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Tehipite Chapter

Page Updated on November 15, 2009

Outings Trip Schedule

Our Tehipite Chapter Outings Co-Chairs are Dave Wallace (559) 434-2158, email: wagga@comcast.net; and Steve Cosner (559) 281-5983, email: stevec@sfsu.edu.  Please contact them with any questions concerning our outings program.  Contact the trip leader directly if you are interested in one of the listed trips.

Tehipite Chapter outings are free and open to the public.  All leaders are unpaid volunteers assuming responsibility for a good trip, and your cooperation is mandatory.  For your safety, participation on a trip is at the sole discretion of the outings leader.  Please call the leader well in advance for details, reservations, or if you plan to cancel.  Outings officially start at the trailhead.  Travel responsibility rests on each participant.  Carpooling is encouraged, but leaders can not be responsible for the organization of carpools.  The Sierra Club does not provide insurance for transportation.  Drivers are normally reimbursed eight cents per mile by passengers.  No guns, pets, or radios are permitted on trips.

Additional outings polices along with information on becoming a trip leader are available on the Outings Policies page.

Outings Articles and Trip Reports

The Tehipite Topics and the Tehipite Chapter Web Site need your articles on outings and trip reports.  If you go on a chapter or group outing consider writing a trip report.  How to articles, equipment reviews, trail descriptions and conditions, and any other articles related to outings and enjoying the outdoors will be greatly appreciated.  Send your articles and pictures to Topics@BigBaldy.com

Outings

November 17th - Tuesday

Yokuts (Modesto) group outing:  Day hike (1A)

A Saunter Through the Muir Papers - Field Trip to the Holt-Atherton Special Collection

Calling all fans of John Muir!!  We will visit the University of the Pacific, Stockton, to to look at and discuss some of John Muir's collections and materials.  Michael Wurtz, Archivist at the Holt-Atherton Special Collections at the University of the Pacific, will give an introductory overview to the John Muir Papers.  Bonnie Gisel will present a 1 1/2 hour program, and is the author of Nature's Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muir's Botanical Legacy and curator of the Sierra Club's LeConte Memorial Lodge in Yosemite National Park.  Lunch at UOP and short hike to check out Calaveras River restoration will follow.  We will leave from Modesto at 8:30 am., probable return around 3:00 pm.

Contact Yokuts leader Elaine Gorman at 209.524.7630 or goford@sbcglobal.net.  Space is limited, so call now.

January 24th – Sunday

Snowshoe to Panoramic Point, Kings Canyon

Outing rated (1A) but can be easy or hard, depending on snow conditions.  Poor conditions will result in trip postponement to the following Sunday.

Karen Hammer (559) 298-5272

February 21st - Sunday

Snowshoe from Coyote Trailhead (1A or 2A)

Conditions will determine whether we follow Eagle Trail or Coyote Loop trail.  Poor conditions will result in trip postponement to the following Sunday.

Karen Hammer (559) 298-5272

Trip leaders, please email Steve Cosner or call (559) 281-5983 to request changes or corrections to this schedule.

Rating System

Distance

1. up to 6 miles
2. 6 to 10 miles
3. 10 to15 miles
4. 15 to 20 miles
5. over 20 miles

Elevation Gain

A. under 1,000 feet
B. 1,000 to 2,000 feet
C. 2,000 to 3,000 feet
D. 3,000 to 4,000 feet
E. over 4000 feet

Mount Whitney day hike group

Carolyn's Mount Whitney day hike group

Ostrander Lake, Yosemite.

Ostrander Lake, Yosemite.

Hiking near Millerton Lake.

Hiking near Millerton Lake

Millerton Lake.

Millerton Lake

Coyote Trail Snow Shoe and X-C Ski

Coyote Trail Snow Shoe and X-C Ski

California Newt on the Kings River Hike

California Newt on the Kings River Hike