Anne Ver Hoef will lead "Hillside Loop(s)" with a duration of 2.5 hours somewwhere in East Anchorage.
Meet at 6:30 pm at Prospect Heights trailhead. We will take a series of smaller trails in the Hillside. Be prepared for ice patches – two lights may be desirable and traction for shoes.
E. Marquez will lead "Mad Potter" with a duration of 2.5 hours somewwhere in Turnagain Arm.
Meet at 6:30 pm in the parking area at the intersection of the Seward
Highway and Potter Valley Road. We will follow the Turnagain Arm
Trail for approximately 1/2, mile, then head uphill towards the ridge, with
a goal of returning via Potter Valley Road from above.
Jesse Gobeli will lead "A little Back and Forth" with a duration of 2.5 hours somewwhere in JBER.
Meet at 6:30 pm at the small pulloff just before the ski area at the top of Arctic Valley Road. We will start with a short climb, then descend to the valley floor, then climb back up the ridge, and descend the standard route back to the start.
Rob DeVelice will lead "Off Point" with a duration of 2.5 hours somewwhere in East Anchorage.
Meet at 6:30 pm at the Basher trailhead (on the right 3 miles up Campbell Airstrip Road from Tudor Road). We will begin on the Basher Road, proceed up the ridge on trails and minimal bushwack towards Near Point, and finish on trails looping back to Basher trailhead.
Rob DeVelice will lead "Most Excellent!" with a duration of 2.5 hours somewwhere in Turnagain Arm.
Meet at 6:30 pm in the parking area outside the gate of the McHugh Picnic
Area on the Seward Highway. V/e will take a figure eight route to McHugh
Saddle. There will be a mix of trails, bushwhacks, and ridgeline scrambles.
Rob DeVelice will lead "A Little Rusty" with a duration of 2.5 hours somewwhere in The Chugach Front Range.
Meet at 6:30 pm in the Prospect Heights parking area on the
Anchorage Hillside. V/e will proceed on our “standard route” towards
Rusty Point until where we usually leave the ascent trail. V/e will
continue further towards the Middle Fork and then navigate obscure
game trails, shrub thickets (some defoliated by insects), and rock
scrambles. From the summit of Rusty we will zip down and across to
the Wolverine trail and loop back to Prospect Heights.
Rob DeVelice will lead "Sheep Thrills" with a duration of 2.5 hours somewwhere in Turnagain Arm.
Meet at 6:30 pm at the Falls Creek Trailhead on the Seward Highway. We will proceed
via bushwack and scramble to Sheep Thrills Ridge. Depending on snow abundance
weather, and participant desires this will either be an out and back or a loop.
Jesse Gobeli will lead "Unnamed" with a duration of 2.5 hours somewwhere in Turnagain Arm.
Meet at 6:30 pm at the Rainbow Trailhead on the Seward Highway. We will take the Turnagain Arm Trail south for a short distance, before proceeding uphill along the unnamed ridge. We will reach a suitable turnaround point and return by the same route.
Rob DeVelice will lead "Free Bird" with a duration of 2.5 hours somewwhere in Turnagain Arm.
Meet at 6:30 pm at the “original” (small) Bird Ridge trailhead. We
will proceed straight up from the trailhead via bushwack and scramble. Once we reach the ridge we will hop the trail and dive downslope towards Bird Creek. We will finish on obscure paths and a little bit of the official Bird Ridge Trail.
Rob DeVelice will lead "Rainbow Warriors" with a duration of 2.5 hours somewwhere in Turnagain Arm.
Meet at 6:30 pm in the pullout on the right (sea side) of the Seward Highway nearest to milepost 109. That’s the pullout immediately across the road from the spring fed water pipe and near the “Sky Pilot” rock climbing area. V/e will bushwack, scramble, and snow climb steeply up and down the slopes and ridges of Rainbow Peak.
Bring an ice ax and traction devices (such as micro spikes).
Anne Ver Hoef will lead "Flattop Figure 8" with a duration of 2.5 hours somewwhere in The Chugach Front Range.
Anne Ver Hoef; Flattop Figure 8; class 2; 2.5 hours; meet at 6:15 pm (for carpooling) at the curve where Upper DeArmoun goes to the right onto Canyon Road OR at Rabbit Lake trailhead at 6:30 pm; we will take the trail up the south side of Flattop, across the ridges over Peak Two, down the north side to the Powerline Trail, go along the Powerline for a little ways, and back up to the ridge and low spot between Flatop and Peak Two, and will finally descend the trail back to Rabbit Lake Trailhead; route includes some off trail sections through low brush and rocks.
Evan Hone will lead "No Title" with a duration of 2.5 hours somewwhere in The Valley Area.
Evan Hone (cell p. 841-2739); Matanuska River Railroad Trail; class 1+; 2.5 hours; 6:30 pm rendezvous in parking lot of Carrs store in Palmer (we will then drive to the trailhead); trail in excellent condition but dirty diversions might be included here and there if the group desires.