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

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 part in this event. If you have not received an Evite from the RIM Club, please check your email’s junk folder. If it is not there, please go to the front page of our website at http://www.rockicemountain.org/, hit the Contact US tab on the far right and send us an email letting us you want to attend. We’d be happy to send you an invitation.

We would also like to collect as many member photos as we can to have a running slideshow of all of our members adventures over the years. Please email your photos to Darren at [email protected]. This is a free event and our way to thank YOU for being part of this awesome local organization. Please carpool as there is limited parking at the event.

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 Southern Utah. Some of his climbs include:

Mark Thomas will be presenting two shorter presentations of some unique and highly recommended outdoor adventuring: First, he will take us along on his 2008 month long trip cycling solo across western Canada, hiking and bagging peaks along the way. Next, he will share photos and stories of a possible first winter ascent of the East Ridge of Mt Carl Heller in 2011. Both trips were great, challenging, and aesthetic outings, that started off as crazy ideas. For both trips Mark had trouble finding anyone interested in attempting them, yet they turned out to be some of his most memorable outings. While they may not have been trips that are popularly regarded or commonly done, and certainly not a ’50 classics’ or ‘SuperTopo list’ trip, they were every bit as classic.

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.

A photographer and freelance writer, Tom has published dozens of photos and articles about Shuteye Ridge in Rock and Ice magazine, Climbing magazine, and Sierra Heritage. He has also written several guidebooks for various climbing areas in California including California Central Coast Climbs: San Luis Obispo, California Road Trip: Northern California Climbers Guide (co-author Chris Summit), and Tollhouse Rock (co-author Dwight Kroll) among others. Tom’s slide show presentation will showcase the climbing at Shuteye Ridge. He will share some of the history behind the ascents, climbers, and areas of Shuteye Ridge. He will also have many of his guidebooks available for sale at discount prices. His website is www.slatervision.com

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 the best and toughest climbs in the North Bay Area. Chris is a guidebook author for Supertopo, a product tester for Outdoor Gearlab, a climbing instructor at the Airport Health Club in Santa Rosa and a personal trainer.

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.

This inspiring presentation is brought to you by Eric and Silke have cycled through Europe 4 times. Their remote small business gives them the freedom to work from anywhere in the world and explore exciting cycling and hiking routes each summer.

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 like Smith Rock, Yosemite, Moab, Joshua Tree and the Eastern Sierra.

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.

Chris will read excerpts from his recently published book, Climbing Fitz Roy 1968 and show the movie “Fitz Roy First Ascent of the Southwest Buttress”. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Location: Round Table Pizza, 2065 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa

Time & Date: Tuesday, February 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.

Why do people climb mountains? Because it gets us high! Doug’s long-awaited book, The Alchemy of Action, offers a fresh – even shocking – explanation of why people climb mountains, by delving into the brain chemistry behind climber’s euphoria. The intriguing story behind why we are so much more than “adrenaline junkies” leads deep into the psyches of all adventure athletes as they push toward the ragged edge of human potential and return with shimmering new awareness from a heady brew of hormonal cocktail that includes the surprising ingredients of home-made organic psychedelic compounds.

Doug Robinson is a professional mountaineer known internationally for his climbing, guiding and ski mountaineering, as well as his poetic writings about the mountains and why we climb them. Closely identified with California’s High Sierra, Doug has been called “The Modern John Muir.” We are honored to have Doug back to give a presentation to our club.

Sonoma County’s Rock Ice & Mountain Club welcomes Todd Offenbacher and the Tahoe Adventure Film Festival Road Tour on January 10, 2014 at the Mystic Theater in Petaluma.

PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA – The Rock Ice & Mountain Club is pleased to host the Tahoe Adventure Film Festival at the historic Mystic Theatre. Designed to capture the intensity and passion of adventure, the Tahoe Adventure Film Festival is a perfect summary of California’s outdoor culture. The festival’s eight short films will showcase segments from the best skiing, rock climbing, skate boarding, surfing, cycling, snow boarding, and BASE jumping films of the year.

The show begins the minute the doors open at 6:30 p.m. Dramatic action photos by Tahoe’s Keoki Flagg from, Tahoe, Antarctica, and Alaska flashes on the big screen while music pumps up the crowd. The main event begins at 7:30 p.m. Many of the segments are special edits including previews of films that have not been released. During intermission and after the event we’ll be giving away gear and prizes from our sponsors. The party continues after the event at neighboring McNears Saloon.

“This is one night to see the progression in the best action and adventure sports films of the year and learn about new developing sports,” says Todd Offenbacher, founder and event host, world adventurer and popular host for Outside Television. “We put together a line-up of the best films from around the world and showcase them in one night of energy, excitement and fun that appeals to all audiences.”

This year marks the second annual North Bay stop of the Tahoe Adventure Film Festival Road Tour event at the historic Mystic Theatre in downtown Petaluma. Proceeds support Sonoma County’s Rock Ice & Mountain Club. Advance ticket purchases are encouraged and are $15.

Tickets can be purchased in person at Sonoma Outfitters in Santa Rosa (cash only) and at the Mystic Theatre ticket office, by calling 707-765-2121 or at www.mystictheatre.com. For more information visit www.LakeTahoeFilmFestival.com.