On the Loose (abbreviated OTL) is an outing club for the undergraduate Claremont Colleges (5Cs), a consortium of five highly selective liberal arts colleges based in Claremont, California. It organizes trips to outdoor destinations around Southern California and the Western United States. The club was cited as a contributing factor to Pomona College's designation as a top college for hikers by Backpacker magazine. The history of outdoors activities at the Claremont Colleges dates back to the inception of its founding member, Pomona College, in the 1880s. In his 1914 history of the college, founding trustee Charles B. Sumner recalls the exploratory spirit of the college's earliest students, traveling to the "literal wilderness" of the Inland Empire to create an environment "like a party in the woods preparing for a camp". The March 1920 edition of the Pomona College Quarterly Magazine observed the following: More information...
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