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.
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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.
December 2: Steve Curtis – Climbing Misadventures in Israel and Ethiopia
November 28, 2025
Location: Victory House, Club 300 Room at the Epicenter, 3215 Coffey Lane, Santa Rosa Date and Time: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 @ 7:30 PM (Social hour at 6:30) Steve Curtis, the consummate international globe trotter to climbing areas great and small, will share his recent travels to Israel in 2023 and Malawi-Ethiopia in 2024. Israel was not a climbing trip. However, a climber climbs when there is overhanging rock, and Israel has overhanging limestone walls to 150 ft., usually associated with caves that hosted prehistoric human and livestock habitation. Malawi-Ethiopia was a recommended climbing trip. Addis Ababa has a decent cliff 10 miles outside of town. Malawi has hundreds of granite walls including one at 3,500 feet tall whose distinguishing feature was the presence of baboons throwing dirt down on us while climbing.
November 4: Jerry Dodrill – A Life in the Landscape
November 4: Jerry Dodrill – A Life in the Landscape Location: Victory House, Club 300 Room at the Epicenter, 3215 Coffey Lane, Santa Rosa Date and Time: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 @ 7:30 PM (Social hour at 6:30) Jerry Dodrill shares his personal story and images from an adventurous life climbing, exploring and photographing around the world. A sixth generation California native who grew up camping with grandparents in the Sierra Nevada, he began rock climbing in 1987 at fourteen years old. By the late ‘90s he had climbed the major walls in Yosemite, the Sierra 14ers, peaks in South America and across the American West. A passion for first ascents led him to establish many new routes in the North Bay, Mt. St. Helena, Sonora Pass, and the High Sierra, in addition to international expeditions. He was assistant to legendary adventure photographer Galen Rowell and has worked alongside some of the top American landscape photographers of our time. After twenty five years committed to his craft, Jerry has emerged as a prominent nature and conservation photographer, educator, and expedition guide for Visionary Wild and The Ansel Adams Gallery. When not guiding clients to Greenland, Central Asia or other destinations, he lives on the … READ MORE
October 7: Social Gathering at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, Kenwood, CA
September 5, 2025
October 7: Social Gathering at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, Kenwood, CA Location: Group Campsite at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, Kenwood, CA Date & Time: Tuesday, October 7, 2025 starting @ 5:00 PM We plan to have a social gathering at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park in Kenwood at the group campsite. There are bouldering and rope climbing opportunities in the park as well as hiking and biking. We plan to have a BBQ (bring your own food and drinks) and the opportunity to camp out Tuesday night. We should have daylight to climb until about 7:00 PM. The park is located at 2605 Adobe Canyon Road in Kenwood. The group campsite is located at the end of the road at the observatory.