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Kevin

June 21, 2006

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Hines [mailto:khines@olympus.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 8:40 PM
To: Doxey Kemp
Subject: Re: [BUSHWHACKERS] Initiatives for 2007

Dox,
Here are my thoughts on the initiatives:

It seems that the ideas below fall under three broad topics: snow, rock, and leadershipskills. The club could spend 1-2 years/seasons on each topic. The time frame could be sped up if the courses were offer nearly year round,
rather that limited to Spring/Summer as it has been. I think that the club would benefit the most from advancing leadership skills as future leaders is what is needed to carry the club in the future. The life blood of the club
will be club sponsored outings which will require numerous qualified leaders/co-leader. Basic/intermediate skills along with judgement obtained from hands on mountain experience is what is needed to create leaders.
Initially the club's focus was on basic glacier climbing. With that aim, I would suggest 1-2 seasons emphasing the basic/intermediate snow skills (crevasse rescue clinic, intermediate glacier climbing course, avalance
awareness). Following this, the club could emphasize a leadership course for a 1-2 seasons. Then emphasize rock climbing skills for a few seasons. Having said all that, the Alaska Mountaineering Outing or rather a local
North Cascades Clinic for two weeks could vitually accomplish much of the skills above in a compressed time. The course could be 2 weeks with a few days devoted to each of the topics culminating in a climb that wraps it all
together...like a mountain madness or AAI 2 week alpine climbing course.

Kevin Hines