Stanford Alpine Club Event Calendar
This page generally includes instructional trips and
official club outings but not informally arranged trips.
Please see the page on
instructional trips if you want to know how they work.
Check the Calendar Archive to
see what you've missed.
May 2008
May 12 (Monday), 7:00pm
regular SAC meeting
7:00 meeting, 7:30 climbing + skiing DVDs.
In Clark Center s360.
map/directions
May 17-18
Trad Lead Workshop (part 2 of 2)
Leader: Bjorn
Instructors: Jared, Nathan, Sam
See the classes page for more info.
May 19 (Monday), 7:30pm
Sierra Nevada Slideshow Series -
Robert Summers -
Leaning Tower + The Caucasus
Alpbaza Bezengi
Kabardino Balkaria (The Russian Autonomous Region in the North Caucasus)
First part: A Yosemite wall in the 60's.
Dave Calfee and I climbed the Leaning Tower in June 1967.
This is a short set of pictures, not enough for a stand alone program. At
that time it kept two guys pretty busy just getting up the route in 2
days.
Second part: climbing in the Bezengi Region of the Caucasus
in
1975. This is the area where A. F. Mummery ( "Climbs in the Alps and
Caucasus")went climbing in the 19th century.
The main peak that we climbed was Koshtan Tau.
We had a local group of four with overlapping affiliations SAC/RCS/AAC.
It required a 6 months correspondence with the Russian Mountaineering
Federation to make the arrangements. Once we arriver the Russian Climbers
were wonderful hosts.
Location: Clark Center Room s360 (near Peet's Coffee)
map / directions
June 2008
June 6-11
spring quarter exam week
September 2008
September 22
start of fall quarter