Page Updated on February 5, 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
February 6th - Saturday POSTPONED to February 13 due to weather.
Cross Country Skiing - Beginners
Morning lesson, afternoon tour. Location to be determined.
Walt Taguchi 559-435-2818
February 13th - Saturday
Cross Country Skiing - Beginners
Morning lesson, afternoon tour. Location to be determined.
Walt Taguchi 559-435-2818
February 13th - Saturday
Yokuts (Modesto) group outing: Snowshoe Hike (2B)
Crabtree Road Area, Emigrant Wilderness
We’ll start at the far end of Crabtree Road not far from Dodge Ridge, park where the snow cuts off the road and follow nordic ski trails on and off the road. There will be a couple of steep climbs at elevations of about 7,000+feet. Bring water, sack lunch, ten essentials, and money for dinner on the way home and for the drivers. Meet at Denny’s parking lot in Oakdale at 8:00am to carpool.
Contact Monica Casey at 209.996.0058 or hikerlady1955@gmail.com . Co-leader TBA
February 20th - Saturday
Cross Country Skiing - Low to intermediate skiers
Location to be determined.
Walt Taguchi 559-435-2818
February 21st - Sunday
Snowshoe to Panoramic Point, Kings Canyon N.P. (1A or 2A)
Last month heavy snow resulted in a change of plans and a snowshoe detour to Lewis Creek, so let's get to Panoramic Point this month! This is close to 5 miles RT with a steady incline, and we start at 7,000 ft. elevation, but the payoff is the vista at our destination.
Karen Hammer (559) 298-5272
February 24th - Wednesday
Yokuts (Modesto) group Sierra Club Potluck and Movie Night
In their latest film, "The Yes Men Fix the World", Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno pose as executives of giant corporations and lie their way into business and press conferences. Their hilarious pranks expose how corporate greed is destroying the planet. Potluck begins at 6 pm, the movie will begin at 6:45 pm.
Contact host Elaine Gorman, 209.524.7630 or goford@sbcglobal.net, for address/directions.
February 27th - Saturday
Cross Country Skiing - Low to intermediate skiers
Location to be determined
Walt Taguchi 559-435-2818
March 5-7 - Friday - Sunday
Car Camp and Day hikes
Day Hike (1A): Hike to excellent petroglyphs in Lee Flat area of Death Valley National Park (3 easy miles, no trail).
Day Hike (2D): Golden Spur mine hike. Mostly on trail. Scramble down ravine 600 feet to hard rock mine. We have seen big horn sheep on this hike and always see rattlesnakes.
Call for more information.
Richard Sloan (559) 696-2971
March 6th - Saturday
Cross Country Skiing - Beginners
Morning lesson, afternoon tour. Location to be determined.
Walt Taguchi 559-435-2818
March 13th - Saturday
Cross Country Skiing - Low to intermediate skiers
Location to be determined
Walt Taguchi 559-435-2818
March 20th - Saturday
Cross Country Skiing - Low to intermediate skiers
Location to be determined.
Walt Taguchi 559-435-2818
March 27th - Saturday
Cross Country Skiing - Low to intermediate skiers
Location to be determined
Walt Taguchi 559-435-2818
Every Saturday in April
Cross Country Skiing
Location to be determined, weather and snow permitting.
Walt Taguchi 559-435-2818
April 30 - May 2 (or 3) - Friday - Sunday
(3D) Back pack to Panamint City ghost town. Six miles one way on difficult trail (overgrown). Big horn sheep, burros and snakes often seen on this hike. Threat of rain will cancel.
Call for more information.
Richard Sloan (559) 696-2971
Trip leaders, please email Steve Cosner or call (559) 281-5983 to request changes or corrections to this schedule.
