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Chapter Members Participate in National Diversity Conference
November 30, 2009
BY MELODY ANDERSON Several members of the Angeles Chapter recently participated in the inaugural Breaking the Color Barrier in the Great American Outdoors conference in Atlanta. The conference, which was held September 23-26 at the Hilton Atlanta...
What Will You Give The Planet?
November 30, 2009
BY Elizabeth Saas Editor Happy holidays! Whether we observe Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, or the Solstice, most of us think of this time of year as the Season of Giving. And if the merchants and the media had their way, Season of Giving would be...
Group Spotlight: OCICO
November 30, 2009
Left Photo: Discovering nature: students who participate in OCICO learn about and participate in conservation. Right Photo:OCICO members remove invasive species. In sharp contrast to The OC presented in TV dramas, in The Real OC, there...
Hot Ticket: Mediterranean Cruise
November 30, 2009
Photo Courtesy Of CNL Cruises WHAT: Angeles Chapter. Board the luxury ship Norwegian Jade for a 12 night cruise the length of the Mediterranean. Ports of call are Rome, Italy; Athens, Greece, Ephesus, Turkey; Alexandria, Egypt; Valletta...
Passages/Remembering Joe McCosker
November 30, 2009
Joe McCosker in 1967 Photo Credit: Angeles Chapter Archives Most of us met that zany and incredibly witty couple, Joe and Betty McCosker back in the 1970s, when they were deemed our matriarch and patriarch of the Desert Peaks Section...
2009 Political Leadership Awards
November 30, 2009
From left: L.A. PolComm Co-chair Howard Strauss, Speaker Karen Bass, L.A. PolComm Co-Chair Susana Reyes, and L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas Photo Credit: Jane Simpson On October 25, the 3rd annual Angeles Chapter Political...
Learn to Leave no trace
November 30, 2009
Wilderness Travelers enjoying a snow table Photo Credit: Jane Simpson Among the many benefits you get from taking the Angeles Chapter's Wilderness Travel Course (WTC), two things stand out. One is meeting people with similar interests....
Pick Up A Pen For Polar Bears
November 30, 2009
Photo by: Stephen Kazlowski On October 22, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced a proposal to designate more than 128 million acres of Alaskan coastline and waters as critical habitat for the polar bear. In May 2008 the...
Passages/Remembering Ron Young
November 30, 2009
Ron Young on his 70th birthday, November 3, 2004 Photo Credit: Mary McMannes The three climbing sections of HPS, DPS, and SPS, bid a fond farewell to an all around good and mellow guy, and one who had many quips and one-liners, Ron Young...
SHOP 'TIL YOU DROP vs. DON'T SHOP; DON'T DROP
November 30, 2009
BY Carol Henning Co-Chair, Editorial Board The holidays are here, by golly. Disapproval would be folly, might be the 21st century update of the classic Tom Lehrer song about Christmas. Holiday catalogs crowd mail boxes. We have everything you need...