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The Washington Alpine Club
established 1916
LATEST POSTINGS
Announcements
WAC Technical T's are here! | Summer TeleCamp June 26/29 | San Juan Island Bicycle Ramble, May 17-18 | Spring MOFA Instructor Course starts May 10! | Annual Olympic Beach Cleanup 04/26! | view all | add
 
Trip Reports
Silver Peak still snowy | Static Point – or how I learned to quit worrying and stick my butt out on the slab | The post-it note: Colchuck Balanced Rock/Girth Pillar/Thin Red Line | view all | add


WHAT'S NEW

Join the Washington Alpine Club!

 

We offer members a wide variety of classes, conservation, leadership, fun, and fellowship opportunities. Small and intimate, grassroots, community based, with a ridiculous inexpensive membership fee, we've always been, and still are 100% volunteers and people just like you! Apply now... 

 

WAC Full Moon Summer Party Aug 16!

 

A Snow Dinner in the summer! Come up and ride, hike, or climb. Stay overnight, or drop in for the day. We'll have a potluck lunch at 1 pm and and potluck dinner at 6 pm. Open House all day. Want to help?

 

Guye Cabin Work Parties - August 09!

 

We will have monthly Saturday work parties at the Cabin. There are several small inside projects and a lot of outside work to do. Chain saws needed. Lots of wood to split. This is the perfect chance to combine a day climbing, hiking or bike riding and enjoy Guye Cabin in the summer. Come for the day Sat or stay the entire weekend. Contact Mike Mahanay to rsvp or for more information.

 

The Last Polar Bear at the Burke Museum

 

On June 28, the Burke Museum opens The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World, a powerful photography exhibit documenting the polar bear in its disappearing artic habitat. See more than 40 heartwarming photographs by environmental photographer Steven Kazlowski, who spent nearly a decade in this remote and delicate region. The exhibit will also include Northwest filmmaker Arthur C. Smith, Ice Bears of the Beaufort, a short documentary that provides a portrait of polar bear behavior. The Last Polar Bear runs through Dec 31 , 2008. More info at:
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/exhibits/details.php?ID=67&type=upcoming

 

 WAC members and their guests have a special 2 for 1 admission with the coupon in the WAC monthly Bulletin.

 

Upcoming Important Dates

July 19 > WTA TrailsFest

 

August 09 > Guye Cabin Work Party

August 16 > Full Moon Summer Party

August 23/24 > Cascade Crest 100 Ulta

 

Sept 06/07 > ICO Train the Trainer

Sept 13 > Cabin Work Party

Sept 27/28 > Cabin event

 

October 18 > Fall Cabin Work Party
October 19 > Annual Meeting

 

November 01/02 > MOFA Class (tentative)

November 08/09 > MOFA Class (tentative)
Quick Links

Here:
- Bulletin
- Calendar
- Announcements
- Photos
- Trip Reports
- Classes

Applications:
- WAC Membership
- Backcountry Class
- Basic Climbing Class
- First Aid Classes
- Telemark Class

For Members Only:
- Photo Roster
- WAC Email List
- Membership List
- Change Your Info

Weather:
- NWAC Forecasts
Avalanche
Weather
Monitors

- NWS Forecast
- UW Forecasts
- Ferry Winds
- BC Forecast

Snow Conditions:
- Mt. Baker
- Crystal Mtn
- Snoqualmie Pass
- Stevens Pass
- Mission Ridge
- Loup Loup Bowl
- Mt Spokane
- Bluewood
- White Pass
- Timberline
- Mt. Bachelor
- Whistler

Other:
- Mountaineers
- Cascade Climbers
- Stone Gardens
- Vertical World
- Obsidians
- Santiam Alpine Club
- Cascadians

Conservation:
-WA Trails Assoc
-Bicycle Alliance of WA
-Access Fund
-Wild WA Campaign
-Nature Conservatory
-Conservation NW
-Cascade Land Conservatory
-Audubon WA

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