Location: Round Table Pizza, 2065 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa Time & Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2014 @ 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. Hawaiian-born, Berkeley-raised Peter Haan began climbing in summer of 1963, not quite 15 years of age. The golden age of Yosemite was in mid-swing and yet Haan was still a teenager. Consistently involved as the years have gone by and several distinct eras come and gone, his first solo ascent of the Salathe Wall, first free ascent of the Left Side of the Hourglass, the first un-roped ascent of Crack of Despair and other free climbs in the early Seventies, still stand tall in our history. Now forty years after these climbs, Haan still remains involved on a variety of levels, writing for Alpinist Magazine, Rock & Ice, The American Alpine Journal, and is deeply committed to an unusual type of sometimes narrative Photoshop imagery related to his understanding of climbing … READ MORE

Location: Round Table Pizza, 2065 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa Time & Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 @ 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. Steve Curtis was born and raised in Petaluma, California and after a long time abroad, including 6 years in Germany, he has returned to the area and has not let up on his life long passion for climbing. Curtis is a retired air force prosthodontist with 27 years of service, board certified in 1994 and elected to the American Board of Prosthodontists in 2007. Steve’s notable climbs include the Nose in 16 hours, the Half Dome Regular route in 7 hours, plus long hard speed rope solos in Europe. Steve is a true climbing hardman who’s accomplishments continue to stay under the radar. That is until we get him to do a slideshow for us. Steve recently travelled to Bolivia to sample the variety of climbing that this intriguing country has … READ MORE

Location: Round Table Pizza, 2065 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa Time & Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 @ 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. This evening, Jerry Dodrill will give a presentation for the Rock Ice & Mountain Club: “I”ll be highlighting my life-long love affair with climbing and photographing the peaks of the High Sierra, and the progression (under the direct influence of Galen Rowell) from heavy pack-in trips to light, alpine-style climbs and traverses. I’ll show images and a couple video clips from recent adventures in the high country, including the Cathedral Range, Palisades, and Evolution traverses, and will speak to the recent passing of my friend Brad Parker on Matthes Crest”. We hope you can attend. Sorry for the late notice.

Event: Rock Ice & Mountain Club 20th Anniversary Party Date: September 7, 2014 Location: Laguna Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Road, Santa Rosa, CA Time: 4pm – 9pm It is with great pleasure that we announce the Rock Ice & Mountain Club’s 20th Anniversary Party on Sunday, September 7, 2014 at the Laguna Environmental Center in Santa Rosa, CA. This is a free event for our past and current members, sponsors and friends of the RIM Club. There will be delicious food catered by our friends at Railroad Station Bar and Grill, beer from Lagunitas Brewing Company, local wines, live music by Lazyman, a running slideshow of the RIM Club in action over the years and a silent auction. We are teaming up with the American Safe Climbing Association (ASCA) and will donate a portion of the proceeds from the silent auction to further the ASCA mission to replace old bolts and increase climbing safety. This is a great reason to bring everyone associated with the Club together for an afternoon and evening of celebration, comradery and reconnections between old friends and climbing partners. 20 Years! Can you believe it! You need an invitation and you need to RSVP to take … READ MORE

Location: Round Table Pizza, 2065 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa Time & Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 @ 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. Mark Thomas has been a lifelong outdoor enthusiast, growing up as an avid skier, cyclist, and hiker in Salt Lake City, Utah. Since moving to California in 2002, he has moved on to bigger and more technical mountain and rock outings, including two trips to Alaska, and a multitude of outings to Canada, Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, and Colorado, as well as many more in Utah and California. He seeks out everything from ice climbing and glacier travel, to rock climbing some big walls. He often tries to incorporate some ultra-endurance, exploratory, and photography aspects to his various trips. Mark specializes in days of gaining large elevation, lugging heavy packs, crack climbing (especially chimneys and offwidths), and he especially loves climbing in his beloved red rock country of the Moab area in … READ MORE

Location: Round Table Pizza, 2065 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa Time & Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 @ 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. Shuteye Ridge is an emerging climbing area in the western Sierra that offers some of the most unique granite in the range. Protected for years by its proximity to Yosemite Valley, this often over-looked area has been seeing a lot of attention by more and more climbers in the last decade. With now nearly 1,000 routes, Shuteye has blossomed into a destination area of its own, fulfilling Royal Robbin’s prophesy that he made back in 1974. Tom Slater, who began climbing in 1988 at Castle Rock State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains, has documented many of the first ascents going on there. He has been climbing in the Southern Yosemite area since 1996 and has dedicated the last six years to Shuteye Ridge alone to focus on first ascents and … READ MORE

Location: Round Table Pizza, 2065 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa Time & Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2014 @ 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. The Rock Ice & Mountain Club is pleased to have Chris Summit return and give us another awesome slideshow presentation on what he’s been up to in the last few years. If you follow his blog at http://summitorplummet.blogspot.com then you’ve seen a sample of his latest adventures. But here is a chance to see what is new in Bay Area bouldering and learn of some of the forgotten rocks of the North Bay. Chris’ stoke for climbing is contagious and his presentation is sure to get you out on our local rocks. Chris has been rock climbing for 25 years and teaching climbing for over 20 years. He has discovered a lot of previously unknown rocks around his hometown in Santa Rosa, CA and has done first ascents of some of … READ MORE

Location: Round Table Pizza, 2065 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa Time & Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 @ 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. An interactive presentation by Silke Fleischer and Eric Converse about touring from Switzerland to Nice, France with custom folding bicycles. 20 mile downhills, Tour de France climbs and stunning scenery. The spectacular Route des Grandes Alpes is a dream for every cyclist and offers a large variety of route options for unsupported touring trips combined with many hiking, mountaineering and rock climbing opportunities. Join our interactive presentation of our 2013 tour and get a unique insight into cycling from Bern in Switzerland, to the Mediterranean city of Nice in France – a trip of 1,600km over 10 passes and 60,000 feet of ascent. We’ll provide insider tips and tricks on route planning, room booking, local culture, food and more. Walk away with impressions of magnificent mountains and thrilling rides through narrow … READ MORE

Location: Round Table Pizza, 2065 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa Time & Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 @ 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. Rock Ice & Mountain Club founder, Harrison Hood, is a climbing instructor and itinerant dirt bag. He is an active climber and has been since 1987. His love for the sport has brought him to numerous climbing destinations. He is actively involved in the climbing community and volunteers for the American Alpine Club, the American Himalayan Foundation and the Yosemite based Facelift an annual park wide clean up organization. Over the years Harrison has been fortunate enough to travel the globe in pursuit of peaks to climb. Please join him as he takes us on his adventures to various countries like Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Europe, South America, Africa and of course the good ol’ USA. We’ll visit familiar peaks like McKinley, Mont Blanc, Kilimanjaro, Aspiring, Aconcogua, Elbrus, and rock climbing areas … READ MORE

Location: Round Table Pizza, 2065 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa Time & Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 @ 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. Chris Jones is a climbing icon. From pioneering new routes in England and Wales, to an early British ascent of the Walker Spur of the Grandes Jorasses, to climbing many long routes in Yosemite, the Sierra Nevada, the Canadian Rockies, Peru and Patagonia, Chris has about done it all. Steve Roper was to write: “His awesome routes in Canada are considered classics to this day.” In 1975 Chris’ “Climbing in North America” was published to wide acclaim. Today, Chris rock climbs as often as his schedule permits. He is a lot slower than he was, but he enjoys the challenge, the outdoors and the companionship just the same. While San Francisco raved through the summer of love, three rock climbers, a skier and a filmmaker struck out on their own journey. … READ MORE