Alaskan Alpine Club
Alaska mountain climbing club
Alaskan Alpine Club
1957 Weston Drive
Fairbanks, Alaska 99709
phone 907 479 2149
climb at AlaskanAlpineClub.org (use @ for at)
Old Snowy, Black Cap and baby clouds,
from Silvertip.
Yeah, yeah, we gotta get another photo,
as soon as the web slave gets around to it.
January 2010: The winter Ice Tower project was not initiated
due to the usual excuses among climbers
doing too many other things. Perhaps next winter if we get a sponsor.
HOWEVER, the ice tower contest
is still in effect, so if you build an ice tower this winter,
send photos to the club. The biggest or best will get
the $100 prize, which should cover the cost of the beer to celebrate
winning the prize, if the winner does
not celebrate too much. The Washington DC government is still
devaluing the soon-to-be worthless US
Dollar. Nic of North Dakota, a previous winner, has already started
his ice tower (PHOTO AT RIGHT),
and ClimberClif in KENTUCKY, of all places, sent his entry
(FARTHER BELOW RIGHT).
AND if we get some of that fancy frilly border print
certificate paper, a free Nobel Peace Prize will be given
for each ice tower made by any contestant. Well, a Texas service
station is giving them free with each oil change,
and even US President Obama got one free for his 5 Presidential
Ego Gratification Wars (Iraq, Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia). A nomination for his Iran war is
ready as soon as he and his Israeli generals
launch their rockets, predators, tomahawks and stealth bombers
with nuclear bunker busters for that military 
peace initiative which matches the criteria for the "Nobel
Peace" prize. Nobel invented dynamite and paid his
peace prize committee so much money they did not have to go to
school to become sufficiently literate
to distinguish between the meanings of "peace" and "war",
so "oil change" and "ice tower" are also good
enough for the prize. Get some water spraying into the freezing
air before global warming dooms the annual
Ice Tower contest and Nobel Peace Prize. (But global cooling is
next, and scheduled by the ice climbing committee.)
Also: All club office stuff will be delayed awhile.
Office slave traveling. No problem,
you are either out climbing anyway, or doing something wrong.
Introduction to Alaska climbing (linked to below)
The difference between the Alaskan Alpine Club and all
other American mountain climber clubs.
Leaders and members of other climbing clubs literally cannot comprehend
the following:
1. You are a member of the Alaskan Alpine Club if you say you
are. Climbers derive no benefit from
somebody keeping track of club membership lists. Climbers climb,
not waste their time with organizational
processes. There are Alaskan Alpine Club members around the world,
who enjoy being members.
2. Climbing is an individual expression of freedom, challenging
one's physical and mental abilities
in a dangerous environment. The activity does not damage any other
humans or its environment.
Therefore there is no need or logical reason for tax paid government
intervention into the activity of
climbing. By nature, genuine climbers do not appreciate the useless
intrusions, demands, threats, lies
and self-serving taxation imposed by government folks. The Alaskan
Alpine Club is of genuine climbers.
3. Climbers are more than willing to meet their responsibilities.
More than any other outdoor activity
group, mountain climbers provided their own volunteer mountain
rescue groups and rescue financing
programs, that were fully adequate. Then the insatiably greedy,
power-craving government folks devised
and imposed all manner of tactics, lies and raw force to usurp
those responsibilities, thwart climber processes to meet
them, lie to the public about climbers, and then based climbing
regulations on the claim that climbers are irresponsible.
4. Environmentalists are the only citizen organizations which
support the Park Service and other government agency
regulations that hassle, threaten and tax climbers for no benefit
to society. Sierra Club leaders have openly bragged
about the environmentalists taking over all the American mountaineering
organizations, except the Alaskan Alpine Club.
The Alaskan Alpine Club is a climber's organization, unlike all
the American environmentalist mountaineering clubs
who support anti-climber regulations, in the name of environmentalism,
and in trappings of climbers.
5. The Alaskan Alpine Club supports self-responsibility, mutual
assistance, and the rights of climbers.
We rag the pitiable, dishonest government folks. We have fun,
and laugh a lot.
The Alaskan Alpine Club's organizational form, complementing
the freedom of cyberspace,
will be common in the future, led by dynamic mountain climbers
of course.
Club pins. Photo on right. Available for donations of $5 or more.
Mountain Rescue Fund is $20 per year. (Mountain Rescue Fund page)
New club headquarters museum and archives......
The Alaskan Alpine Club is creating a museum and archives.
You can donate or loan old or new climbing equipment, publications,
etceteras, for display. We will put your name and the date on
the items. In a hundred years, people will know that a person
with your name was a climber back in these times. You can offer
a story with them, for the archives. Because Alaskan Alpine Club
members live around the world, this opportunity is open to anyone.
This might be a good opportunity to downsize your old stuff
storage. Individual items such as carabiners, ice axes, pitons,
etceteras, are welcome. If you decide to start climbing again,
your
old stuff will be convenient for your Alaska climbing adventure.
What you donate is LOANED to the museum, so you or your
offspring can reclaim it if you or they wish.
And you are always welcome at the Alaskan Alpine Club headquarters.
Spread the word.
Then get some new climbing stuff, and go climbing.
Yooooo, for good grief sakes...
There we were, mind you, and it was desperate indeed, albeit as usual. It was in the dark of night, in the dead of winter, in the heart of the Alaska Range, lost somewhere on the glacier amid gaping crevasses, the mountains towered above, and the storm raged. Exposed flesh freezes in seconds, you know.
And if you are reading this, you aint no mountain climber. The only real mountain climber is climbing right now, by definition. Anyone else may have been a climber, and may want to be a climber, but is not a climber right now because he is not climbing right now. Well, do you accurately use words, and thus mean what you say? Meaning what you say is a valuable skill in the mountains, and all other places.
Now that we do not have to deal with the inflated ego of those sorts who think they are mountain climbers, we can chit-chat about the Alaskan Alpine Club, Alaska mountain climbing, and laugh ourselves to tears over the antics of these humans.
You can learn that lesson from the mountains. The mountains always deal with what is, rather than what people say. Do the same and you will do well, if you know what questions to ask to distinguish between what is said and what is.
Interested in climbing in Alaska?
Buy or download a topographical map of where you want to climb, go there, climb, and have entirely too much fun.
Need any of the standard mountaineering information that people think they need?
Check out all the standard web sites, books, clubs, stores and such places for standard climbing stuff.
Want some non-standard stuff about mountain climbing?
Imagine that. You have stumbled onto the right site. That is what this club and Alaska are about.
But there are only words and visual illusions at this web site, so the wiser person will hit the off-switch, grab the topo map, and head out the door.
The hardest part of every climb, is getting out of town.
Nothing on this web site or any other web site can assist you in actual climbing, the act of putting one foot in front of and above the other, and hanging on, until you get to the summit. But this web site might give your mind what no climbing organization leaders and government drones want you to have, some knowledge also offered by the mountains, that is, how to be free.
Herein is just knowledge, if you sufficiently question what you read, with real questions, and answer your questions.
The extent of the fun you will have in the mountains, where you may otherwise be miserable, working hard and in danger, is predicated on the extent of the questions you prior ask of your actions, and your answers. Otherwise stated: The knowledge your mind seeks and finds.
And from a mountain climbing club, did you want the rhetorical garbage that ego-craving, control-mentality club officers tell you, usually telling you that you have to do what the government dolts tell you to do, and ask no serious questions, or did you want the knowledge of concepts you learned from your own mind's questions and answers which need no organization leaders or their petty corrupting power? Notice the questions that organization and government leaders flee instead of answer. Ask those questions until you recognize the answers that prevail against all questions, to discover that organization and government leaders serve only themselves, at your cost. You do not need them.
If you are a mountain climber, you need only the mountains and your freedom.
You may do as you consider logical, as wisely done in the mountains, and you will define yourself.
Climb on...
Doug Buchanan
The club web page slave.
Some somewhat current stuff, somewhat....
Museum donation.....
Cool old ice axe from the Mountaineering Club of South Africa.
Story near the bottom of the Museum page.
Art donated to club museum...
We laughed robustly. The Art-For-The-Museum Committee is still scheduled to be created to get the word out that the club is offering a mountain climbing club HQ as a home for donated or loaned impressive mountain art. A committee of actual Alaska climbers is like a herd of cats, an arrangement of words that does not conform to reality. In the meantime the web slave was "shopping at the mall" (dumpster-diving), and found a genuine actual numbered print of an Alaska mountain scene, 14 by 21 inches, by a real Alaska artist, in a genuine wood frame with an actual plastic cover. Not even many scratches on the plastic cover. The artist's name is Tok H - something. Painted in 1987. Cool huh? All things come to those who shop at the mall. So if you know a mountain scene artist who wants to be able to say they have their art in the world headquarters of the prestigious Alaskan Alpine Club, tell the artist, because the art committee is out climbing.
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