Make Your Own Stove

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.

Upcoming Events (2009)

06 Jul (Mon), 7:00-9:00pm, Wall-Nut Creek

climbing at Wall-Nut Creek

13 Jul (Mon), 7:00-9:00pm, Wall-Nut Creek

climbing at Wall-Nut Creek

20 Jul (Mon), 7:00-9:00pm, Wall-Nut Creek

climbing at Wall-Nut Creek

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If you use Google Calendars, you can add the ISU MCC calendar. (The Google Calendar is usually up-to-date, but watch this page and the email list for the latest upadates.)

Weekly Events

• There are no club meetings during the summer, but watch the email list to see if people are going on trips (or email the list yourself if you want to plan one).
• Unofficial club time at Wall-Nut Creek
  Monday nights (for the summer) around 7:00pm.
  Wednesday nights (for the fall/spring) 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!

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.

You can download Steve's presentation.

Here are a few of the web sites Steve mentioned in his presentation:

• Terraserver:
  http://terraserver.microsoft.com

• 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

• Google Earth:
  http://earth.google.com

• Aviascene (Steve's program):
  http://69.5.151.193:81/~sdh4/aviascene

• A few other handy sources of information not mentioned in the presentation:
  • County and local conservation boards, and land trusts (Google for county name and conservation)
  • National park service: http://www.nps.gov/
  • US Forest Service: http://www.fs.fed.us/

Other Announcements

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.

http://www.scc.iastate.edu/
http://www.scc.iastate.edu/news/search.php

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)