Skiers at Peter Grubb Hut

Welcome

The Loma Prieta Ski Touring Section (STS) of the Sierra Club leads ski trips to the Sierra Nevada and elsewhere.

Trips range from touring on skinny skis or snowshoes to backcountry skiing with fat skis or split boards on steep terrain.

Trips are rated to indicate the trip difficulty level.

Lodging for trips may be in backcountry huts, snow camping, or other private or commercial lodging.

We publish a newsletter (TRACK), we promote conservation of wilderness areas, and we hold meetings from November to May.

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January STS Monthly Meeting

January 5th, 2009, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Peninsula Conservation Center
3921 East Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303

Guest Presenter Marcus Libkind

The evening will include two movies and a mini-slide show.

Ski Memories and The Original Mugelhupf Movie
This home movie begins in Switzerland in 1930 when Wolfgang Lert learned to ski on wooden skis with toe-irons and hazelnut poles. He and his friends would go on to explore the western US for places to ski including Yosemite. The second half of the movie is a ski chase that took place on the flanks of Mt. San Antonio near the Sierra Club’s San Antonio Ski Hut. It’ll make you smile and laugh!

The Lost People of Mountain Village
Anthropologist Wade Davis calls it “no less than the most spectacular archaeological and anthropological discovery of our lifetimes.” Dr. Jerrold Sapphire, author of “VANISHED: Why Bad Things Happen to Bad Civilizations,” calls it… well, you’ll find out what he calls it. But when a lost backcountry skier high in the Rocky Mountains stumbles on a monumental complex of structures – apparently completely uninhabited – the only thing that experts agree on is that we may never know what really happened to “The Lost People of Mountain Village.” This film is very serious! It’s also hilarious!

A Few New Places
Marcus Libkind will inspire you to visit new backcountry places. This mini-slide show will include places few people visit although you have probably driven by them many times.

BIO: Marcus Libkind is best known for his backcountry ski guidebooks Ski Tours in the Sierra Nevada (four volumes) and Ski Tours in Lassen Volcanic National Park. He is the author of the Ski Tours in the Sierra Nevada webpage.

Marcus' love for the winter backcountry drove him to found and currently is the chairman of Snowlands Network, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote opportunities for quality muscle-powered winter recreation and to protect winter wildlands in California and Nevada.