aid

SUNY new Paltz
Agree with Paul Smith

Definitely Whitman

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Anonymous wrote:Beginning to think about a college list for my sophomore son, who loves kayaking and rock climbing but doesn't like traditional sports (either as a participant or spectator) and probably won't be interested in Greek life. He will likely want to major in some sort of quantitative social science. At this point, open to all size schools.

Davis and Elkins

For an A/A- student with top rigor taking calc BC as a junior?

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Anonymous wrote:Middlebury. I was there at Bread Loaf Writers Conference a few years ago and the surrounding fields and mountains are gorgeous. Lots of hiking. They had fires going in fireplaces in the some of the buildings in the early morning. An amazing place.

I went to Middlebury...a few years ago. I'm not a kayaker but I believe there is good kayaking nearby. VT climbing is not great. There is better climbing in the Adirondacks and NH.

Totally disagree about VT. The area is surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mtns. and the New River.

I think pp was abbreviating Vermont, not the school. I do think of Midd as a haven for outdoorsy kids -- and doesn't it have its own ski mountain still?

The Snow Bowl! Yes!

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Anonymous wrote:Davidson, Middlebury and Colorado College

Nothing particularly outdoorsy about Davidson. W&L has the most active outdoors club in the country and a beautiful location in the mountains. I know some kids at University of Denver and they spend a lot of time in the mountains. Colgate, Dartmouth and Cornell tend to attract outdoorsy kids.

Davidson has a lake campus and a very active outdoors program. Google is your friend.

I’m very familiar with it, the Davidson boosters will find a way to introduce it in every thread. It doesn’t belong among the many schools listed here with immediate access to the great outdoors, as opposed to a bedroom suburbs.

If the criteria is access to outdoors club, we could list half the colleges in the country.

Washington & Lee.

https://www.wlu.edu/campus-life/activities/recreation-and-fitness/the-outing-club/

They have a 5 day Appalachian Trail hike as part of their freshman orientation program.

They are greek heavy but there is a frat for everyone if they want to join. It’s more laid back than the stereotypical fratty schools. The Outing club is also a very close knit group.