Arizona Mountaineering Club - Since 1964

IMPORTANT - You must be a current AMC Club member with 2025 dues paid and a waiver on file for 2025. There will be a limit of 20 participants. Also, priority will be given to recent AMC Basic School and Anchors School grads. This is a great opportunity to practice those recently acquired climbing and anchor building skills.

Also IMPORTANT - We will be recreating on Arizona State Trust Land and each of us MUST have a current Arizona State Trust Land permit. if you are not a current permit holder, please visit https://azland.my.salesforce-sites.com/recreationalpermit/ and purchase your permit (individual or family options). You MUST show your permit to your event organizer as a condition of participation. It would be awful to be turned away for lack of a permit, so please don't be that person.

This is Day 1 of a two-day climbing outing at the Promised Land in the Chino Valley area. Note that there are two separate Meetups, one for Saturday and another for Sunday. If you want to participate both days, please RSVP to both Meetups.

Also, you MUST provide your full name and email address when RSVPing in order to be put on the "Going" list. Your email, NOT this Meetup notice will be used to communicate detailed logistics for this outing!
When you RSVP, you will automatically go to the Waitlist. Priority will be given to recent AMC Basic School and Anchors School grads. After the RSVP period opens, Bill will do the best job he can to be equitable in moving people from the Waitlist to Going, given the stated priority.

We will meet at the Safeway in Chino Valley and caravan back into the Promised Land on Saturday morning, set up several top ropes and climb. If you want to take off at the end of the day, you can do that or stick around and car camp on Saturday evening. Note that the driving route is not straightforward, hence the caravan. Also, a High Clearance or 4WD vehicle is required. Your Honda Civic would be very unhappy.

On Sunday, we'll head back into the canyon for another day of climbing. At the end of the day, we'll break down the climbs and head home.

DISCLAIMER: Climbing and associated activities are personal choices and require personal responsibility. These activities expose you to risks and can result in injury and/or death. Risks are not eliminated by training or skill. By your participation in any AMC activity or event, you accept and assume any and all risks, including those created by negligence, connected to such activity or event.

IMPORTANT - You must be a current AMC Club member with 2025 dues paid and a waiver on file for 2025. There will be a limit of 20 participants. Also, priority will be given to recent AMC Basic School and Anchors School grads. This is a great opportunity to practice those recently acquired climbing and anchor building skills.

Also IMPORTANT - We will be recreating on Arizona State Trust Land and each of us MUST have a current Arizona State Trust Land permit. if you are not a current permit holder, please visit https://azland.my.salesforce-sites.com/recreationalpermit/ and purchase your permit (individual or family options). You MUST show your permit to your event organizer as a condition of participation. It would be awful to be turned away for lack of a permit, so please don't be that person.

This is Day 2 of a two-day climbing outing at the Promised Land in the Chino Valley area. Note that there are two separate Meetups, one for Saturday and another for Sunday. If you want to participate both days, please RSVP to both Meetups.

Also, you MUST provide your full name and email address when RSVPing in order to be put on the "Going" list. Your email, NOT this Meetup notice will be used to communicate detailed logistics for this outing!
When you RSVP, you will automatically go to the Waitlist. Priority will be given to recent AMC Basic School and Anchors School grads. After the RSVP period opens, Bill will do the best job he can to be equitable in moving people from the Waitlist to Going, given the stated priority.

We will meet at the Safeway in Chino Valley on Saturday and caravan back into the Promised Land. If you are planning to drive up on Sunday morning, you will need to follow the map and directions supplied separately via email to navigate back to the Promised Land area. Note that the driving route is not straightforward, hence the caravan. Also, a High Clearance or 4WD vehicle is required. Your Honda Civic would be very unhappy.

On Sunday, we'll head back into the canyon at 8:00 AM (or maybe a little later) for another day of climbing. At the end of the day, we'll break down the climbs and head home.

DISCLAIMER: Climbing and associated activities are personal choices and require personal responsibility. These activities expose you to risks and can result in injury and/or death. Risks are not eliminated by training or skill. By your participation in any AMC activity or event, you accept and assume any and all risks, including those created by negligence, connected to such activity or event.

Continuing in the grand tradition of live practice on “dead” snow (the desert) AMC offers an Alpine Skills simulation workshop.

This workshop provides an introduction to some of the knowledge and skills required for climbing and traveling in Alpine mountaneering and Alpine rock environments.

Some of it will be lecture plus show & tell. Some of it will be skills practice in a simulated alpine environment.

We will cover the following (more if time permits):
- Travel in the alpine environment: rest step, pressure breathing, moisture management, caloric intake, load management, rest management.
-Altitude sickness awareness, AMS, symptoms, CE and PE signs and symptoms, AMS -> Stay put, CE or PE ->go down
-Rope team travel practice – we will rope up and walk.
-Ice Axe self-arrest – discussion and simulation (unless someone wants to throw down on dirt!)
-Snow anchors (Pickets, Flukes, Dead-men, Snow Bollards, nature of snow as an anchoring medium, matching your anchor to job it needs to perform) – discussion and show & tell
-Crevasse extraction, building the C+Z haul system and the standard three member team rescue scenario, hauling weight and stressing anchors. We will show and practice how to build it.
-Avalanche Awareness: importance of the critical angle, slope angle identification, clues to snow loading, womphing, layer formation and slab avalanche ingredients, trigger events
-Basic Avalanche beacon usage – function, key features and characteristics, placement on the body, what it can and can’t do.
-Time permitting will discuss alpine clothing but please dress appropriately for the expected weather (sunny and hot).

Bring: climbing harness, 6 locking carabiners, prusiks, pulleys if you have, some runners or slings, PAS, water, snacks, and your imagination for a “winter” outing. Helmet optional we will not be doing any climbing or rock scrambling. Whatever else you need depending on weather

Participation limited to verified active, dues-paying AMC members. Your RSVP puts you on the wait list while membership is verified.

Workshop is 8:00am-noonish. **Meet at Phoenix Papago Park, intersection of Galvin Parkway and Papago Park Rd. Find us at the trailhead ramada on west side of Galvin parkway (West Buttes parking lot). Limited parking at the trailhead or more parking across Galvin Parkway at the Hole-in-the-Rock parking area (don’t park in the Zoo lots). ** From the trailhead ramada we will hike to the workshop location.

Workshop is limited to 10 participants including instructors. All RSVP's will be waitlisted. Mark Tichinel and Bruce McHenry will be guiding. All skill/knowledge levels welcome, come to learn, collaborate, and contribute.

Disclaimer: Climbing is a personal choice and requires personal responsibility. Climbing and associated activities are dangerous and can result in injury and/or death. Climbing exposes you to risks. Risks are not eliminated by training or skill. By your participation in any AMC activity or event, you accept and assume any and all risks, including those created by negligence, connected to such activity or event.