The Rock Ice & Mountain Club is excited to bring the Tahoe Adventure Film Festival to the Mystic Theatre on Friday, February 1, 2013. Please tell your friends and family and come out to what will be an awesome event with eight incredible short films and a product raffle. Go to http://mystictheatre.com to purchase advanced tickets. You can also get tickets at the Mystic Theatre before and at the day of the event.

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

Time & Date: Tuesday, December 4, 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.

Tom McMillan started climbing at the young age of 14 and in the 11th grade, he hitch hiked across the country to Yosemite. By the age of 18, he had climbed two routes on El Capitan. Living in California for many years now, Tom continues to enjoy the route-finding and logistical challenges of climbing big walls in Yosemite Valley, including some of the longest and most difficult routes. Tom has also made numerous climbing expeditions to South America, the Alps, Alaska, Pakistan, Napal, Tibet and Xinjiang.

On May 16, 2004, Tom reached the summit of Mt. Everest with his friend and climbing partner Nawang Sherpa. Tom helped Nawang to get an artificial leg at UCSF in San Francisco after he lost his leg in 2000 due to a motorcycle accident in Kathmandu. When Tom had a chance to climb Everest, he invited Nawang, who became the first person with an artificial leg to climb Mt. Everest. Tom will be presenting a slideshow and videos of some of his more memorable alpine summits and accomplishments.

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

Time & Date: Tuesday, November 6, 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.

Grant Ordelheide is a photography student at Pacific Union College who spent several months in 2011 as part of a NOLS mountaineering and sea kayaking trip to Patagonia and Peru. Grant captured some incredible photographs from this trip that he will show along with stories from his adventures.

Growing up in the Colorado Rockies, Grant’s love of nature long preceded his love of photography. Being part of a family that appreciated and explored the outdoors helped Grant learn to appreciate and enjoy the landscape. Today he spends as much time as he can in nature though hiking, backpacking, climbing, and snowboarding. He enjoys traveling to new and exotic locations, especially to new mountain ranges. “Photography is really just a by-product of spending so much time in nature. I think that spending time in the wilderness is just about the best thing one can do. I find a deep spirituality in nature and I hope for it to become evident in my photography”.

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

Time & Date: Tuesday, October 2, 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.

Jim Thornburg returns to the Rock Ice & Mountain Club to show us his amazing photographs of our local rock climbing crags in the San Francisco Bay Area. Often underratted, our local rocks provide some of the most diverse types of rock and locations. Jim’s long awaited rock climbing guidebook, Bay Area Rock, will showcase these unique climbing areas, divulge new areas and routes and provide lots of eye candy. The guidebook is 328 pages with full color photos with accurate maps and descriptions. Jim will have copies of the guidebook for sale at the presentation. Jim will also show us some of his latest photo shoots and adventures.

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

Time & Date: Tuesday, September 4, 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.

Every year, hundreds of hopeful climbers enter the contest to become Yosemite’s Next Top Idol. In 2001, James Lucas left his Vermont life for the tall walls of the National Park. Armed with 50 feet of webbing and grand plans to top rope El Capitan, Lucas fumbled his way into becoming Yosemite’s Next Top Idol. From surviving a 100 foot free solo fall in Joshua Tree to establishing a Grade V 5.13 free route on Washington Column, Lucas tells the highly entertaining story of becoming the Ferror Rocher of Yosemite dirtbags. John Long said, “In many ways, James is an incarnation of the Stonemasters of old”. Lucas’ writing have appeared in Alpinist, Climbing, Rock & Ice, California Climber and other outdoor adventure periodicals. Join the Rock Ice & Mountain Club for this unbelievable presentation….but don’t believe every word you hear.

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

Time & Date: Tuesday, August 7, 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.

Yosemite climbing pioneer, Allen Steck, will be showing a film that Steve Roper, Dick Long and Allen made during their ascent of the Salathe Wall in 1966. It was the third ascent of the route which was originally done in 1962 by Royal Robbins, Chuck Pratt and Tom Frost who made the first and second ascents.

Allen, an Oakland, California native, began climbing in Yosemite Valley in 1947, initially learning the use of pitons by trial and error. He said that at that time, there “was no body of people who could help you learn these things.” He has been a Life Member of the Sierra Club since 1947.

Allen, along with Steve Roper, has been the long-time editor of the mountaineering journal Ascent, which was originally published by the Sierra Club and later by the American Alpine Club. Steck and Roper also wrote the book Fifty Classic Climbs of North America, first published in 1979.

photo credit: Dan McDevitt