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Past events from 2009

Banff Mountain Film Festival, Tue Mar 17

The 2008/09 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

Winter Mountaineering Trip

By popular demand, the club held it's 3rd annual Winter Mountaineering Trip. We climbed Mt. Whitney (March 20-21) and then the Casaval Ridge on Mt. Shasta (April 4-5); we had a large practice trip (25 participants!) on Sat-Sun Feb. 21-21. Weather was an issue this year, and the practice trip, Whitney trip and Shasta trip all were postponed at various times due to storms and/or avalanche conditions. Also, check out the 2008 and 2007 webpages (we climbined Whitney both years, and Mt. Sill in 2008 as well), or the Mt. Shasta trip page (from our summer trip in 2006).

Winter Safety Workshop

Winter Safety Workshop, Sat Jan. 24 2009. Rob Klusman of Sierra Madre Search and Rescue will cover some basic winter topics, focusing on avalanche safety. This is NOT indended to replace a standard 3-day Level I AIARE course (if that's what you want, you should take the course in Bishop that JoHanna is organizing), but instead is an introduction to the subject.

The workshop is from 9 to 4 at the Caltech Y's multipurpose room, on Saturday Jan. 24. Lunch will be provided. RSVP to alpine for lunch-planning purposes.

Avalanche Course, Sat Jan 17 to Mon Jan 19

Avalanche course in January 2009! If interested, email JoHanna at johannap and fill out our application (MS Word document) as well as SMI's Application/Waiver (PDF). More details on our Avalanche course website.

NOTE: as of Jan '09, small weekly climbing trips are no longer mentioned here

The good news is that there are many weekly trips to Joshua Tree, etc. But it's hard keeping the website up-to-date, so these are no longer reported here. Be sure to join the mailing list if you want to stay current!

Climbing at Joshua Tree with UC-Riverside, Fri-Sun Jan 9-11
Sport climbing at Riverside Quary, Sun Jan 4
Sport climbing at Echo Cliffs, Sat Jan 3

Past events from 2008

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.
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).
Email alpine if you'd like permission to edit the calendar.

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.