The Club has received tentative approval for climbs of Culebra on three consecutive days in late August, 2003. One of the climbs will include Red Mountain. Further details will be available on the club web site at www.cmc.org.
CMC member Ardis Rohwer received the “Pioneer Award” recently from the Colorado Sportswoman Hall of Fame. The award is one of a number of special awards granted annually. Rohwer was recognized for her early work in establishing athletics programs for girls in Colorado’s schools. Congratulations, Ardis. P
By Rolf Asphaug
The Henry S. Hall Jr. American Alpine Club Library and Colorado Mountain Club Collection now has its library catalog on the internet, making it available for online searches. The library includes 375 videos on mountaineering, rock climbing, backcountry skiing, hiking and many other subjects available for thirty-day checkout and thirty-day renewal. Many of these videos are not widely available; three thousand national and international guidebooks with a large Colorado section available for thirty-day checkout and thirty-day renewal; 250 national and international alpine journals and climbing serials, including favorites such as Climbing, Accidents in North American Mountaineering, and many more.
The catalog can be viewed at: http://americanalpineclub.library.net.
Established in 1916, the AAC library is one of the oldest alpine libraries
in the U.S. and the largest such circulating library in the Western Hemisphere.
If you haven’t visited the library, you’re missing out on a real treat. It
has comfortable seating for reading and research, a VCR available in the library
for watching videos, two full-time library staff members to assist with any
mountain-related question no matter how unusual, and a rare book collection
dating from the sixteenth century including the Himalayan Library of three
thousand books on the world’s fourteen highest mountains.
The library is open Tuesday and Thursday noon to 7 p.m., and Wednesday and Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Please contact the library at (303) 384-0112 or library@americanalpineclub.org to inquire into Saturday or Monday visits.
Any book or video in the Library (other than rare books) can also be checked out by mail. Mailing to you as a cmc member is free of charge; all you have to pay is the return postage. It’s a great resource for mountaineers and trip leaders. If you’re not sure what you want to check out by mail, just call or email the library, or check out the catalog. P
Resource materials available online
By Rolf Asphaug
Do you need more liability waivers, or are you missing your Member Hand-book or Leader Handbook? You can view and download many leader-related forms and materials at: http://www.cmc.org/member/index.html#leader. (You will be asked to enter your password. Use your membership number for your name and your zip code as your password.) This site also links you to the Trail & Timberline Online, as well as the online Activity Schedule (approximately two months’ worth of trips).
This site also contains minutes for the CMC Board of Directors meet-ings. Take a look at what your representatives, CMC staff, and state committees are working on. Some of the above materials are also available, along with photos from CMC Board and State Council meetings, at http://homepage.mac.com/rolfdenver/cmc. P