Join the Mountaineering Club of Alaska
The Mountaineering Club of Alaska is active in promoting conservation, protecting the environment, helping with trail maintenance in our parks and recreation areas, and in helping to preserve some of the mountaineering history and place names of Alaska.
What’s Included
Training.
MCA volunteers teach several schools a year, open to MCA members only. Basic Mountaineering School happens every winter and the Ice Climbing Festival is in the Fall. Often there are Rock Climbing classes, Crevasse Rescue Clinics and other classes of interest to mountaineers and outdoor enthusiasts
Trips.
MCA volunteer trip leaders have trips for a variety of interests and skill levels.
Scree.
The monthly newsletter of the MCA containing trip reports and detailed descriptions of mountains routes. You also get access to the Scree archive, over 50 years of climbing history and trip reports available nowhere else.
William Hauser's classic account of a cornice fall on top of Byron Peak. Hauser described the drama as "the genuine indifference of natural forces and the Promethean qualities of man against the odds."
— May 1967 Scree
Two articles by Brian Okonek, one describing his traverse of Goat Rock and another titled "Across the Grain", from his series "Some Climbs in the Alaska Range."
— January 1978 Scree
A wonderful 6 page poem written by Dave Johnston about a solo-March ascent of Mt. Sanford. Don't miss his illustration of "Bridgit" - a ski/sled creation for solo glacier travel. "To yodel in the valleys / sing on the mountain / and Bob on the tundra / quite unselfconsciously."
— June 1984 Scree
The MCA represents your interests in conservation and access to recreational land.
Mountaineering Club of Alaska Membership
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