Presenter: 2025 MCA Calendar Winners
Topics: Stories behind the photos

We are planning to have 2025 calendars for sale at a special meeting price of $15. Please bring cash. They will be available for purchase after the meeting for $20 each and will be sold in local shops throughout Anchorage, AK.

Presenter: Jane Lockshin
Topic: Minty Fresh: An Overview of the MCA's 2024 Mountaineering Course

Creek Cleanup is an annual Anchorage event held every May. Hundreds of volunteers throughout Anchorage put on boots and gloves or go out in canoes and kayaks to clean tons of trash from local streams and waterways. This effort improves habitat for fish and other critters and helps humans thrive too!

Marcin Ksok is again hosting the MCA's group for the Chester Creek clean-up. If you are looking to join a group for the Anchorage Creek Cleanup, this is the group for you. Also a great way to support MCA's good reputation in the community.

When: 6pm Thursday May 23rd
Where: meet at 1836 Rosemary St, Airport Heights
Bring: Waders, gloves, bug repellant, rubber boots will do fine for the shore walkers.

Marcin can be contacted at 928-380-2995 or marcinksok@netscape.net.

Presenter: Lane Christenson

Topic: Bashful Peak Winter Ascent

Presenter: Kelly Kropko

Topic: Major Accidents in Climbing, Biking, Surfing and Pack Rafting

Presenter: Joe Stock

Topic: An Instructional Overview of the Avalanche Avoidance System and more!

Presenters Allie Heaslet and Paxson Woelber.

Please join us for our monthly membership meeting at the BP Energy Center. Due to availability of the Birch Room, the November meeting has been scheduled for first Thursday of the month instead of the first Wednesday of the month. Thank you for understanding. During the meeting, members will have the opportunity to meet with other members and learn about the latest MCA news and hear from our presenter.

You can also attend remotely. Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 836 7470 6360
Passcode: 033973

Due to availability of the Birch Room, the October meeting has been scheduled for first Thursday of the month instead of the first Wednesday of the month. Thank you for understanding.

Please join us for our monthly membership meeting at the BP Energy Center. During the meeting, members will have the opportunity to meet with other members, learn about the latest MCA news, and hear from our 2024 Calendar Photo Contest winners. Currently, we plan to have calendars available for purchase at a special meeting price during the October meeting. After the meeting, calendars will be available for purchase at local shops throughout Anchorage.

Please join us for our monthly membership meeting at the BP Energy Center. During the meeting, members will have the opportunity to meet with other members, learn about the latest MCA news, and hear from our presenter.

Save the date and join the MCA for a fun day in Palmer, AK. We will be hiking one of Palmers great day hikes with an après-hike at the Palmer Ale House. Already have day plans? Then join us for the evening at the Ale House. There will be live music by the Eternal Cowboys beginning at 7PM.

More details to come!

Join us for our annual Summer Solstice hike up Flattop Mountain. First group will leave the parking lot around 6pm but please venture up whenever you can. There will be a group up there all night! We’ll see you at the top for a beverage, snack, and a view.

Join the MCA as we give back to the community during the annual City Wide Clean Up. We will be cleaning up a section of Chester Creek from Wesleyan to Boniface. Please bring gloves, waders and or rubber boots. We will meet at 1836 Rosemany St. Anchorage, AK at 8:45AM.

A special thank you to Marcine Ksok for helping organize the clean up!

Please join us for our monthly membership meeting at the BP Energy Center. During the meeting, members will have the opportunity to meet with other members, learn about the latest MCA news, and hear from this month’s presenter, Gerrit Verbeek.

Presentation: "Choss Lore - Mental Exploration of Alaska's Backcountry"

The names of the peaks, rivers, and other geographic features around us have a huge influence on how we think about them. Consider how different Alaska would feel if "Cook Inlet" was called "Sandwich Sound" (its first English name), how different it feels to climb "Peril Peak" versus "Boy Scout Rock," or how some names seize your attention the moment you first hear them and draw you to explore a particular area. Each name has a story behind it, but those stories are frequently buried or hidden. Choss Lore is a project to track down and collect the stories behind geographic place names in southcentral Alaska.

On March 27th starting at 5:30 p.m. the MCA has organized a lecture by Arlene Blum at the Bear Tooth Theater in Anchorage. Among many lifetime accomplishments, Arlene was part of the first all-women expedition to summit Denali in 1970 and led the first group of Americans to climb Annapurna in 1978 (also all women). She also has a successful career as a scientist and advocate, and her presentation will blend highlights from all of those passions. Tickets and more details can be found here: https://beartooththeatre.filmbot.com/movies/breaking-trail-mountains-and-molecules/

Please join us for our monthly membership meeting at the BP Energy Center. During the meeting, members will have the opportunity to meet with other members, learn about the latest MCA news, and hear from our presenter. Due to availability of the BP Energy Center, the March Membership meeting will be on Thursday, March 2.

Presentation: Backcountry paragliding, with Bryan Friedrichs and Nate McClure
"We (Bryan and Nate) aim to provide an overview of recent adventure paragliding activity in Southcentral Alaska. In particular, where paragliders can be used as a tool to access, descend, and explore our local mountain ranges. We'll focus on a couple of flights carried out by members of the local community in a selection of different paragliding disciplines, and give a brief introduction into how one might get started in the sport, and the future possibilities opened up by modern gear."

The February Mountaineering Club of Alaska meeting will feature a slideshow by Clint Helander, who will share photos, videos and stories on his banner 2022 Alaska Range season, which included the first ascent of Golgotha's East Face and Full Moon Fever on 14,573' Mount Hunter.

Golgotha (8,940'), located in the distant Revelation Mountains, had been a 14 year dream. He and Andres Marin finally succeeded on their route "The Shaft of the Abyss" on their fifth attempt after repeated failures and nearly being killed by an avalanche in base camp 2016. Helander made the first ascent of the mountain in 2012 with Ben Trocki.

Helander and August Franzen completed their completely independent new route on Mount Hunter in May 2022, which included a rare traverse of the entire summit massif and all three summits. The team first attempted the route in 2021, when Helander took a 25-foot crevasse fall.

This will be a fundraiser for both the MCA huts and the American Alpine Club Snowbird Hut. Alaska Mountaineering and Hiking, The Hoarding Marmot and others have donated items for a silent auction.

This event will also be live-streamed online at https://us02web.zoom.us/s/83674706360?pwd=VUY4VElyVEpqc2xmN29BbG1OKzR3dz09

Please join us for our monthly membership meeting at the BP Energy Center, Birch Room. This month we will be voting on the 2023 budget and discussing other important Club information. Brian Miskill will present on his 1975 attempted ascent of the French Ridge and the first winter ascent via the Southeast Ridge of Mt. Foraker.

Due to availability of the BP Energy Center, this month’s meeting will take place on the SECOND Wednesday of the month.
We hope to see you there!

The MCA Christmas Party is back! So, grab those holiday sweaters and join us for pizza and a good time. The Christmas Party will serve in place of the December General Membership Meeting. (There will be no meeting December 7th.)

There will also be a limited number of calendars for sale at $14 a piece. Cash and check only.
We can’t wait to see you there!

This month’s meeting will highlight two presenters. The MCA is pleased to welcome Dane Ketner, Chris Maus, and Charlie Procknow as they share a recent trip report from Mt. Saint Elias “A Lesson in Humility and Fragility in the High Mountains” and Dr. Matthew Sturm as he shares “The 30,000 Kilometer Mountain, Snow Travels and Studies in Arctic Alaska”.

The MCA would like to extend a special thank you to Dr. Matthew Sturm for traveling from Fairbanks to attend the meeting in-person. Thank you!

Where: BP Energy Center : 1014 Energy Ct, Anchorage, AK 99508

Please join us for our monthly membership meeting at the BP Energy Center. During the October meeting, members will have the opportunity to meet with other members, learn about the latest MCA news, vote on upcoming Board Elections (Vice President, Secretary, and 3 Director seats) and hear from our 2023 MCA Calendar winners. We are planning to have a limited number of 2023 calendars available for purchase at $14 each. Please bring cash or check as we will be unable to process credit cards. Thank you for understanding. (Calendars will be available to purchase at AMH and other outdoor retail shops after the meeting for $16 each.)
We hope to see you at the meeting!