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CMC Membership Demographics TTHEHE CCOLORADOOLORADO MMOUNOUNTAAININ CCLUBLUB 22007007 ANNNUALNUAL REPOREPORT Printed on post-consumer recycled paper. Please recycle this again or pass it on to a friend. The President’s Perspective 2007 CMC Annual Report Doug Skiba, Editor and Designer There have been a number of milestone years in the history of our Diane Tomecek, Assistant Editor Club, now approaching 100 years. This certainly has been one of them. Your Board of Directors began 2007 by working to implement the new CMC Staff strategic plan. We are pleased with this plan, which was based upon the Clare Bastable, Conservation Director input of hundreds of individual members, local CMC groups and employees, Julie Beckwith, Membership Services and informed by extensive surveys and research. Throughout the year we Director found ourselves referencing the mission, values and vision statements con- Tom Beckwith, Publications Manager tained in the plan as we developed programs and made decisions. We are Katie Blackett, Executive Director particularly pleased with the plan’s renewed focus on enhancing value for Anya Byers, Recreation Planning our membership. As the planning effort is ongoing, each group is encour- Coordinator Chris Case, Museum Creative aged to include their local efforts and needs in this coordinated activity. Coordinator Here are some updates for 2008. One major highlight was the opening Susan Dowd, Base Camp Manager of the Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum. This world- Krista Javoronok, Field Program class museum of climbing and mountain culture has received strong press Manager reviews and overwhelming accolades from visitors. While this project was Niña Johnson, Museum Director started over 15 years ago by visionary leaders, our present members can Olga Kopcha, Project Coordinator take pride and ownership in having opened the doors of this inspiring edu- Bryan Martin, Assistant Director of Conservation cational venue. We hope its messages of adventure, history, discovery and Shelby Mattingly, Assistant Controller stewardship infl uence future generations of mountain visitors. Cathy McGuire, Controller Additionally this year, an unplanned challenge arose when longtime Pam Nall, Membership Services CMC Executive Director Kristy Judd was recruited away from us by Colo- Representative rado’s premier volunteer development organization, Metro Volunteers. Brenda Porter, Education Director While we will miss our friend Kristy, we are happy for her opportunity. Heidi Potter, Youth Education Program Instructor A thoughtful and carefully planned national search was undertaken for Doug Skiba, Development Director Kristy’s replacement. From over 150 applicants and after dozens of inter- Bill Smith, Website/IT views, we emerged with an excellent new director, Katie Blackett. Katie Alan Stark, CMC Press Publisher has the skills, education and background to lead us into the next 100 Diane Tomecek, Development years, as we continue to change and advance as the premier mountaineer- Assistant ing club in our region. Stacy Wolff, School Programs Manager Please introduce yourself to Katie as you participate in one of the 3000 We gratefully acknowledge the or more trips and events hosted by our groups throughout the state. The contributions of past staff: more involved you become in Club activities, the more opportunities for fun, friendship and learning you will discover in our amazing organization. Brianna Depperschmidt Kristy Judd Annette Koch Carla Preston Vera Smith Janice Heidel Heidi Wallace CMC President CMC Offi cers and Directors Janice Heidel, President Earl Hughes Art Hogling, Vice President Carol Kurt David Hite, Secretary Gavin Maurer Todd Whalen, Treasurer Ann Morgan Bill Brown Sherry Richardson Kent Crites Lee Rimel Jay Fell Ed Seely Peter Gowen David Tabor Kent Groninger Wynne Whyman Cover photo: Chris Case The Colorado Mountain Club ● 710 Tenth St., Ste. 200, Golden, CO 80401 ● www.cmc.org CMC Adventure Travel By Bea Slingsby It was a busy and fun year for the CMC members who went on the Club’s Adventure Travel trips. Over 300 participants on 18 trips trav- eled within Colorado and to the other side of the world in Bhutan. The Adventure Travel Commit- tee is governed by the CMC State Board. We meet monthly to ap- prove new trips, assist Adventure Travel leaders, keep the leader manual updated, and handle many other matters that come before the committee. Our primary goal is to assist leaders’ plans and execute high quality trips for members. We also spend time recruiting new leaders. All committee members lead Adventure Travel trips. Adventure Travel hikers savor a rest in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Photo: Bea Slingsby. Visit the CMC website under Adventure Travel to see the ap- side the building, it was very easy. adventure store, Base Camp, con- proved trips for this year and to Not too many words had to be tinue to be strong, with merchan- sign up for the Adventure Travel exchanged. We agreed that this…. dise and gifts from around the e-newsletter. Please check often was it.” world. The response from both the as new trips are added frequently. Of course, the dream and the media and the public was almost We are currently reviewing and building have become what are overwhelming—a great problem to approving trips for 2009. known as the American Mountain- have for a new venue. eering Center, and the high school We have been covered from Bradford Washburn American they had entered was the old National Public Radio to the Wall Mountaineering Museum Golden High School, built in 1924. Street Journal, from a climbing By Nina Johnson, Museum With the opening of the Brad- website in the Czech Republic to a Director ford Washburn American Moun- newspaper in Honolulu. We ex- When Glenn Porzak and Jerry taineering Museum, housed in pected the climbing community to Caplan walked into an abandoned the gym of the old Golden High be excited that the national mu- high school on Dec. 22, 1992, their School, the dream is now reality. seum for mountaineering opened intention was to inspect the build- The opening of this museum shows in Golden. But it seems clear that ing as a possible home for their the many years of hard work, we underestimated the appeal to dream. They were greeted, how- dedication, devotion, anxiety, children, teachers and non-climb- ever, with broken windows and a vision, and research by countless ers alike. space in need of great repair. staff, club members, volunteers, We opened with an exhibit of “The walls were crumbling and the design team from Quatrefoil Inuit art, as well as a National they had graffi ti on them. There Associates, and our partners at Geographic-sponsored exhibit on was a smell of unoccupation and the American Alpine Club and Na- explorer Jon Waterman’s journey it was bitterly cold,” said Caplan, tional Geographic Society. across the Arctic National Wildlife describing that fi rst visit when Grand Opening weekend on Refuge. We plan to have a large fl ashlights illuminated the state February 16, 2008, saw over 800 exhibit of rare and exquisite world of decline. “As the realtors would visitors, with two days of festivi- maps from as far back as the 15th say, ‘It didn’t show well.’” ties, ceremonies, lecturers, trav- century in 2009, in partnership “Somehow, when we stood out- eling exhibits and art. Sales in our with a prominent Denver collec- Printed on post-consumer recycled paper. Please recycle this again or pass it on to a friend. tor and the National Geographic tion on the topic of mountain res- legendary Flatiron Classics for us? Society. cue, a unique niche in the emer- While 2007 was a good year for We continue to keep our gency service community fi lled CMC Press, 2008 will be even bet- friends and visitors updated by dedicated mountaineers who ter. Thank you for all your com- through our new website, frequently put other’s lives ahead ments about our books as well bwamm.org, and have kept our of their own. His new book, Play- as your fi nancial support for the popular blog at bwamm.blogspot. ing for Real: Stories from Rocky best guidebooks to the Colorado com. Please visit us there to learn Mountain Rescue (CMC Press, backcountry. about upcoming events and lec- 2007) gives an insider’s glimpse Conservation tures, as well as new exhibits. into the mountain rescue fra- ternity that most people would By Clare Bastable, Conservation (Though the museum did not otherwise never know.” Director open during the fi scal year this An- The year 2007 was a very ex- Inside Outside magazine said nual Report covers, we couldn’t re- citing year for the Conservation of Colorado’s Quiet Winter Trails, sist sharing the great news. -- Ed.) Department at the Colorado Moun- “Dave Muller writes about snow- tain Club, with a great number CMC Press shoe and cross-country ski trails of accomplishments to report. By Alan Stark, CMC Press that are free of snowmobiles (as Focusing on protecting wild places Publisher designated by state or federal in the Southern Rockies and pro- The Colorado Mountain Club regulations)...There is a diverse moting and safeguarding quiet, Press published three books last selection of the types of trails traditional recreational opportu- year including Playing for Real: and range of diffi culty for the nities, the Conservation Depart- Stories from Rocky Mountain snowshoeing and skiing masses. ment forged new partnerships and Rescue by Mark Scott-Nash, Colo- Muller provides comments, direc- invested energy in exciting initia- rado’s Quiet Winter Trails by Dave tions for getting there and the tives last year. Muller and Hiking Colorado’s tour. Beyond that he provides Roadless Trails by Penelope Purdy. critical winter information such The CMC worked over the course of 2007 to craft a state- The Denver Post wrote a fea- as gear, weather threats, hypo- wide Memorandum of Understand- ture story about Playing for Real, thermia, fi rst aid and all of the ing agreement with the Bureau “Scott-Nash, 45, recently took other season-specifi c tips that of Land Management, affording the mental stride from personal promise a safe snow trek.” us formal partner status with preparedness to public illumina- Westword liked Purdy’s Hik- this important land management ing Colorado’s Roadless Trails, “A agency.
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