The Colorado Mountain Club. The CMC continued its emphasis on ...

The Colorado M ountain Club. The CM C continued its em phasis on large numbers o f hikes in the Colorado area, with over 2,000 trips offered during the year. In addition, a num ber o f outings were sponsored to other parts o f the world, including trips to Nepal, Yellowstone Park, England, and Scotland. We continue to offer training courses in a variety o f areas, such as wilderness trekking, basic mountaineering, high altitude m ountaineering, avalanche aw areness, wilderness survival, ice clim bing, interm ediate rock climbing, and w inter camping. The CM C is jointly renovating a school with the AAC, with the com pleted building to house the headquarters o f both organizations. The renovation began in September, 1996, and is sched­ uled for com pletion in 1998. The two organizations have raised more than $3,000,000 for this project, with roughly $1,000,000 more to be collected to com plete it. A num ber o f Colorado and national foundations have supplied funds for the work. The club also installed an autom ated trip sign-up system this year. M em bers can now call the clubhouse 24 hours a day to sign up for trips, using a trip num ber in their trip schedules and their m em ber numbers. This has greatly reduced the burden on the staff while im proving the response time for members. The club has also entered into a book reselling agreem ent with the Seattle M ountaineers, whereby that organization advertises selected publications in the CM C magazine, Trail & Timberline, ships its books directly to the CM C mem bers, and gives the CMC a percentage of the proceeds, which is used for its operating budget. We hope that there will be more coopera­ tive agreem ents o f this type among the nation’s mountaineering organizations in the future. S t e v e B r a g g , Outgoing President