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Founded circa 1950; 0% fatality rate since May 2007.

02/13/2024

Mark your calendars!! Banff Film Festival will be held on March 5th!!

6pm: Reception on Beckman Mall with sponsor tables, music, socializing, and free beverages and snacks
7pm: Showtime in Beckman Auditorium. The show will run ~2.5 hours and have an intermission with huge raffle prizes!

Tickets: $10/student, $20/non-student. Students with valid student ID may purchase up to two tickets at $10 each.
Tickets can be purchased either (1) in-person at the Caltech ticket office from 10am-4pm Monday-Friday (if you do this you won’t have to wait in line to pick up your tickets on show night!), (2) over the phone by calling the Ticket office at 626-395-4652 (you may need to leave a message), (3) at the Beckman Auditorium box office (outside the auditorium on the west side) after 5pm on show day, or (4) online here (non-student rate only), link in Bio.
See you all March 5th!!!

11/16/2023

**Room has changed to the Rock Auditorium in Broad Room 100**

Adventure Awaits! Join us THUR November 16 [7:30pm] at the Caltech Beckman Institute Auditorium for a riveting seminar on the gorgeous Dolomites of Italy, from ’s very own . 🇮🇹🏔️

1200 E. Colorado
Pasadena, CA.

Free food and drinks after the show.

07/21/2023

Limited number of tickets available for Caltech Alpine Club members! Use your caltech.edu email address!! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lynn- hill-fundamentals-of-climbing-first-free-ascent-of-the-nose-el-cap-tickets-675421843917?aff=oddtdtcreator.

06/02/2023

Our last talk of the season was epic! Ryan's journey through the Sierra Nevada and beyond. He will lead us on a challenging new bicycle route involving the hardest climbs and best descents. Pushing deeper into the mind and soul, exploring the flow state, and spending time with loved ones. 1,900 miles and around 140,000 ft of climbing in about 20 days.

When: May 18th 2023 at 7pm
Where: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Free Pizza and Beverages after the talk

05/03/2023

Snow mountaineering course 2023 was a blast. Thanks to , our guides Tyler and Mijo for all their help and patience to train us in this terrain. We reviewed snow travel skills, basics of avalanche rescue, snow camped and climbed the beautiful Crystal Crag.

04/28/2023

Zoom only event!! May 4th, 2023 at 7pm.
https://caltech.zoom.us/j/88942449924

WINNER: 2016 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature

WINNER: Mountain Literature Award, 2016 Banff Mountain Book Competition

Simon McCartney was a cocky young British alpinist climbing many of the hardest routes in the Alps during the late seventies, but it was a chance meeting in Chamonix in 1977 with Californian 'Stonemaster' Jack Roberts that would dramatically change both their lives and almost end Simon's.

04/19/2023

Come join us April 20th at 7:30pm to hear about Canyoneering in Southern California by Micheal Tran, Tiffany Helgestad and Jesse Johnson. They will tell us about this adventurous outdoor activity that combines route finding, repelling, problem solving, swimming and hiking. Canyoneering primer: a brief introduction to sport of rappelling down canyons, including the techniques, equipment, and challenges unique to the sport and review of routes both local and iconic to the Canyoneering community.

When: April 20th, 2023 at 7:30pm
Where: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Free Pizza and Beverages after the talk

04/17/2023

Alpine club members helped with some trail maintenance in the San gabes this weekend! The torrential rain lately has been wrecking our beloved trails. Here you can see the section of the Mount Wilson trail we worked on, where fallen trees had dragged about 3 feet of dirt over the trail. We lowered the surface back down to the original level and reinforced the sides with natural features!
Big thanks to the Sierra Madre Trails Crew for having us. Come join us next time and show some love to the local trails!

03/31/2023

Join us for a night of exploring what happens when science and outdoors meet! Jose will take us on an incredible journey through breathtaking photos and videos, sharing the story of a group of scientists who ventured to the most remote and harsh continent on Earth: Antarctica. Their mission was to build and launch a large far-infared telelescope from the bottom of the world, surrounded by ice and extreme cold, to study our galaxy and other galaxies from the stratosphere. Along the way, they also had the opportunity to hike every day in one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Don’t miss this amazing adventure!

03/23/2023

Join us for a night where Emily () will tell to us about her journey in the outdoors and how she wrote a book about it! She will focus on human resilience, the importance of doing big scary things, and how home isn’t a point on a map, but a place inside ourselves. But we’re going together there by talking about epic adventures in Grand Canyon, Gates of the Arctic, and Hawaii Volcanoes.

03/03/2023

Are you looking for backup communications while out in the wild? How about having fun with that equipment while learning to use it effectively? We have a solution for you.

Summits on the Air or SOTA promotes operating radio on mountain peaks. A radio amateur in Scotland, John Linford created the program in 2002. Today there are associations throughout the world and many thousands of participants. Amateur radio also plays an important role in emergency communications outside the typical modern infrastructure. We will explain how.

02/20/2023

SCMA member Madeleine learned to trad climb in 2017 with the goal of pursuing alpine and mountaineering objectives. She will give a presentation on getting into climbing, trip planning, and pictures for one alpine climbing adventure and one misadventure! She will talk about a perfect climbing day on the Arête des Cosmiques in Chamonix, and what happens when weather moves in on an ascent of Clyde Minaret in the High Sierra. When: Feb 23 at 7:30pm
Where: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Zoom: 825 2250 9390

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Sierra Madre, CA
91024, 91025

Website

http://alpine.caltech.edu/

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