No snow for shoeing Saturday
There isn't even total ground cover at New Germany State Park in Garrett County, Maryland, and it's closed to skiing. So the Saturday, Jan. 26 snowshoe outing is postponed. We want to do it when conditions permit.
Questions? E-mail Dan McQueen at danielfmcq...
Trip Report: Hike on Old Rag Mountain
Nicholas Seaman, Uriah Simonton, Sarah Beth Cassel, Rodney Whitman and Dan McQueen hiked Old Rag Mountain in Shenandoah National Park on Saturday, Nov. 3. Nic and Uriah came with full packs of climbing gear as a climbing guidebook said there is some of th...
Trip Report: Hike up Big Schloss
By DAN McQUEEN
Chapter co-coordinator
Saturday, Nov. 24 — At 6:36 a.m., with the temperature hovering at 26 degrees and a good breeze, Andrew Pendergast from Calvary Community Church and Dan McQueen drove west for two hours and 10 minutes to th...
Hot-dogging it on Engineer Mountain
By Michael Wall
Western Slope chapter coordinator
Engineer Mountain Climb: Classic hike/climb, Saturday, July 23
Ascending the Engineer.
The team all met up early the morning of the climb in the La Plata County Fairgrounds parking lo...
Prayer Peaks Day
Western Slope Chapter coordinator Mike Wall reported: “Great Prayer Peaks hike (on Hogsback Mountain outside Durango on Saturday, July 2), but man was it hot! Thankfully, Dairy Queen is on the way home!”
Going to extremes for Haiti
Facing avalanche danger, members of the Colorado Front Range Chapter participating in an extreme CLIMBATHON event, cut short the “24 Hours of Torreys” on Saturday, June 20.
The plan for the “24 Hours of Torreys” had been ascents up th...
Fall (or is it a winter?) climb
We'd like to take a group climbing on Saturday, Oct. 24. Contact Josh Carroll at frontrangec4c@hotmail.com with suggestions for a peak and if you want to come along.
$4 on the 4th
There will be a FourBucks Fundraiser on the 4th of every month. Skip your specialty coffee drink and give it to Climbing For Christ. Let's see how much we can do with this caffeinated money on Saturday, July 4.
Mini-Mission: Haiti
Three Climbing For Christ members from the Front Range Chapter — Josh Carroll, Justin Lee and Dr. Steve Quakenbush — made a special trip to the Dominican Republic from March 27-30 to deliver medical supplies and other goods to missionary Miguel Rubén Gua...
Winter Climb
Self-arrest practicing ground. (Photo by Jill Jolley)
We had a small group for our Winter climb of 13,427-foot Grizzly Peak D in Summit County on Saturday, Feb. 28. There were four cancellations Friday night and two more Saturday morning. Then we got off to a late start fr...