Chapter Meetings

October 2023: Summiting Mauna Kea in Hawaii (Danielle Lindblad)

October 1st, 2023|Comments Off on October 2023: Summiting Mauna Kea in Hawaii (Danielle Lindblad)

Summary of presentation: Hawaii is America's youngest state, legally and geographically. The archipelago is a volcanic island chain that is steadily growing to this day. In April 2023, Danielle hiked to the summit of Mauna [...]

May 2023: Climbing Uhuru Peak, aka Mt.Kilimanjaro (Erasmus Schneider)

May 1st, 2023|Comments Off on May 2023: Climbing Uhuru Peak, aka Mt.Kilimanjaro (Erasmus Schneider)

Summary of Presentation: In 2013, Erasmus completed a lifelong item on his bucket list, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro via the Machame Route. Starting in the original montane forest, the landscape gradually changes to volcanic rocks and [...]

February 2023: Travel to the South Pole (Dave Ross)

February 1st, 2023|Comments Off on February 2023: Travel to the South Pole (Dave Ross)

Summary of presentation: Sir Ernest Shackleton attempted to cross the Antarctic continent in 1914, leading the amazing and famous survival story Endurance. The first successful crossing of Antarctica was by vehicle in 1955-58 by Sir [...]