Time & Date: Tuesday, May 1st, 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.
Gus Benner, an early San Francisco Bay Area climber, grew up in Berkeley and started climbing in his teens on Sierra Club trips to Mt. Darwin and North Palisade and at Pinnacles and the historic Indian Rock. Brad Washburn’s article on new Alaskan routes in the AAJ was what lured Gus to the east ridge of Denali in 1969. Gus has climbed around the world in places like Mt. St. Elias, Mt. Kenya, Mt. Cook, Mt. Waddington and the Brooks Range, but his most memorable climb was the the west rib of the south face of Denali with his two sons. Gus is currently practicing Family Medicine in Berkeley. Please join the RIM Club and Gus has he presents photos and tells tales of his first ascent of Denali’s East Ridge.
