Registration is currently CLOSED and will open June 4 @ 6pm.

From its inception, Women Outdoors has sponsored an annual Gathering for all members. In 2018, we moved from Sargent Center in NH, our home for over 20 years, to the Berkshire Outdoor Center (BOC). This year, with BOC still closed due to COVID, we will once again be back at Camp Scully, a rustic summer camp for kids situated on a beautiful lake near Albany, NY.

What do we mean by “Back to Basics”? There will be no staff, and we will be handling things and providing all services for ourselves, including activities, food service, meal cleanup, taking out trash as needed, etc. As we did for Gathering 41, we will be able to keep our operating costs much lower than recent years and will be passing the savings on to attendees by keeping fees as low as possible. In return, we will be asking everyone to pitch in with one or more tasks that best suits their interest and capabilities.

Join us for three or four wonderful days of fun, laughing and learning as we bring women together to sing and play, to make new friends and cherish their old ones, from all across the country. Whether you hike, bike, kayak, swim, gaze at the birds or at the stars, paint, play the ukulele or drum or you name it, sing, start campfires from scratch, scale walls, write or read, the Women Outdoors Gathering has something for almost everyone.

To keep costs down, we will not be hiring any staff. When you register, we'll ask how you can help make this a successful Gathering. 

Activities

• Lead a workshop
• Lead a hike or bike ride on/off campus (we will have maps and directions)
• Organize an evening activity - one of our traditional Dance or Game Night or something new.
• Note: we've already lined up organizers for the Talent Show

Food/Meals - Help out in the kitchen

• Supervise 2 or 3 kitchen meals (we will have instructions for each meal)
• For one or two meals - prep, setup
• For one or two meals - cleanup

Organizing

• Arrive a day early for setup (food shopping, put up signs, site review)
• Take a turn at the registration table 
• Organize our Silent Auction fundraiser (forms and instructions provided)
• Manage our Store
• Take-down and final clean-up sweep before we leave

Have Questions about:

Activities/Workshops: workshops@womenoutdoors.org

Kitchen or Organizing: gathering@womenoutdoors.org

Cancellation Policy - If you cancel:

• By Aug 1: Full refund 
• Aug 2 - Aug 10: $25 cancellation fee
• After Aug 10: No guaranteed refund

Camp Scully doesn’t provide meal service, but we have identified some great local caterers to provide some of our entrees, and Saturday we’ll be grilling out at the pavilion!

Meals will be served in the camp's dining hall or outside in the large outdoor pavilion. 

Meal Times:

Breakfast: 8 am 

Lunch: 12:30 pm 

Dinner: 6 pm 

Special Dietary Requests

We will ask during registration if you have any special dietary needs or allergies. Please register by Aug. 1 so that we can try to accommodate you! 

Note that you may need to bring food to supplement what we are able to provide. Storage is available for your perishables.

We recommend that all of our members get one of the COVID-19 vaccinations.

We will confirm and announce our COVID restrictions by July 21.

To reduce the risk of bringing Covid-19 to the Gathering, attendees are asked to be extra-careful during the two weeks before coming to Camp Scully. During that time:

• Please mask up when indoors with people outside of your family/household.
• We strongly recommend that you self-test prior to attending.
• Cancel your registration if you
• • are exposed to a person who has tested positive for COVID -OR-
  • you start experiencing COVID symptoms (headache, runny nose, sneezing, sore throat, or loss of smell).
  • You test positive for COVID.
• Note: You will receive a full refund if you need to cancel for the above COVID related reasons.
  

We will continue to track CDC and state recommendations between now and the Gathering and adjust our plans as needed. Most likely we will continue last year's policy of holding Gathering activities are being scheduled outside wherever possible (we are Women OUTDOORS, after all!).

It is possible that masks will be required during indoor activities if 6-foot distancing is not feasible.