| DPS CALENDAR |  |
| *NOTE: Monthly meetings will continue to be 7:30 PM at the Cal Fed S&L, 270 N. Vermont Ave and Beverly in Los Angeles. |
| Nov 9-10 | Needle-Manly | Bloland-Lubin |
| Nov 9-10 | Patterson-Stanislaus | Tidball-Jamison |
| Nov 16-17 | 50th Anniversary NY Butte | Jones-Mamedalin |
| Nov 23-24 | Double List Finisher/Nelson | Van Dalsem-Jones |
| Nov 23-24 | Sentinel Pk | Tidball-Jamison |
| Nov 29-30 | Kino Pk & Mt Ajo | Russell-Russell |
| Dec 4 | MONTHLY MEETING-Copper Canyon: Ron Jones will tell and show slides of recent trips into the Tarahumara country of Chihuahua. Refreshments by Dale Van D. | |
| Dec 7-8 | Nelson & Pleasant | Raiford-Cohen |
| Dec 7-8 | Old Dad & Granite | Mantle/Hicks-McRuer |
| Dec 7-8 | NY Mtns & McCullough | Jamison-Tidball |
| Jan 1 | NO MEETING THIS MONTH | |
| Jan 11-12 | Chemehuevi & Stepladder | Russell-McRuer |
| Jan 11-12 | Mitchell, Edgar & Providence Pt | Van Dalsem-Campy |
| Jan 18-20 | Kofa & Castle Dome | Reber-Campy |
| Jan 25-26 | Mitchell Pk Exploratory | I & S Mamedalin |
| Jan 25-26 | Palen Mtn & Big Maria Mtn | Toby-Young |
| Jan 25-27 | Scodie & El Paso Mtns | Wheelock-Valkass |
| Angeles Chapter Executive Committee & Council: Mountaineering by Tom Armbruster |
Chapter Foundation. That way, outings could be run without insurance:
If a liability suit were lost, there'd be few organization assets to seize. As your Chapter ExComm Secretary, I recently wrote to Club President Phil Berry. Three years ago, Berry had supported this idea. I've received a progress report from him, backed up by three dozen pages of correspondence. I'll gladly send copies of these to anyone interested. The following are selected quotes from Berry's letters: 12-3-90 "Dear Tom: . .. At the Board's retreat and official meeting in July, I raised the question of incorporation of subsidiaries to shield the club from liabilities, possibly arising from outings. Board task force was formed which will follow up on efforts of an earlier task force that I chaired since our initial action on this proposal in January. The Board has not yet agreed to do anything specific but is moving in the direction of trying to make it possible to bring mountaineering back."Dan Sullivan will be Chair of the new task force. We are now working on his specific charge. |
9-6-91 "Dear Dan: I accept your statement of the charge as set forth . . . but I have some proposed additions. I understand your desire to trial (balloon) only one proposal and if you feel more comfortable with the national outings, make it that one. I think Cal would rather see one corporation for both national outings and high hazard local outings ... I recognize that the Council and a great many other interests would have to be accommodated in a proposal effecting chapter and group activities, but I am far stronger than some people in the belief that we can insulate the Club this way. . . . I propose a phased approach. (1) work on the national outing committee proposal first but have a subgroup of your group which is willing to work in parallel on the local outings problem. |
In September 1988, the Sierra Club abolished mountaineering, outings on which ropes or ice axes would normally be used. This gutted the Sierra Peaks Section's program, hurt the Desert Peaks Section, and made the Rock Climbing Section completely inactive. It slightly curtailed HPS outings. Mountaineering was abolished because of a big increase in liability insurance for covering these outings. Without insurance coverage, the Club's whole $30 million annual income could be wiped out by a liability judgement. (Our insurance rates went up because of loses due to climbing accidents.) A proposal entertained since then is to bring back mountaineering by running it under the aegis of an organization closely related to the Sierra Club, but legally independent from it, much as are the Sierra Club Legal Defence Fund, the Sierra Club Foundation, and the Friends of the Angeles |