Tim would love to hear your encouraging thoughts directly- cards are
accepted at:

St. Anthony Hospital
c/o Tim Kish
11600 W. 2nd Pl.
Neuro- ICU, Room 213
Lakewood, CO 80228

The hospital kindly requests no flowers- they are not permitted in the ICU.
The family will provide updates as appropriate, probably in the next 10-14
days.

For more information and to purchase tickets:

Adult Tickets

Children Tickets

Introducing GORP – the Great Outdoors Reading Program – a book discussion forum of CMC Denver Group members and friends.

Thursday February 9, 2012:
The Lunatic Express by Carl Hoffman

Thursday, March 8, 2012
Everest, the West Ridge by Tom Hornbein

Thursday, April 12, 2012
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

We are meeting in the Drumright room at the CMC from 7-9pm.

For more information, contact Stan Moore or at 303-929-7802 for more information.

The CORSAR Card Is Not Insurance
The card is not insurance and does not reimburse individuals nor does it pay for medical transport. Medical transport includes helicopter flights or ground ambulance. If aircraft are used as a search vehicle, those costs are reimbursed by the fund. If the aircraft becomes a medical transport due to a medical emergency, the medical portion of the transport is not covered.

The CORSAR cards are available for $3 for one year and $12 for five years, and can be purchased at over 300 retailers in the state. You may also purchase cards online. Please visit one of these links:

PURCHASE ONLINE

PURCHASE FROM THESE LOCAL VENDORS

For the cost of the card, you have helped ensure that trained and well equipped search and rescue teams will respond should you become lost or in need of rescue. Furthermore, volunteers will not have to incur undue expense due to your emergency.

Annual State Park Passes:

The CMC is now an agent for Annual State Parks passes. You can purchase your Annual Colorado State Park pass at the CMC offices located in the American Mountaineering Center.

Centennial Celebration Climbs:

Help us get the celebration started!  Calling all trip leaders…we need you to lead trips up Colorado’s highest 100 peaks between now and December 31, 2012!!

The guidelines for trip leader participation in this program to celebrate the CMC’s Centennial Anniversary have been revised to allow for unlimited, multiple climbs of the Centennial Peaks. To participate in this celebration, qualified Denver Group trip leaders may now lead a trip to one or more of the Centennial Peaks (top 100) between now and December 31, 2012. Interested trip leaders should email Beth Dwyer and indicate which trip(s) they wish to lead. Leaders will be responsible to schedule the trip in the CMC online schedule. Instructions, formats and assistance will be provided to help streamline the leader’s participation.

To see a list of who is climbing what, please visit this PAGE .  Here you will see the sign ups, schedules, completions, trip reports and photos of the trips. Participation in this program will help provide advertisement for the CMC and help allow members to climb the Top 100 peaks.

Thanks for your participation trip leaders!

Do you have propane canisters piled up in your garage or storage shed? Bet you’re wondering if or where you can refill or recycle them. Recycle, yes; refill, no.

Here are a few places that recycle small propane canisters for scrap metal.Metro Gas: 790 W. 64th Ave., Denver, CO (303) 428-3036

Rooney Road Recycling Center: 151 S. Rooney Rd., Jefferson County, CO (303) 316-6262

Weld County Household Hazardous Waste: 1311 N. 17th Ave., Greeley, CO (720) 652-4200 x2233

Boulder County Household Hazardous Waste Facility: 5880 Butte Mill Rd., Boulder, CO 80301 (303) 441-4800

Be sure to call or check on line before taking propane canisters, or any recyclables, to one of these sites. Some are drop off sites, have limited hours, or have a minimal charge. All limit use to residents of the county or municipality they serve. For example, for Jefferson County residents the Rooney Rd. site will take canisters on Wednesday and Saturday between 8:00-2:00 by appointment only. There is a $5 charge.

Why aren’t these small canisters refillable? According to Collin at Metro Gas, the small canisters are too dangerous to refill because of the light weight of the metal from which they are made. They can however refill 5 pound and larger canisters. Staff at Metro Gas can build hoses to connect to camp stoves and grills to accommodate 5 pound canisters. This could be useful for car campers, but unhelpful to backpackers.

Nathan Hamm of Cascade Design explained that, “canisters cannot legally be refilled. It’s physically possible to refill canisters, but it’s not safe to do so. The canisters are not designed to be sturdy enough to handle repeated use. The canisters also lack an overflow prevention mechanism, which is required for refillable canisters.”

REI did a pilot program to see if they could offer a recycling service for canisters. Due to the complexity of recycling potentially dangerous canisters, they decided they couldn’t provide this service.

Here are two all around good web links for general recycling:

Colorado Recycles: http//www.colorado-recycles.org/main.html

Earth 911: http://www.earth911.org/master.asp

To search for a canister recycler in your area look under “Metal (scrap)” and select your appropriate county or municipality.

Bottom line, we each need to take responsibility for our own canister recycling using the limited resources out there.

Carol Ordemann
Denver CMC Conservation Committee Member
Pine Beetles Information: Mountain Pine Beetles

Nature’s Peace will flow into you like sunshine on trees

The winds will blow their freshness

and the Storms their energy

And your cares will fall off like autumn leaves”