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.
June 2010: Club office stuff still delayed by the office slave being out of the office.
No problem, you are either out climbing anyway, or doing something wrong.
Notice of the (June) 2010 Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic on the Wilderness Classic Race Page.
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 the 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. More climbers clean up other climbers' trash, than leave
it, except where Park Service rangers threaten climbers
with fines, and thus incite defiance, by the human mind's designed
reaction against threats and the use of force.
5. 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.
6. The Alaskan Alpine Club supports self-responsibility, mutual
assistance, and the rights of climbers.
We rag the pitiably dishonest government folks. We have fun, and
laugh a lot.
And 7. The environmentalists, identical to the DemocanRepublicrat
War and Police Regime (with its
unquestioning National Park police), and all power-based institutions,
functionally decree that YOU MUST
DO AS THEY SAY, for your own good, under threat of armed police
and jail, because you are too ignorant
to make your own decisions. They suggest that your brain
design is inferior to environmentalists, and inferior
to unquestioning (therefore unthinking), orders-obeying sorts
who sink to police jobs. Their institutional opponents
suggest the same concepts of their own superiority and your inferior
brain design. It is impossible for them to be
superior to each other, and to you, by design of the human mind,
as they each suggest they are, revealing their
laughable ignorance of reality. And they are too intellectually
absent to figure it out even if they read these words.
You must pay the Park Rangers (permit fees) to be there to arrest
you if you do not pay them, because they have the
support of the power-based (unquestioning) environmentalists,
for the same reason you must pay the US Army (taxes)
to slaughter whomever the President decrees, without a Congressional
Declaration of War, because they have the
support of the power-based (unquestioning) DemocanRepublicrats.
You must ask no questions. The existence of
power requires an ignorant society of institutions too self-serving
to question the corruption of their own power.
IN CONTRAST individual thinking mountain climbers who learn
the flawless reality of the mountains, suggest
that they can more logically make their own decisions, with a
brain design inherently the same as all humans, without
their perceptions being inherently corrupted by the POWER of police
and environmentalist organizations who make
the same number of mistakes as everybody else, by design of the
human mind, and then more damaging mistakes
when corrupted by their perception of holding POWER over you.
Genuine mountain climbers recognize that
YOU TOO can make your own decisions more logically than another
person who inherently does not hold your
mind's knowledge, and certainly more logically than a self-serving,
power-corrupted government sort who uses his
power to get more power/money. The Alaskan Alpine Club is of genuine
climbers. You are a member if you say you
are, because you hold, learn and logically use the controlling
knowledge for your life. Your choice.
You will always reveal your thinking ability.
No human or an original sloshing-together of atoms by chance,
could create such a brilliant design, a human
mind with no recognizable limit to its reasoning ability,
the ability to resolve every identifiable contradiction
in the universe, counter-balanced by a mechanism that facilitates
the stimuli-induced damage of the perception of "power",
a power-damaged mind that avidly surrenders its priceless reasoning
ability for the most petty power (ego gratification),
an obviously repugnant, self-doomed trait, and the most paltry
money, often only the former, concepts useless to the
mountain climber using his mind to resolve each next perceived
contradiction upon which he or she made his or her
life dependent, for the fun that offers the knowledge.
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. The club needs
no power of recorded membership numbers, and only offers reasoning
for the consideration
of fellow climbers who may ascribe to that reasoning if it represents
their own.
Club pins. Photo on right. Available for donations of $5 or more.
Mountain Rescue Fund is $20 per year. (Mountain Rescue Fund page)
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.
The Club
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