Three members of the Boothbay Region High School Outing Club recently secured a grant from Teens To Trails, which will allow the group to take an overnight trip sometime in May.

These two members are freshmen Summer Chamberlin and Madison Gaudette, who were helped out by faculty adviser Chip Schwehm.

This is the third year Schwehm has been adviser for the club, but the club has been around for a while. It gives students at BRHS a chance to spend more time outdoors and explore the beauty Maine has to offer.

“It's a chance to be outside, hiking and stuff,” Maya Schwehm said.

“And we love having adventures,” added Kyle Alamo.

So far this school year the group has taken two trips, one to Angel Falls in the White Mountains of Franklin County, and climbing Baldpate Mountain in Oxford County. They are thinking about a snowshoe trip in March or April to go along with their overnight in May.

Climbing Baldpate was a 10 mile hike, which Schwehm said was “pretty rough” with the cold and ice on the mountain. But the kids made it and had a lot of fun during the climb.

“Climbing up a 3,000- to 4,000-foot mountain, you expect it to be cold up top,” Schwehm said.

Teens to Trails gives grants to many high school Outing Clubs around the state. According to its website, they support groups “that get teens active outdoors and reconnect them with nature.”

Besides spending time in nature and getting lots of exercise, the group has a ton of fun. They swam in the falls, which proved extremely cold according to Kyle Alamo. They posed for “falling off the mountain shots” at Baldpate, and married Karl Alamo to a pumpkin.

Well, actually it was a piece of wood that looked like a pumpkin, and he only pretended to marry it. But, as Gaudette said, she has pictures.

The outing club members include seniors Maya Schwehm, Kyle Alamo, Karl Alamo, and Zachary Vise; sophomores Chelsie Graves and Sawyer Alley, and freshmen Devyn Campbell, Summer Chamberlin and Madison Gaudette.