Registration is Closed

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.

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 our meals!

Meals will be served in the camp's dining hall. 

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 July 31 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.

Based on current information about Covid-19 and its variants, Gathering attendees will be required to

• be fully vaccinated at least 2 weeks or more prior to the Gathering. We strongly recommend that you also have received at least on booster shot.
• have a negative COVID rapid test within 48 hours of arrival to Camp Scully. Accepted tests are PCR Laboratory, Rapid Antigen, or at-home self-test kits. At-home tests can be ordered from https://www.covid.gov/tests

In addition, 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.
• 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.
  

*Use of masks during your stay at the Gathering is optional.

*Wherever possible, we will continue to schedule activities outside (we are Women OUTDOORS, after all!)

***If a potential attendee has a MEDICAL reason that they cannot be vaccinated, please contact Paris Horan at parishoran@yahoo.com with subject line: cannot vaccinate. Special accommodations (testing and masking) will be discussed and implemented.