Location: Round Table Pizza, 2065 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa
Time & Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2012 @ 7:30 PM (Social hours and free beer for members at 6:30)
Directions: From Highway 101 at Santa Rosa go west on Highway 12 to Stony Point Road Exit. Go straight from the middle lane at the light onto Occidental Road. The Round Table Pizza is on the right just down the road.
Yosemite climbing pioneer, Allen Steck, will be showing a film that Steve Roper, Dick Long and Allen made during their ascent of the Salathe Wall in 1966. It was the third ascent of the route which was originally done in 1962 by Royal Robbins, Chuck Pratt and Tom Frost who made the first and second ascents.
Allen, an Oakland, California native, began climbing in Yosemite Valley in 1947, initially learning the use of pitons by trial and error. He said that at that time, there “was no body of people who could help you learn these things.” He has been a Life Member of the Sierra Club since 1947.
Allen, along with Steve Roper, has been the long-time editor of the mountaineering journal Ascent, which was originally published by the Sierra Club and later by the American Alpine Club. Steck and Roper also wrote the book Fifty Classic Climbs of North America, first published in 1979.
photo credit: Dan McDevitt
