Location: Round Table Pizza, 2065 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa
Time & Date: Tuesday, Feb 1st, 2011 @ 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 McNamara is arguably one of the most influential Northern California climbers today. His big wall climbing career began as a young teenager and he quickly amassed an incredible resume of hard and fast ascents in Yosemite and Zion. From those experiences he launched the very successful SuperTopo brand which publishes popular climbing guide books and has one of the most viewed rock climbing websites on the internet. After having clipped hundreds of bad bolts he founded the American Safe Climbing Association whose goal is to return classic climbing routes to their original danger level by replacing deteriorating old fixed anchors, usually bolts, with modern camouflaged gear. The ASCA has replaced over 6000 bolts in popular climbing areas across the West.
Recently Chris got into BASE jumping from the world’s tallest cliffs with a wing suit and an HD helmet cam. On February 1st will be sharing footage of both the heart stopping jumps and his climbing exploits with the Rock Ice Mountain Club. All proceeds from our raffle this month will go directly to the ASCA to help with bolt replacement at our local North Bay crags. Chris will have copies of his recent SuperTopo titles as well as the Book of BASE (Matt Gerdes with sections by Chris McNamara, Steph Davis, and Dean Potter) which details the technical and ethical evolution of the sport of BASE jumping.
