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Upcoming events

New! Check out upcoming Alpine Club events on Google Calendar

If you have a Google account, you can use Google Calendar beta and add the Alpine Club's calendar to your calendar (don't worry, you can remove it later if you wish). To see the Alpine Club calendar, follow the link below:
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If you don't have an account, you can view the calendar here (imbedded) or here (external window).
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Future events


Sport climbing at Malibu Creek, Thursday May 15th at 3:30.
Email greghueyccc [at] isildur [dot] cosmology [dot] name for details.
Sport climbing at Malibu Creek, Sunday May 18th.
Email lukasf [at] gmail [dot] com

Past events from 2008

WMI First Aid Course, Fri-Sun May 16-18: see our WFA webpage
Midnight "cougar-baiting" hike up Echo Mtn, Tue May 13
Sport climbing at Red Rocks, Sat and Sun May 10-11
Sport climbing at Malibu Creek, Sat May 10th
Sport climbing at Echo Cliffs, Sun May 4th
Joshua Tree climbing, Sat and Sun April 26-27
Sport climbing, Sun April 20th
Sport climbing at Malibu Creek, Sat April 12th
Movie Night: King Lines, Tue April 8
Prefrosh Club Fair, Sat April 5
Skiing at Mt. Baldy, Sat April 5
Tahquitz climbing, Sat and Sun April 5-6
Sport climbing at Riverside Quarry, Sun Mar 30
Banff Mountain Film Festival, Tue Mar 25

The 2007/08 film tour came to Ramo Auditorium at Caltech on Tuesday, March 25th and was sold out once again. Tickets were $12 in advance, and $5 for students. Here's the Caltech Public Events Banff Film Festival site, and from the events website you can find information obtaining tickets. More information at banffmountainfestivals.ca

Joshua Tree, Sun March 23
Mountaineering trip to Mt. Sill, Thur-Sun Mar 20-23 (see Sierra Winter trips), 11 people
Sport climbing at Riverside Quarry, Sat March 15th
Sport climbing, Sun March 9th
Mountaineering trip to Mt. Whitney, Thur-Sun Mar 6-9 (see Sierra Winter trips), 12 people
Mountaineering trip to Mt. Baldy, Sat-Sun Feb 15-16 (preparation for our Sierra Winter trips), 15 people
Mountaineering trip to Mt. Baldy, Fri-Sat Feb 9-10 (preparation for our Sierra Winter trips), 19 people
Sport climbing at Malibu Creek, Sat Feb 9th
Skiing, Sun Feb 3rd
Dan Mazur, Everest climber, speaking event in Malibu, Wed Jan 30th
Sport climbing at Echo Cliffs, Sun Jan 27th
Bruce Normand, researcher and climber, speaking at USC, Thur Jan 24th
Banff Films selection with pizza dinner - 20 people! Wed Jan 23rd
Climbing on Villager and Rabbit peaks, Sat-Sun Jan 19-20
Skiing at Mt. Baldy, Sun Jan 13
Skiing at Mtn. High, Sun Jan 13
Hiking Mt. Baldy, Sat Jan 12
Sport climbing, Sat Jan 5

Past events from 2007

Past events from 2006

Past events from 2004 and 2005

The "Introduction to Mountaineering" series of trips from a few years ago

An ambitious program. Not all the mentioned trips were carried out.

Past events from before 2004

  • The old calendar from 2001/02 has links to many past trips. These trips are also mentioned in the Introduction to Mountaineering course mentioned above.
  • Bouldering competition at the Caltech gym, October 24th 2003. Here are results from the competition (or from another competition ??).
  • Williamson trip from 7/13/03
  • Mt. Logan slideshow about the Alpine Club trip to Mt. Logan. Slideshow took place July 11, 2002.

Please note that these are unofficial trips and all participants are at their own risk. Neither the Caltech Alpine Club nor Caltech are insuring participants. The purpose of this webpage is to list trips that several members are going on, not to endorse such trips as official trips. All participants are expected to climb safely. The Caltech Alpine Club discourages the use of alcohol on any trip.