November 2009 Meeting

We plan to meet on November 10th (second Tuesday of the month) in the Gander Mountain store at 6:30 pm until 9 pm.  We need to vacate the store by 9 pm, as that is when they close up shop.  Hope you have the evening free.  Also, feel free to bring and share munchy foods and or soft drinks.  Note that the store has a policy disallowing alcoholic beverages.


Carroll Wilcox will present visuals of his successful climbs of Mt. Shuksan & Mt. Adams in the North Cascades of Washington.  Of course, Shuksan is a very picturesque and classic climb.  Here is a description of their climbs in Carroll's own words:

"Our Washington trip was from Jul 8th-19th, 2009.  Members included Rick French (trip leader), Chris McManus, Chris Stager, Paul Neumann and Carroll Wilcox.  After a day in Seattle and traveling to the North Cascades, we started on Mt. Shuksan (9,131') with a 7 
hour hike in followed by a day of training, then our summit day/hike out climbing via the Sulphide Glacier (a 17-hr day).  We had an 
extraordinary weather window of blue skies for the entire 3 days.  For most of the members of our group, it was the 2nd or 3rd 
attempt at climbing Shuksan so we were thrilled at having finally succeeded.  After a couple days of relaxing during which we did some
simple spelunking in the Ape Cave on the south side of Mt. St. Helens, we headed to Mt Adams (12, 281') in the South Cascades.  We 
hiked in from the Yakama Indian Reservation to our base camp and climbed Mt. Adams via the Mazama Glacier the next day in equally
good weather and hiked out the same day.  We ended with a trip to Mt. Hood for skiing, snowboarding and hiking."

Hope you have the night free to attend and do bring along any interested friends.  See you there.

Here are three nice photos:

Shuksan pyramid summit
Shuksan summit pyramid from the Sulfide Glacier (heavily crevassed Crystal Glacier on the right)


mt. baker from shuksan
                            Mt. Baker from the Sulfide Glacier on Shuksan
carroll on mt. adams
Carroll Wilcox slogging up Mt. Adams

DIRECTIONS

Gander Mountain "lodge" (inside front doors to the right), 300 Jay Scutti Blvd., Rochester, NY 14623
It is across the street off Jefferson Road from Marketplace Mall
gander mountain

Those who wish to join RRISCC officially by paying the annual dues amount of $10.00 can do so for our current fiscal year September 1, 2009 through August 31, 2010 by sending a check to Henry Hamlin.  His address can be found here.  The advantages are that dues-paying members are entitled to a 20% discount at EMS (Eastern Mountain Store) on their club days held twice a year.  A 25% discount is also available for online orders or email orders from Do Wrap Performance Headwear at www.sweatvac.com or www.wickiewear.com, by typing in the coupon code "xxxxx" [contact Stu to get this code] in the box that appears towards the end of the checkout process.

And, dues-paying members can borrow library materials belonging to the club and to Stu Milligan which are listed here.  A membership card would then be mailed to you.

RRISCC President

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