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

Time & Date: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 @ 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 welcomes director Jeff Vargen as he presents the film “Assault on El Capitan”. Assault on El Capitan tells the story of the second ascent of Wings of Steel on Yosemite Valley’s El Capitan. Undoubtedly the most controversial climb in Yosemite history, Wings of Steel was first climbed in 1982 by Richard Jensen and Mark Smith. The team was slowed by death threats, sabotage, and assaults. After 39 days of climbing, they reached the summit. With questions about style, ethics and a general distrust of the first ascent team, Wings of Steel went unrepeated for 29 years.

Included in the film are Richard Jensen, Mark Smith, Ammon McNeely, Kait Barber, Ron Kauk, Hans Florine, Chris McNamara, Ken Yager, Eric Kohl, Gabe McNeely, Steve Grossman and Peter Haan.

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

Time & Date: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 @ 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.

Charlie Barrett is a native of Sonoma County, who relocated to the Mammoth area over thirteen years ago. Relocating to Mammoth has allowed Charlie to be centrally located to Tuolumne Meadows, the Bishop region, the High Sierra and all of the wonderful crags and bouldering areas around Mammoth and June Lake. As an Asana sponsored athlete, Charlie has already made his mark with first ascents of many boulder problems and rock climbs in the region.

His foray into guidebook authoring came naturally as one day Charlie and a few friends were bouldering at a new area called Hartley Springs and they all agreed that the area needed a guidebook. After calling some long time locals and asking permission to do the guidebook everyone OK’ed the idea. The guide took about a year of work and came out in September of 2012. We are excited to have Charlie back to the Rock Ice & Mountain Club and he is psyched to show off some pictures of the area and get people stoked on the amazing bouldering and climbing around Mammoth!

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

Time & Date: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 @ 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.

Giovanni Traversi, a Sonoma County native, has a true passion for travelling the world, climbing boulders and experiencing new things. He has recently developed an interest in filmmaking and has just finished his first film entitled “Paradise”, featuring bouldering on the beautiful Sonoma Coast. The film captures Giovanni’s life as a rock climber and will showcase areas like Salt Point State Park and Cazadero, home to some of the hardest boulder problems in Sonoma County. Some of the boulder problems showcased include the second ascent of Stoney White Boots Johnson (V7r/x) and Fear of the Inevitable (V7r).

Giovanni will give us some teasers of the film and will be showing the premiere of the film at Vertex Climbing Center in Santa Rosa on August 17. He will also show us pictures from his recent travels to world class bouldering areas like Fountainbleu and Switzerland. Giovanni is sponsored by FiveTen, Adidas Outdoor, and Revolution Climbing.

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

Time & Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 @ 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.

Todd Offenbacher will grace us with his presence as he lectures on the seriousness of climbing and skiing. Todd, the man behind the Tahoe Adventure Film Festival, has a long and impressive climbing and skiing resume that will put most to shame. Hailing from South Lake Tahoe, it seems like Todd has done it all, from first ascents in the Bugaboo’s, Peru and Pakistan, to big wall solos, to getting as many ski days as he can.

Todd’s presentation will feature the 2011 season of rock climbing with climbing legends Tommy Caldwell and Hayden Kennedy in the Arctic Circle Brooks Range for a first ascent, to skiing in the Antarctic for first descents, and his recent ski trip to Spitsbergen in the Svalbard region of Norway. The presentation will also include highlights from smoking hash with the Taliban of Pakistan, red pointing a 5.7 at Lovers Leap, as well as his try out for the Washington Redskins. Be prepared to take notes and to laugh.

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

Time & Date: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 @ 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.

Mingmar Sherpa is a Nepalese mountaineer, mountain guide and television journalist. He has summited Mount Everest 4 times and was the first person to climb Mt. Naipaigusum in 2006 on the occasion of the 50th year diplomatic relation between Nepal and Japan. Mingmar has worked with the IMAX Everest expedition team where he guided Michael Palin for a BBC documentary and worked with David Breashears on the film “Storm Over Everest” which recounted the dramatic events of the tragic 1996 climbing season. He is also the team leader for “Saving Mount Everest 2011”, which is a Mount Everest cleaning expedition. Mingmar will present dramatic photographs of trekking and mountaineering from the Everest region and present a short video on the 2011 Everest Cleaning campaign.

For anyone wanting to go trekking and mountaineering in Nepal, here is Mingmar’s contact information.

[email protected]
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http://megaadventuresintl.com

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

Time & Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 @ 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.

Dean Fleming started climbing in the small central Sierra town of Sonora, CA at the age of 10. “Growing up in Sonora has provided some pretty strange life events, but also a wealth of adventurous climbing opportunities”. Dean’s first real rock climb was an onsight, ground up first ascent of a 5.6 crack near the summit of Sonora Pass.

Dean’s presentation will highlight the strange experience of living and growing up around the Mother Lode town of Sonora, CA, and also present the great wealth of climbing and adventure that can be found in this region.

Visit his blog at http://deanfleming.wordpress.com

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

Time & Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 @ 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.

Vitaliy Musiyenko is a young and motivated climber and mountaineer from San Francisco. “Since my first trip to Eastern Sierra to climb Mt. Whitney in early 2010, I developed an addiction to climbing rock, ice, and exploring the outdoors”. For such a short time in this game, Vitaliy has a pretty impressive checklist including completing the Sierra Challenge, Mt. Denali, first ascent of The Fortress via Siege (IV 5.10c A0), winter ascent of Mithril Dihedral (III 5.10) on Mt. Russell, the Beckey Chouinard on South Howser Tower, Cleopatra’s Needle WI5, North Ridge of Mt. Stuart in a day and most recently Lurking Fear on El Capitan (VI 5.7 C2).

Check out his blog at
http://vividrea1ity.blogspot.com

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

Time & Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 @ 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.

Dan Mazur, a nine time Mount Everest leader and rescuer of Lincoln Hall, the world famous “Left for Dead” climber at the summit of Everest, along with Samantha “Squash” Falconer, the famous motorcyclist, parachutist and Everest summiter, will give an exciting presentation as a charity fundraiser for the Mount Everest Foundation for Sustainable Development. The fund raising will provide much needed new and used climbing and trekking equipment and clothing for the New Sherpa Training School. They will be showing beautiful photos and “edge of your seat” action videos telling exciting stories of the climbs, mountains, environments and people they meet.

The Rock Ice & Mountain Club is pleased to bring Dan and Squash to Santa Rosa and help them with their fundraising efforts. Please come to the meeting with some cash to donate to this great cause.

For more information go to
http://www.FundraisingLectures.org

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

Time & Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 @ 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.

Dean “Bullwinkle” Fidelman returns to the Rock Ice & Mountain Club to give us a sneak peek of photos from his new book, The Iron Age: The Birth of Yosemite Bill Walls. Dean will also show us images from The Valley Climbers: Yosemite’s Vertical Revolution which is about free climbing the big walls of Yosemite. In addition, we’ll hear a reading of The Only Blasphemy by John Long. Last but not least, we’ll get a quick look at this years StoneNudes.