OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CALIFORNIA ALPINE CLUB Volume 82 December 2006 - January 2007 No. 10 To all three generations of Alpiners: Come join us HOLIDAY DINNER AT ALPINE LODGE for the Children’s Holiday Party, Sunday, December Monday, December 25 10th from 3-5pm. Tim Cain, a wonderful guitarist, and a balloon lady will be there to entertain the Bonnie Radest will coordinate the Second Annual children. The club will provide the beverages, Potluck ‘Pig-out’ on Christmas Day, a fabulous Holiday ham and rolls. All participants should bring dinner, with turkey and wine provided by the Club, at the a favorite family dish to share. Cost is $10 Lodge. Happy hour is at 4pm and dinner at 5 pm. Kathi per family. Freeman will need some helpers for the clean up. The Don’t forget to bring a wrapped gift for cost is $12 for members and $15 for associate members. your child with the name clearly written on Please send your check (payable to Bonnie Radest) to 30 top because Santa Claus will spend time with Verissimo Drive, Novato, CA 94947. Contact Bonnie at us and give each child his or her own gift. 415-897-0227 or [email protected] for reservations and Sign up with Mary Frey by sending her your potluck plans. check. Please state how many people are in your family group. Please let — Bonnie Radest Mary know if you can help before or after the party. Her address is 100 Thorndale Drive, Apt #251, San Rafael, CA 94903. Phone: 415-492-2510. SWING INTO 2007 AT ALPINE LODGE! Email: [email protected] Sunday, December 31 — Mary Frey ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY The New Year’s Team of Barbara and John Lillich, Kati Siiteri, Cheryl Deaner, Lori Guidos, Tony Smith, Saturday, December 9 and Susan McCarthy invite you to join in the fun and celebrate New Year’s at the Alpine Lodge. By the time your read this, we will be days away from what I’m New Year’s Eve will begin with a no host happy hour told is one of the most fun and well attended events of the year at at 7 pm, followed by a potluck dinner and dessert. You Alpine Lodge: the Annual Holiday Party on December 9th. Happy will be asked to bring your favorite appetizer, salad, main Hour begins at 5 pm and dinner sixish. It is so popular we will need dish, side dish, bread or dessert. Wine will be provided to receive your reservation and payment by December 4th. We are with dinner. Cost will cover wine, coffee, late night snacks, planning our party for eighty people. It is $19 for members and $24 for decorations, and lodge use ($7 members; $10 associate associate members. If you plan to stay over and have breakfast, add $19 members). for members and $27 for associate members. Please send your payment For those who stay up, the celebration will continue to Mae Harms, 5941 Garden Park Drive, Garden Valley, CA 95633. with games, music, dancing, and sharing good times Okay, your reservation and payment are in the mail. What can around the fire to “see” in the New Year. Those staying you expect? First of all hunt around your house and wrap up those overnight, the usual costs will apply ($15 members; $20 treasures called white elephants. Bring them with you to the party. Our associate members). A champagne breakfast will be served Santa will engage you in a wonderful gift exchange with trading and at 8:30 am on New Year’s Day ($5 members; $8 associate laughs and maybe you will even get a treasure you will love! members). If you want to share a dish of your favorite holiday food, prepare Ben Heldens will lead the annual Top O’ Tam hike and bring it. It can be an appetizer, side dish or dessert. There’s been at 10 am. As the hikers return, we will begin happy hour a hitch in our plans for tamales as appetizers; we are still exploring which will lead into a hearty, healthy supper at about 3:30 See Annual Party page 5 See SWING page 5 DECEMBER 2006/JANUARY 2007 TRAILS TRAILS Editor ~ Tom Mahood PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE California Alpine Club I just returned from visiting some of the National The purpose of the Club is: To explore, enjoy and protect the natural resources of our land, Parks and Reserves in Italy and Switzerland. The contrast including wildlife, forests and plants, water and scenic values; to support and promote between these lands, heavily used for thousands of years, educational programs on these and related subjects; at all times, to protect and as far as we are able, to improve the environment in which we live; and to strengthen a sense of and jammed with hikers today, and ours, lightly used by community among our members. the Native Americans, and still containing large areas of Officers: wilderness, made me realize how fortunate we are here President Tony Smith 925-933-2403 [email protected] in California. To have TWO mountain lodges perched Vice President Carroll Pearson 408-736-9403 [email protected] Secretary Jean Rodgers 415-435-9383 [email protected] on the edge of these areas is truly remarkable; it would be Treasurer David Ratner 415-924-3043 [email protected] financially impossible to do this today. Echo Lodge is doing Registrar David Maier 831-462-2764 [email protected] OK as you stay a number of days, but in order to free up Board of Directors: more time at Alpine Lodge for our members use rather than John Hannan 510-527-6709 [email protected] Ann Meneguzzi 209-931-3423 [email protected] outside rentals, an increase in annual dues is being asked Ernie Pitz 415-383-8143 [email protected] for, so we don’t have to depend so much on this external Susan McCarthy, past pres. 408-293-0891 [email protected] source of income to maintain this wonderful place set on Eva Libien 415-383-5184 [email protected] Onnie Taylor 415-648-6380 [email protected] Panoramic Highway. I’m for it; are you? Please email or call me if not. Committee Chairpersons: Conservation Jay Hallberg 415-383-1507 [email protected] CAC stickers are now available. This private project Finance Jean Findlay 916-285-6186 [email protected] hopes to raise money for both lodges and the CAC Historian Verna West 650-854-6349 [email protected] Hike Leader Eva Libien 415-383-5184 [email protected] Foundation. The one hundred or so active members and Co-ordinator old timers can have one gratis if they want; other folks who Innkeeper Selma Bomfim 415-381-4676 [email protected] aren’t so active due to other commitments, health issues, or Co-ordinator Membership Laureen Novak 415-383-1507 [email protected] distance, please consider a donation of $5 per sticker and Outings Ros Carol 650-592-9394 [email protected] indicate where you wish the money (less the cost of about Publications Angela Blackwell 415-584-2586 [email protected] Sunshine Mary Maier 831-462-2764 $1 per sticker) directed. Stickers should be available at most Social Activities Susan McCarthy 408-293-0891 [email protected] CAC functions, or send a self-addressed, stamped envelope Parliamentarian Jean Findlay 916-285-6186 [email protected] and check to Tony Smith at 2345 Tice Creek Dr. #4, Walnut Lodge Trustees Creek, CA 94595. Seed money for this project came from Alpine Chair Ed Del Monte ’07 707-528-7983 [email protected] the Smith and Schweifler families, active in the CAC for Roger Diehnel '07 415-924-5519 [email protected] Nuala Caulfield '07 415-922-6775 [email protected] over 50 years. Ruth Tretbar ‘08 510-836-0108 [email protected] Happy Winter Solstice! Paul McKown '09 415-383-2774 [email protected] Alpine Rentals 415-381-4975 Treasurer Melanie Facen 415-492-0470 [email protected] — Tony Smith, President Echo Chair Cindy Toran ‘07 707-539-4396 [email protected] Tom Coleman ’08 707-769-7801 [email protected] DUES INCREASE FOR APRIL 1, 2007 Edie Nelson ’08 831-423-5576 [email protected] Jim Nixon '09 650-756-7771 [email protected] Ray Sommer ’06 415-472-1229 [email protected] The CAC Board of Directors will be proposing the CAC Foundation Directors following dues increase at the Quarterly Membership Jay Hallberg, President 415-383-1507 [email protected] meeting on January 21, 2007. The calculations were Mae Harms 530-333-1058 [email protected] based on creating an additional $6,000 of revenue in Bill Meneguzzi 916-451-1523 [email protected] support of Alpine Lodge. After receiving input from the “TRAILS” is the newsletter of the California Alpine Club. The editorial staff membership at the meeting and at any time via email reserves the right to edit all submitted copy. and phone calls, the Board of Directors will vote on the Editors: Angela Blackwell, Patricia Boyd, Anita Cabrera, Robert Feist, Beverly proposed increase at the Board of Directors meeting on Heywood, Tom Mahood, Carroll Pearson, Dan Schoenholz and Helena Troy. February 18, 2007. Contributors: Angela Blackwell, Ros Carol, Nuala Caufield, Mary Frey, Jay Hallberg, Sue Karp, Mae Harms, Eva Libien, John & Barbara Lillich, Membership Type Current Proposed Eike Linkwitz, Tom Mahood, Susan McCarthy, Barbara McVeigh-Miglio, Laureen Novak, Christine Piccin, Carroll Pearson, Tony Smith, Cindy Toran, Regular Membership $75 $90 Ruth Tretbar, Helena Troy, Susanna Van Leuven. Joint Membership $130 $155 Correspondence: Please address correspondence concerning this publication to: Senior Membership $50 $60 Tony Smith, 2345 Tice Creek Drive, #4, Walnut Creek, CA 94595-5210.