These are the instructions for making your
own stove out of cat food cans. This is different from the pop-can stoves
we made at the meeting, but similar concept.
Ryan will bring condiments and charcoal. Bring your own food and drink.
Join our facebook group!
If you use Google Calendars, you can add the ISU MCC calendar. Just
click the "Google Calendar" logo above. (This calendar is still in the
experimental phase, so don't rely on it alone for event
information.)
Weekly Events
Club Meetings
Mondays, 8:00pm, Gilman 1810 -- watch this web page and the email list for details! (Prospective members are
welcome at the meetings, so come check us out and bring your
friends!)
Unofficial club time at Wall-Nut
Creek
Wednesday nights around 7:00pm.
Climbing at the gym in a barn a few miles south of Ames. Great chance
to get to know other climbers and build your own skill and
strength.
You don't have to be a club member to hang out with us, but paid club
members get in for $3!
Virtual Reality Trip Planning
At the meeting on Monday (01Nov), Steve Holland gave a presentation on
"Virtual Reality Trip Planning". He demonstrated how you can download free
GIS (Geographical Information Systems) data files online and use them in an
open-source program Steve wrote, called Aviascene, and drive or fly around
the landscape like in a video game. This helps show you what the terrain
actually looks like in real life, which helps you plan the best route and
identify the correct peak and other features once you get there.
The National Map: http://nationalmap.usgs.gov http://seamless.usgs.gov
Get Topo's by selecting "24k DRG" or "100k DRG" as the data to download.
Edit & Reduce the TIFF file, then take it to CopyWorks to print out
We are having a contest to design the club t-shirts for this year. The
winner gets a $15 gift card to JAX. All the rules and logos for the
t-shirt contest, and the place to submit your designs, are at
http://www.ryanmcnair.com/gallery/ISUMCC.
Update, 14Nov: I believe the final decision is to get dark green shirts
with light green designs, using Jonathan Householder's mountain
stencil logo for the front, and using the lower half of Jon Lemons' logo
climber for the back, with an added phrase below that logo on the
back: "I banish fear with two words: You lead."
T-shirts are in! Bring money to a meeting to get one!
The climbing club took a day trip to Wild Iowa for
some celebratory sport climbing (take that Iowa!). 5 of us went and had a
pretty good time, thanks to Pinto's leading ability. I believe we did 6
climbs in all, ranging from 5.6 to 5.12a. Pinto also jumped on some other
climber's ropes to get a few harder climbs (Flash) in that none of us
wanted to try.
SCC Meetings
This is a schedule of the Sports Club Council meetings for Fall 2005. All
meetings are in 104 Beyer Hall 1213 Hoover Hall at 6:30pm. All clubs
must have a representative present.
August 22
September 5
September 19
October 3
October 17
October 31
November 14
November 28
January 9
January 23
January 27? (budget hearings 8am-5pm, Design 101?)
February 6
February 20
March 6
March 20
April 3
April 17
April 24 (SCC Award Cookout)
