Viking_Yearbook_66

t.f . l& :.o{" 4 I#-, ;ry,:l s#T The Outdoor Program, which takes all comers, so far has attracted men and women in about a 6O-4O ratio. Classroom and field instruction emphasize techniques of outdoor living and skills. So far it has fielded day trips up the Columbia Corge and weekends of climbing and hiking. Several summer trips are scheduled to Three Sisters area in Central Oregon, the Olympic Range in Washington, the Coat Rocks Wild Area, and Timberline Trail around Mt. Hood. Future plans for McKinney and the newly formed Outdoor Recreation Board, under chairmanship of Ceorge Selfridge, see Port- land State with its resident student body and its location in the heart of the Northwest mountain-river-seashore recreation Iand, as the ideal college for an expanded year'round outdoor operation. ln the planning is a PSC Coastline Traii from Astoria to the California border, paralleling the Skyline Trail along the backbone of the Cascade Range. And in summer'67 ? A hiking, camping Eur- opean tour. iir.:,i.;{:l'l *'*,4, , "'"*f. ,..r f r ,8"'r"S I .4 e '!.itl