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,
just as soon as I get around to it.

Ice Tower Web Cam Belatedly added new ice tower photos, bottom of IceTower8

Introduction to Alaska climbing (linked to below)

The Alaskan Alpine Club represents the universal concepts of mountain climbers.

Club membership: You are a member if you say you are. We do not waste time or money
with organizational processes that serve only organizational processes and flatter organization
leaders. We represent individual responsibility and individual freedom from illogical government
restrictions designed to usurp individual responsibility and punish people for not kowtowing to the
pitiable sorts in government. We rag the government chaps who are so completely ignorant of the
human phenomenon that they perceive they somehow hold a brain design superior to other humans,
and think they must function as parents of other adults. Consider the The Club page to ascertain if
you wish to be an Alaskan Alpine Club member, anywhere in the world. We live free, have fun and
laugh a lot, best done by people who meet their responsibilities.

Our organizational form, complementing the freedom of cyberspace, not bound by old loyalties to titled
club officers and paperwork, will be common in the future, led by dynamic mountain climbers of course.

New club pins. Photo on right. Available for donations of $5 or more.

Mountain Rescue Fund will be $20 per year starting January 2009 (Mountain Rescue Fund page)

New club headquarters museum and archives......

The Alaskan Alpine Club is creating a museum and archives.
You can donate 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, pitons, ice axes,
etceteras, are welcome. If you decide to start climbing again your
old stuff will be convenient for your Alaska climbing adventure.
And you are always welcome at the Alaskan Alpine Club headquarters.
Spread the word.

Then get some new climbing stuff, and go climbing.

Insider knowledge. Tell no one: The easiest way to be recognized as a cowboy is to wear a cowboy
hat and boots. Sure beats having to ride a horse. The easiest way to be considered a mountain climber is
to buy an ice axe, maybe even an old wooden one, beat it up a little if it looks too new, put your name
on it, and send it to the Alaskan Alpine Club for the display room. Sure beats having to climb mountains.
If you are laughing as much as the Alaska climbers, wisdom taught by mountains, you are a better climber
than those serious egotists who demand all manner of mountain climbing credentials to be considered as
good and properly credentialed as they consider themselves, especially those uppity American Alpine Club
sorts who flatter National Park Service dolts, to be mutually flattered, much to the laughter of real climbers
who value individual freedom above kowtowing to park climbing rangers who are only there to arrest climbers
who do not kowtow to worthless rangers. Tell no one.

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. 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
Climbing Concepts 1
Climbing Concepts 2
Climbing Concepts 3
Gullible Climbers
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Wilderness Classic Race
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