For some of the CCW events, we utilize the space below to post cancellations or logistical updates that help communicate during uncertain conditions. Include our URL on your calendaring page, and stop back before you go to the event, and refresh your page.
1) IMPORTANT UPDATE!!! Lawless Forge warns against using MapQuest for your directions. They say:
"Please DO NOT use MapQuest for directions. When using Uber, be sure to double-check the destination address. Uber pulls data from MapQuest, which is incorrect. Unfortunately, we've been trying to resolve this issue with MapQuest without success."
2) All participants must fill out this waiver before arrival:
https://lawless-forge-sterling.checkfront.com/reserve/document/?template_id=1&id=ZXDV-260825
3) Make sure you notify Maggie and step out of pictures if your preference is not to be included at CCW web site, Facebook or Instagram posts or letters to the membership. We will respect your privacy!
4) Payments for this event get confusing, so please make sure you pay via the Cornell Club of Washington Registration system. Paid registrations that way secure participants an anvil for whacking!
Here is my list of paid registrants as of 11/19/2025: Sarah, Karen & Damon, Alex, Eric,/ Laurie / Madeleine, Vikram, Richard, Elysa, (with Peter, Ameilia. ) We have others "registered" but so far unpaid... which poses a challenge, so read on if that's you:
Please do not make separate arrangements with Lawless Forge to pay for our event without a written confirmation from Maggie... as your registration must move through the CCW web site to be paid for and valid with our CCW group. LOL: They do not have enough anvils to handle numbers for which we have not accounted in our reservation. If you are one of our LAST DAY ADDITIONS, please bring your checkbook in order to make your payment to CCW or let her watch you pay CCW via credit card with Maggie at the door. Thank you!
Link to check your registation: https://cornellclubdc.org/event-6314060 . When you log in, you can see if you are properly registered for the event and if you have made your non-refundable payment. I need to drop from registration anyone not fully paid a few days ahead of time and accommodate folks on our waiting list. Thanks! (But good news: the forge runs these workshops for the public and you can check into that possibility if our grouping does not work out for you.)
Questions? Accomodations for anyone not a Cornell Club member, or accompanied by one as their guest? Reach Maggie from Cornell Club of Washington by email to Librarian MS @ Gmail . com (no spaces.) This super popular event has been arranged with the interest of Cornell Club dues-paying members as our priority for engagement; I can post an update here if we end up having room for folks from other alumni clubs like Columbia U's, and that decision will be made by Nov. 24. Thank you for your interest because we LOVE our connections to other alumni groups!
If there is a scheduling change or cancellation (due to weather or other eventualities) it will be noted BELOW either midday of the event or earlier. Refresh this page and stop back before you go!
Yiming and Maggie are CONFIRMING this event for today! See you at the trailhead! Consult weather outlook.
Registration fees are non-refundable. (Honestly, we just don't have the manpower in our all-volunteer organization to manage the accounting involved for a an event of this sort.)
Registration is free for members of the Cornell Club of Washington, but, sorry, not free for non-members. CCW provides scholarships to needy students, and I think that's where most of the dues $$ goes. But we face a big annual fee to run our web platform. So, feel good about keeping CCW financially sound for its dues paying members. (Maggie works real hard to make social and charitable events unfancy and dirt cheap. )
Why not start learning names? Welcome these folks to our hike: Robyn & Damian, Caroline & John, Dorothy, Sam, Don & Ellen, Alexander & Guest, Nick & Cindy, Julie, Phil and Marty with their pals Bernie and wife (Yiming / Josef and Maggie are co-hosts)
Please remember to bring: water bottle, sunscreen, hat, hiking shoes, cash to tip wait staff, cash to pay Maggie if we are forced to put this on her credit card... and a snack to share according to list below:
women: a wedge of good cheese or washed grapes / fruit
men: a box of crackers for cheese or washed/prepped fruit or veggies
people who forget to bring anything: $$ to purchase a snack off of Casanel's menu to share. Details.
hosts: platters, knives, bowls, napkins, paper plates, containers for folks wanting the leftovers.
If you are interested in co-hosting a fun social or community service event in the future and want Maggie's support to see such through as your co-host, notice lots of possibilities across the top of this page.
Ideas can become EVENTS if I can find co-hosts!
Reach back at Librarian MS @ gmail . com (no spaces) to gather the support of a co-host
But you don't need too much support. See why!
If you take the short survey at the CCW home page, it will direct the efforts of CCW's volunteers to create events according to your interests.