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An Alpine Club is a country's senior mountaineering club. This is the subcategory page for Alpine Clubs Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories ...
Northstar was a former lumber site once owned by the Douglas Lumber Company of Truckee and was acquired by Fibreboard when they purchased Douglas in 1967. [1] Its original name was Timber Farm, but was changed to Northstar-at-Tahoe when the mountain opened 53 years ago in December 1972. [2] The first ski resort amenities included 5 chairlifts.
The first alpine club, the Alpine Club, based in the United Kingdom, was founded in London in 1857 as a gentlemen's club.It was once described as: "a club of English gentlemen devoted to mountaineering, first of all in the Alps, members of which have successfully addressed themselves to attempts of the kind on loftier mountains" (Nuttall Encyclopaedia, 1907).
The North Star House was the setting for Wallace Stegner’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Angle of Repose. [6] The house eventually became derelict. From the mid-1980s until April 2002, it was owned by Terra Alta Development. During this time Penelope Curtis founded the Julia Morgan Conservancy which began restoration plans for the house.
The two clubs still issue their maps to complement the official maps of the high mountains with special large-scale maps. This is especially true for the Austrian Alpine region, which is a popular area for club members, where there are no official maps at a scale of 1: 25.000, and the Alpine Club fills an important gap.
[11]: 347 As a member of the American Alpine Club Spitzer established the "Lyman Spitzer Cutting Edge Climbing Award" which gives $12,000 to several mountain climbing expeditions annually. [ 12 ] Mary Jobe Akeley, who explored the Selkirk Mountains and much of British Columbia between 1907 and 1914, was an early member.
The descriptions are factual and dry, with few illustrations and despite introductory sections require general Alpine knowledge and experience. Examples are the AVF Allgäuer Alpen and the AVF Verwallgruppe. The AV guides are often used as the basis for other publications and complement the Alpine Club maps or other map series.
The German Alpine Club consists of 356 legally independent sections with a total of ca. 1,520,000 members. [1] These are distributed all over Germany, the number and geographical density of the sections increasing markedly from north to south: for example, whilst there is only one section in post code region 17 (Neubrandenburg), there are over 20 sections in Munich.