These 2005-2006 White Pine Group Program/Meetings will be held in the large basement meeting room at US Bank, Kennedy at Wacker, by Kennedy Mall on Dubuque's West End on the fourth Tuesday of each month beginning at 7 PM. Each program is followed by a brief EXCOM meeting. Mark your activity calendar!
December 27, Tuesday
Nature Show and Tell program with cookies and other leftover or fresh, between-holiday treats and cocoa. Members, new and old, are invited to bring photos, photo albums, slides, artifacts (like a special rock, t-shirt, cap, book, story, food item, souvenir, dried leaf, grass-stained pair of jeans, whatever) related to travel or other adventure in the great out-of-doors near and far to show and tell about. A few already known items may include: White Pine Group Outing photo displays prepared for the Turkey Dinner; photos of recent hikes in Rocky Mountain National Park, New Mexico's Gila Wilderness, Tettegouche State Park on Lake Superior, Massachusetts on the Appalachian Trail to Mt. Greylock; rocks with natural holes in them suitable for necklaces; little stuffed bear that traveled in a backpack for a few weeks in Alaska; and other creative and exciting memorabilia. Come share a :) tale during this respite between holidays.
January 24, Tuesday
Denali National Park, Alaska From July 7 - 13, 2005, four members of the White Pine Group EXCOM camped and backpacked in Denali National Park. Slides and photo albums will supplement their stories about adventures such as fording the swollen Toklat River, watching a grizzly bear sniff its wear through their backcountry campsite along (Muldrow) Glacier Creek, waiting to witness the evacuation of a Spanish team of climbers stranded on an island in the swollen McKinley River, admiring alpine-glow views of Denali from a Wonder Lake campsite, and more.
February 28, Tuesday
Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska From July 15 - 24, 2005, the same four EXCOM members backpacked in Gates of the Arctic National Park with a guide and one other person. Highlights will include the float plane flight in to a small lake, tenting by a large lake, climbing to and crossing Peregrine Pass, finding Rams horns and wolf scat, tracing some of the exploration steps of Bob Marshall along Ernie Creek and the Koyukuk River, experiencing the difficult nature of backpacking on and among tussocks, climbing to the tops of several waterfalls, the nightly glow of a nearly midnight sun, and GPS use to help locate and then fly out from a gravel bar landing strip. Barb Cooey, Becky Reisch, Joe Garrity, and Dick Worm will describe the wonder of it all.
December 27, Tuesday
Nature Show and Tell program with cookies and other leftover or fresh, between-holiday treats and cocoa. Members, new and old, are invited to bring photos, photo albums, slides, artifacts (like a special rock, t-shirt, cap, book, story, food item, souvenir, dried leaf, grass-stained pair of jeans, whatever) related to travel or other adventure in the great out-of-doors near and far to show and tell about. A few already known items may include: White Pine Group Outing photo displays prepared for the Turkey Dinner; photos of recent hikes in Rocky Mountain National Park, New Mexico's Gila Wilderness, Tettegouche State Park on Lake Superior, Massachusetts on the Appalachian Trail to Mt. Greylock; rocks with natural holes in them suitable for necklaces; little stuffed bear that traveled in a backpack for a few weeks in Alaska; and other creative and exciting memorabilia. Come share a :) tale during this respite between holidays.
January 24, Tuesday
Denali National Park, Alaska From July 7 - 13, 2005, four members of the White Pine Group EXCOM camped and backpacked in Denali National Park. Slides and photo albums will supplement their stories about adventures such as fording the swollen Toklat River, watching a grizzly bear sniff its wear through their backcountry campsite along (Muldrow) Glacier Creek, waiting to witness the evacuation of a Spanish team of climbers stranded on an island in the swollen McKinley River, admiring alpine-glow views of Denali from a Wonder Lake campsite, and more.
February 28, Tuesday
Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska From July 15 - 24, 2005, the same four EXCOM members backpacked in Gates of the Arctic National Park with a guide and one other person. Highlights will include the float plane flight in to a small lake, tenting by a large lake, climbing to and crossing Peregrine Pass, finding Rams horns and wolf scat, tracing some of the exploration steps of Bob Marshall along Ernie Creek and the Koyukuk River, experiencing the difficult nature of backpacking on and among tussocks, climbing to the tops of several waterfalls, the nightly glow of a nearly midnight sun, and GPS use to help locate and then fly out from a gravel bar landing strip. Barb Cooey, Becky Reisch, Joe Garrity, and Dick Worm will describe the wonder of it all.