Category talk:Events

Potential speakers to bring to campus

We are more likely to find funding for women and/or minority speakers

Skier Greg Hill. Nick is in touch with him.
Andrew Skurka has done some epic trips, and is heading out for a speaking tour about his recent Alaska-Yukon trip in Spring 2011. Among other achievements, he finished second in the 2008 Leadville Ultramarathon. Morgan Beeby and PT are in touch with him currently. April 2010 seems a possibility since he will be in San Diego around April 20th.
Chris McNamara speaks occasionally. He's a big-wall climber, BASE wingsuit jumper, and runs SuperTopo.
Glen Dawson is a Sierra pioneer, and lives in Pasadena
R. J. Secor lives in Pasadena
Fred Becky
Mike Gauthier, former head ranger at Rainier
Leor Pantilat, adventure runner from the Bay Area
Lynn Hill
Bob Gaines - reasonably sure he won't charge since we can let him include few slides advertising for his guiding company. He has already had commercial outings with the club and is interested in scope for more.
Alpinist Colin Haley is usually in Yosemite in October.
Badass climber Alex Honnold
British mountaineer Andy Kirpatrick. I've heard his talks are great and super energetic, but I think this would cost big money.
Peter Croft
Bruce Normand. Physicist-Mountaineer. Stephen did try to get him to come 3 years ago.
John Long (he spoke for the SCMA in Nov 2010)
Katie Brown

The Stanford club had the following speakers:

Neptune Mountaineering in Boulder has regular talks by world-class climbers, so we might get some ideas there

We could get one of the trainers (the head trainer Andre?) to teach a min-session (e.g. 30 minutes) on taping ankles and such. The taping that you learn in a first-aid course is very basic, but athletic trainers tape athletes all the time, and with the purpose of allowing the athlete to still compete, so they probably can teach us some advanced techniques that would be useful to know for the cases when you have to hike out 10 miles on a bad ankle. This should be easy to organize if we can get a trainer to donate his/her time, and the athletic department to approve. Only potential cost would be rolls of tape for every participant, but I don't think this cost is too high. Maybe do it during lunch one day? Srbecker 15:26, 3 December 2010 (PST)