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Join outdoor enthusiasts for a fun-filled weekend of multi-sport adventuring and a celebration of Colorado's lifestyle!

This family-friendly event, powered by prAna, is free and open Learn to Use the to the public with a vendor village featuring gear demos and giveaways, film festival, entertainment, food trucks, and a craft CMC's New RIMS beer garden from Odell. App!

Register CMC's Recreation Impact Monitoring System (RIMS) Mobile App is ready for testing - this training will prepare volunteers to utilize the mobile application in 2019 for trail assessments, campsite assessments and visitor use monitoring.

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Social Activities Calendar

Saturday, October 5 – Talkin’ CMC Leader Appreciation Night Thanksgiving and Christmas Day Trips. Drop by and share your ideas for how we can make our annual 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7 holiday trips better than ever. CMC leaders looking for a holiday American Mountaineering Center adventure are welcome, too. Meet Golden, CO Patricia Leslie (wearing a green jacket) at the Starbuck’s in the REI The keynote speaker will be a representative from Colorado Platte River Flagship Store, 1416 Rapid Avalanche Deployment, which uses highly trained dogs Platte St. Denver at 2:00 p.m. Email in their rescue work. They will be bringing an ambassador dog. her at [email protected] by We will also honor the three trip leaders who’ve led the most Friday, the 4th, with your cell phone trips. There will be giveaways, as well as food and beer. The number for the easiest way to event is free but we need leaders to sign up so we can order connect in the busy Starbuck’s the right amount of refreshments. coffee shop the day of the event.

Wednesday, October 9 – “Bears Don’t Care About Your Details Problems.” It’s a free fun hour of entertainment from humorist and author Brendan Leonard at the REI Denver Flagship Store, 1416 Platte St. starting at 6:30 p.m. Check with the information desk for the room location. [email protected]

Saturday, October 12 – A Coors and Golden Chamber Event in Parfet Park (across the street from CMC). “Knock your Boots off Chili Cook-Off, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. For chili and beer tasting prices and tickets contact www.cityofgolden.net/event.

Saturday, October 12 – “An Arctic Perspective on Contemporary Global Warming.” “As ice caps melt …scientists have discovered the past century is the warmest century in more than 50,000 years.” Hear from an expert who conducts Two CMC Teams Arctic and Alpine research how contemporary global warming is Summit Denali measured. This event is free, a part of CU’s weekend outreach program. Denali is the dream for any mountaineer. It’s summit at 20,310 Contact CMC leader Patricia Leslie, feet, it is the prize of North American mountaineering, rising [email protected] by Friday, dramatically above the Alaska Range, and so prominent it can the 11th, for the late Saturday be seen from downtown Anchorage. morning meeting time and place in Denver to carpool with us to Boulder For two Colorado Mountain Club teams, Denali was the for the free 1:00-3:00 p.m. event. culmination of skills, talent, and perseverance, enduring icy cold conditions, rapidly changing weather, treacherous glaciers, Saturday, October 19 - Dinner at crevasses, and long days hauling sleds of gear from camp to Citron Bistro, 5:00 p.m. This camp. restaurant at 3535 S. Yosemite (near Hampden) has a great and affordable menu. Those interested can ride with us afterward on RTD Light Rail to the Full Article Symphony (see below). Come to one or both events. For directions and reservation (required), call Bob Shedd, 720-290-6014.

Denver Group Annual Dinner Saturday, October 19 - Colorado Symphony, 7:30 p.m. Great program features the Dvorak's 7th Sunday, Nov. 17 Symphony and more. Discount American Mountaineering Center tickets $29. To sign up, or to cancel, Golden, CO you must call or email the host by 11:30 a.m. on the day of the ***Tickets NOW AVAILABLE*** concert. Bob Shedd, [email protected] or 720-290- Celebrate the annual Volunteers of the Year and recap another 6014. great year of community and adventure in the Denver Group.

The keynote speaker, Jane (Koerner) Parnell, is the first Tuesday, October 22 – New CMC woman to climb the 100 highest peaks in Colorado. She went members New to Denver Special on to climb nearly 400 more 13ers, as well as peaks in Event. Experience top landmarks, Ecuador, Bolivia and Mexico. Her mountaineering memoir, Off sights and history that make Denver Trail: Finding My Way Home in the Colorado Rockies, was unique sponsored by Denver Free recently published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Walking Tours. Snap some great photos. Email CMC leader [email protected] for time Tickets etc.

Friday October 25 – TGIF at Hanson’s 1301 S. Pearl, 5:30 p.m. [email protected]

Thanksgiving Day Holiday Preview Thursday, November 28 is turkey day. Join us for a short, easy CMC hike followed by a delicious Thanksgiving dinner at a nearby restaurant.

Upcoming First Aid Courses

Wilderness First Aid (WFA)

The CMC Denver Group’s Wilderness First Aid School (WFA) is offering a two-day course on October 20 and 27, 2019. The course is now open for registration on the CMC calendar. An ECSI WFA two-year certification is issued upon successful completion of the course. (The certification time period changed in 2018.)

The 2019 course tuition is $100 and is available to all CMC members (Denver Group leaders can apply for SALT scholarships, which covers the cost of the class).

A one-day WFA Refresher (WFAR) course is being offered on December 7, 2019. This course is limited to members who have taken WFA or WFAR within that past 30 months. The 2019 WFAR tuition is $90 (scholarships are also available for this course). Registration will open on September 4, 2019.

For more information or to register, please visit cmcdenver.org. Introducing the New Contact Jeff Flax, Denver Group Backpacking Section WFA School Director, for more information about the WFA courses CMC Denver now has a backpacking section (BPX). The at [email protected]. Denver Group Council approved the new section, with John Walters as chair, at its September 2019 business meeting. CPR/AED for Outdoor Recreationists Classes Available The purpose of BPX is to promote backpacking as a CMC core on September 9th and November activity, organize and coordinate backpacking trips, and give 18th (take one class only) early notice to members of BPX events. The CMC Denver Group’s The new section already has 200 members. Anyone interested Wilderness First Aid School (WFA) in joining BPX and receiving BPX news and notices may is offering 2 ½ hour ECSI nationally contact the CMC office at 303-279-3080. There is currently no certified CPR and AED (automated cost of membership. external defibrillator) evening classes at the AMC/CMC on Monday, Any Denver member may join BPX, but to go on BPX trips, September 9th and on Monday, backpack training (BKPS or equivalent) or appropriate November 18th (take one class experience may be required. only). The classes are from 6:30 to 9:00. The course also covers The BPX Committee is currently seeking additional Committee information on how to relieve choking members to help manage the Section, as well as Trip Leaders victims. for BPX backpacking trips. If interested, please contact John Walters at [email protected] or 303-995-7638. The class is available for sign-up on the CMC.org calendar. A two-year CPR/AED certification is included with the class. For more information and the registration links, visit cmcdenver.org.

The 2019 course tuition is $30 and is available to all CMC members (Denver Group leaders can apply for SALT scholarships, which covers the cost of the class).

For more information, contact Jeff Flax, Denver Group WFA School Director, at [email protected].

CMC Discount at Trip Leader School Nomad Taqueria Begins Oct. 19 It’s always awkward arranging for a The Denver Group’s Fall Trip Leader School is now open for post-trip get-together when the return registration. The CMC always welcomes new trip leaders to time isn’t certain and people are help increase the number of outings and hikes on the calendar undecided. For carpools originating at Wooly Mammoth, that problem is For information on the prerequisites and for how to sign up, now solved by Origin Hotel Red please click the buttons below. There is no fee for Trip Rocks’ Nomad Taqueria Bar. Nomad Leader School, but an application must be submitted. offers CMC'ers a 10% discount on For more information please contact: food (not liquor) when you mention you are with a CMC group. It’s a Kevin Schaal, Director Trip Leader School nice atmosphere inside and outside, ([email protected]) with plenty of tables for big groups. Jeff Stevens, incoming Director Trip Leader School ([email protected]) Tammy Cullins, Assistant Director Trip Leader School ([email protected]) Menu

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Denver Group Conservation Rick Crandall Returns! Book Tour

After being largely inactive for several years, the Denver Group Rick Crandall, the inspiring author Conservation Program has returned in 2019. Readers may of The Dog Who Took Me Up a notice that we now have a new name. We’re still a Committee Mountain, will talk about hiis for identification purposes, as you will note when reading our adventures with an Australian Terrier new charter on the Denver Group web site. The charter has named Emme (pronounced “emmy”) been approved by both the Denver Group Council and the CMC who was responsible for him starting Conservation Director. We’ll be tinkering with it some. But it will to hike in the hills around Aspen, be our basic business model going forward. Colorado in his sixties. With Emme, the occasional activity became a As part of the rebuilding process, quarterly meetings are serious hobby, then blossomed into scheduled. In the near future, those meetings will be in Golden a full-blown mission, and together on September 25, 2019, December 4, March 18, 2020, and the 20 pound dog with four-inch legs June 3. All members are welcome. Watch for announcements and the then sixty-four-year-old Rick in the Events portion of the Calendar on the CMC web site. climbed their first fourteener. Before long, Rick would go on to climb The Program is still assessing where its work focus areas will every mountain over 14,000 feet in be. But for now, priority areas will be Jefferson County Open the Rocky Mountains – all fifty-eight Space; Douglas County, including their open space program of them. plus Rampart Range; and the US 285 corridor, to include the South Platte and South Park Ranger Districts. Eventually, we want to get engaged with the I-70 corridor as time and presence Schedule of member activists allow. We are again collaborating with the Denver Group Trails Committee and the Pikes Peak Group Trails & Conservation Committee for this work.

In future issues of the Mile High Mountaineer, we’ll examine Call for these work focus areas and why they are important for Club schools, trips, and members. If you would like to be on Denver Conservation’s e-mail update list, please contact Interim Submissions Organizer Steve Bonowski at: [email protected]. Have an item you'd like included in a future Mile High Mountaineer newsletter? The next deadline is Friday, September 13. Please send submissions Nature Writing Book Club to: [email protected].

Explore the relationship between humans and the non-human world by reading the “literature of the environment” with Golden’s newest book club, a partnership between Pack Animal Magazine, the American Alpine Club Library, and the West Denver chapter of Trout Unlimited.

“Environmental literature… has a remarkably tangible impact on both the ethics and the politics of conservation,” author Alison Hawthorne Deming writes. Reading and talking about this literature helps us connect to nature in a new way and gives us context for understanding the complicated history of our public lands. Henry David Thoreau believed that “we need the tonic of wildness” and Mary Oliver wrote that “attention is the beginning of devotion." Join a group that feels the same way.

Our book club meets in the American Alpine Club’s library in the basement of the American Mountaineering Center in downtown Golden from 6-7pm the fourth Wednesday of every month. Book selections and more details can be found here:

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Winter Camping School 2020

Begins January 28

This is a non-survival school for those who want to enjoy the winter, snow and moonlight in comfort. Winter Camping School concentrates on the fundamental understanding, equipment and techniques to keep warm in cold environment on an overnight stay. It covers topics as dressing, traveling, setting up campsite, cooking and sleeping comfortably in the winter among others.

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Geology Hikes

Have you ever wanted to learn more about the geology of the Rocky Mountains? Veteran CMC trip leader and geologist Roxana Safipour has launched a new geology tour company! Trail Gems Geology Tours takes people on guided interpretive geology hikes in Colorado. Geology hikes are offered at Red Rocks Amphitheater, North Table Mountain, Castlewood Canyon, and Rocky Mountain National Park. Car tours of the Golden area are also available for those who don’t wish to hike. Hikes are offered year-round, and microspikes are provided in the winter.

Roxana has a PhD from Colorado School of Mines and spent 6+ years working in the gold mining industry. She is also a graduate of the CMC’s Wilderness Trekking School and Basic Mountaineering School. Learn more and sign up for a geology hike at www.trailgems.com. Current CMC members can get 10% off on a hike registration by using the coupon code “CMC10” at checkout.

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