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Ski Mountaineers Section
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Our section (SMS) welcomes all who enjoy skiing the mountain wilderness with the comradeship and safety of a group. We offer a varied schedule of mountaineering ski tours, including day tours, overnight hut and snowcamping trips, and peak climbs, as well as ski training clinics at resorts and in the backcountry. Look at the Trip Reports page to see what we are doing. SMS tours and events are open to those using either alpine-touring (randonnée) or free-heel (telemark) gear or occasionally split boards. Qualification for membership is based on skiing ability, including the ability to ski uphill in the backcountry. Most ski tours require metal-edged telemark or alpine skis with touring bindings and climbing skins. Contact the leader to sign up for a trip. You need not be a member of the SMS or the Sierra Club to ski with us except for certain trips restricted to members for insurance reasons.
SMS emblem and ski tour sketch by Sierra Club artist and SMS co-founder Leland Curtis (1935). Cartoons by Milton Hildebrand, from Ski Heil!, by Joel Hildebrand, SCB Vol XX, No I, p 1 (Feb 1935). Other cartoons by Mugelnoos authors and editors. |
Meetings: Third Tuesday of each month (except December) from November through May at 7:30 pm, at the Griffith Park Ranger Station Auditorium, 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles. Newcomers are welcome.
The Mugelnoos: Ski Mountaineers' newsheet. Send check for $15 annual subscription, payable to The Mugelnoos, to the Mugelmailer. Subscription payments are not tax-deductible as charitable contributions. Membership: Open to any Sierra Club member who subscribes to the Mugelnoos, is a 4th Class skier or equivalent, and who has participated in an SMS ski tour.
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Picture of the month: Left side: Memorial Day 2008 on Mt Baldy. Right side: Skiing during Baldy Hut Work Party (Photos by Bahram Manahedgi and Alvin Walter)
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