Pre-Orientation Backpacking Trip - 2012

Here are the (mostly real) bios of 2012's leaders:

Name: Chris Gage
Major: Freaking out about getting Pre-O organized
Year: 2013
Hometown: Wait, there are places besides Harvey Mudd?!?
Hiking Experience: In terms of pairs of boots worn out: 3
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: I thought it was a free trip to South Africa
Random Fact: Guess which of the entries below I had to make up!
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Sleep.

Name: Sarah Lichtman
Major: Engineering
Year: 2014 (I survived core!)
Hometown: Midland, Michigan
Hiking Experience: Day hikes around Southern California, backpacking on Pre-O last two years, spring break at Big Sur.
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: Well, someone needs to eat the burnt parts on the bottom of the pots!
Random Fact: I play the ukulele.
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Burnt mashed potatoes.

Name: Jon Schwartz
Major: Building Stuff
Year: 2013
Hometown: New York City
Hiking Experience: Does the man hike on the path, or does the path hike on the man?
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: WHY NOT???????
Random Fact: I make my frosh race to the end
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Small children

Name: Ryland Miller
Major: Engineering
Year: 2015
Hometown: Manhattan Beach, CA
Hiking Experience: ~800 miles of backpacking.
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: What's better than swimming in freezing lakes every day?
Random Fact: Freeze-dried eggs and bacon are good. Don't listen to what anyone else says.
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Trix, before everyone else liked them.

Name: Elsie Gibson
Major: Chemistry
Year: 2015 (we'll see)
Hometown: A-town (aka DC)
Hiking Experience: Lots of sunburns.
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: Backpacking is fun!
Random Fact: Ha. You thought you would be clever and look at the source code. Blacked out so I(Chris) don't get in trouble.
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Wheatabix

Name: Scott "The Pun"Rayermann
Major: General
Year: -round puns
Hometown: The South (Dear Scott, Cody was the one who suggested this)
Hiking Experience: Case dorm to Ac-End
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: I loved my Pre-O experience and want to help to continue the program
Random Fact: Watch out Sontag Frosh. He will puntrol your life!!
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Corny Flakes (like Chris Gage)

Name: Jacob Peacock
Major: Undecided (Bio, math, phys or chem)
Year: 2015
Hometown: Haddonfield, NJ
Hiking Experience: Adirondacks, Catskills, Shenandoah, Pine Barrens, Philmont Scout Ranch
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: To meet you frosh and make sure you have fun.
Random Fact: I juggle lots!
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Reese's Puffs


Name: Alex Melville
Major: Astrology
Year: 2015
Hometown: South Woodstock, VT
Hiking Experience: Backpacking on the Long Trail and in the White Mts. of New Hampshire
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: My Pre-O experience was so great, I want all the new freshman coming to have as much fun as I did.
Random Fact: The banjo is actually an African instrument
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Pelicans, applealians, banananalians, chocotalians.
Name: Risa Egerter
Major: no
Year: 2015
Hometown: Oakland, California
Hiking Experience: yes
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: I like backpacking + people
Random Fact: I am gymnast
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: honey nut cheerios

Name: Diana Mar
Major: Engineering
Year: 2014
Hometown: Diamond Bar, California
Hiking Experience: Yep
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: I like hiking and I like frosh. Meat.
Random Fact: The eye of the tiger sees through the eye of the storm.
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Apple Jacks

Name: Andrew "Hill-Grrrrrrrr" Hilger
Major: Tree Pruning/Destructive Mining Practices
Year: 2010
Hometown: Oiltown, USA
Hiking Experience: To scout out the best forests for clear-cutting
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: Prospecting
Random Fact: I killed the Lorax®©™(Whichever of those doesn't get the college sued!)
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Tar Flakes

Name: Carola Purser
Major: Physics (the best major)
Year: 4 APO (After Pre-O)
Hometown: Bowie, Maryland
Hiking Experience: Pre-O (x2)! Summer camps as a kid
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: I went on Pre-O two years ago and had a ball, so of course I want to go again. I'd also like to meet the new Mudders, and I love hiking -- so, perfect!
Random Fact: I'm studying abroad in France, and therefore not responsible for the content of this description.
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Kangarooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos

Name: David Marangoni-Simonsen
Major: Awesome Hair
Year: 2013
Hometown: Pebble Beach, California
Hiking Experience: 11-day excursion, 3 3-day trips with mis amigos
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: I want to gain a freshman cult following before the others can!
Random Fact: -O: looks like a screaming person's head. And now you can't unsee it. You're welcome.
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Spaghettios

Name: Josh Sanz
Major: Engineering
Year: 2015
Hometown: Missoula, MT
Hiking Experience: Pre-O last year, tons of day hikes, a few (short) backpacking trips.
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: To help the frosh transition smoothly into Harvey Mudd, like it helped me last year.
Random Fact: Carbon has the highest melting point of any of the elements, followed by tungsten.
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Cinnamon Toast Crunch

Name: Cody O'Keefe Crosby
Major: Engineering
Year: 2015
Hometown: Los Altos, CA
Hiking Experience: More backpack trips than stars in the sky (at least it feels like it)
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: I really enjoyed Pre-O as a frosh, and I'm looking forward to meeting the incoming class of 2016
Random Fact: I really like aquariums and have several in my house.
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Cinnamon Toast Crunch

Name: Luke Sky(Mastalli-Kelly)walker
Major: Business, MBA random scribble
Year: 2020
Hometown: Washinyton, bc
Hiking Experience: Lots it week long babpukry t~irs thuough @ dereut.
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: Recrm* miuious ~ 2uem omgloy%z
Random Fact: I have terrible hand-writing.
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Quantum Bits

Name: Marie Kirkegaard
Major: Chemistry
Year: 2015
Hometown: Downers Grove, IL (western suburb of Chicago) (we should be glad its not an eastern suburb of Chicago)
Hiking Experience: Does Pre-O my frosh year count?
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: I want to scare, I mean welcome the frosh first.
Random Fact: I once got attacked by a hummingbird.
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Anything but what we eat on Pre-O.

Name: Tamara Savage
Major: Eng/Chem/Biochem
Year: Class of 2015
Hometown: El Sobcante, CA
Hiking Experience: Camping in Yosemite every summer
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: Make frosh worship me before anyone else gets a chance to.
Random Fact: .siht ekil etirw nac I
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: not oatmeal.

Name: Vivian "Viv" Wehner
Major: All of the majors (You think I'm joking...)
Year: 2013
Hometown: Somewhere in Oregon I believe
Hiking Experience: Pre-O (x2), probably lots of other things that Chris doesn't know about.
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: Its a nice break from the farm work.
Random Fact: I can probably beat up Chris Gage.
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Crisp, fresh air.

Name: Tristan Fitch
Major: Towel Enhancement Technologies
Year: 2015
Hometown: The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash
Hiking Experience: To the core!! (and back, though I cheated and got a ride on an RW6 half of the way back)
Why I'm Leading Pre-O: Earth is a lot froodier than most places I get to hike.
Random Fact: Guess what happens when you don't fill out a questionnaire and someone has just read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Stage 2 Red Supergiant stars.