We Have A New Meeting Location
The Rock Ice & Mountain Club is very excited to announce that we have a new general meeting location. We will be holding our monthly general meeting at the Epicenter Sports and Entertainment facility located at 3215 Coffey Lane in Santa Rosa. This is an incredible facility with a variety of fun activities for the entire family. More importantly, they have a great conference room at the Victory House where we will have our general meetings. The Victory House has a full bar and menu where we can order food and drinks for the meeting.
Epicenter Sports and Entertainment | Epicenter (visitepicenter.com)
Who We Are
The Rock Ice & Mountain Club serves the climbing and outdoor community of the North San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. We offer a chance to meet like minded people and get inspired by top notch presentations. Our monthly meetings are free to the general public.
Shows have included accounts of climbing in Nepal, Tibet, Russia, the Sierra Nevada, Europe and Bhutan. The club has organized trips in Sonoma County, the Sierras, the Cascades, as well as other climbing areas including Red Rocks, Joshua Tree, and Smith Rock.
There are Club meetings on the first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm at the Epicenter Sports and Entertainment Center located at 3215 Coffey Lane in Santa Rosa. At each meeting there is a raffle, a multimedia presentation, and an opportunity to mix with other climbers from the area.
November 16 – Mt. St. Helena Adopt-A-Crag Event at Robert Louis Stevenson State Park
October 27, 2024
November 16: Mt. St. Helena Adopt-A-Crag Event at Robert Louis Stevenson State Park in Calistoga, CA. We have re-scheduled the Adopt-A-Crag event for November 16. We are excited to once again host this cleanup event with the Bay Area Climbers Coalition. We are doing the cleanup on October 5, then plan to hang out and camp out at Bothe State Park. Then have a full day of climbing on October 6. Mt Saint Helena Adopt-a-Crag Date: Saturday November 16th Time: 9am to 1pm Location: Mt Saint Helena, Calistoga CA Parking Directions: main parking lot for Robert Louis Stevenson State Park – https://maps.app.goo.gl/95WTTwKyqzV8ieni7?g_st=ic Thanks for volunteering with the BACC and RIM Club! We’re excited to partner with Napa County Parks for a day of stewardship at Mt Saint Helena. The event will focus on trail work and trash pickup Saturday, November 16th. If folks want to stay overnight at a walk in camp site, please join us! NOTE: The maximum group size for overnight camping is 24 people. We’ll make a wait list if sign-ups exceed this limit. Use the QR Code below or this link to sign up. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfgOiy0abIObGJK-gJA9Tr_2y91Ne9xQCQ383yGsKnxyzlxOQ/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0&pli=1
November 5 – Chris Jones Tribute: “Mountain of Storms” Movie
November 5: Chris Jones Tribute: “Mountain of Storms” Movie Location: Victory House, Club 300 Room at the Epicenter, 3215 Coffey Lane, Santa Rosa Date & Time: Tuesday, November 5, 2024 @ 7:30 PM (Social hour at 6:30) We are mourning the recent loss of Chris Jones. Chris was a British alpinist, climber and author. But to us, he was our friend and our local hero who lived in Glen Ellen. Chris established incredibly bold alpine routes, most notably, the 1974 first ascent of the north face of North Twin in the Canadian Rockies with George Lowe. In 1968, Jones, with Yvon Chouinard, Doug Tompkins, Dick Dorworth and Lito Tejada-Flores travelled from California down to Patagonia to climb Cerro Fitz Roy. They filmed their expedition and put their footage into a film called “Mountain of Storms”. Chris also authored the famous climbing book “Climbing in North America”. We will be showing the film “Mountain of Storms” and give a tribute to Chris at our November meeting. photo credits: George Lowe
October 1 – Darren Wiemeyer: Mainland Greece Climbing – From the Sea to the Mountain of the Gods
September 24, 2024
October 1: Darren Wiemeyer: Mainland Greece Climbing – From the Sea to the Mountain of the Gods Location: Victory House, Club 300 Room at the Epicenter, 3215 Coffey Lane, Santa Rosa Date & Time: Tuesday, October 1, 2024 @ 7:30 PM (Social hour at 6:30) Rock Ice & Mountain Club president, Darren Wiemeyer and his wife Natalie, went on an epic trip to mainland Greece in 2023. They got to sample a variety of climbing locations and rock types. The biggest surprise was how nice and welcoming the Greek people were and how stunning the water is in the Ionian and Aegean Seas.