Mountain club program to feature Kilimanjaro
The San Juan chapter of the Colorado Mountain Club will present a slide-show program about a guided climb of Mount Kilimanjaro at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Lyceum of Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College.
Bill Cartwright of Durango will give the presentation about the three-day climb and safari that followed. Cartwright and his son did the climb led by Kling Mountain Guides of Durango in February.
Kilimanjaro, a dormant volcano, is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain in the world at 19,341 feet above sea level.
Cartwright has a long list of climbing accomplishments that include 17 Colorado Fourteeners, Mount Rainier, Mount Bona (a Sixteener in Alaska), Ixta (a Seventeener in Mexico) and Pico Da Orizaba (an Eighteener in Mexico).
Information about the Colorado Mountain Club will be available. The San Juan chapter meeting will follow the presentation.
For more information, call John Bregar at 385-1814 or email johnbregar09@gmail.com.
Seniors Outdoors! announces activities
Seniors Outdoors! will host these activities:
A trip from Goulding Creek Trail to Jones Creek will meet at 8 a.m. Tuesday at Animas City Park. This will be a hard 10-mile hike through the switchbacks up Goulding Creek then following the ridge south on the Pinkerton Flagstaff Trail to Hermosa Creek. A carpool will be available for $4. No dogs are allowed. To RSVP, call Sherry Suenram at 259-5259 or email mikes@gobrainstorm.net.
Wednesday Wanderers will meet at 8 a.m. Wednesday at the Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave., to hike Animas City Mountain. This will be a moderate five-mile hike. Dogs on a leash are allowed. Nonmembers should RSVP to Caroline Murray at 375-0454.
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