The Mountaineers Volunteer Appreciation Dinner 2016
Date and time
Location
The Mountaineers Seattle Program Center
7700 Sand Point Way Northeast Seattle, WA 98115Description
SOLD OUT. We are no longer accepting RSVPs. Thank you.
You and your guest are invited to join The Mountaineers Seattle Branch for an evening to celebrate you and all that you do for The Mountaineers.
All Mountaineers volunteers from all branches are welcome to attend this dinner. If you've led an activity, instructed a course, participated in a work party, helped out at an event, belayed a kid for youth programs or even stuffed invitations then we'd love to see there.
Dinner is complimentary. Please register by January 25 as space is limited. Guests and kids are welcome!
SCHEDULE
5:00pm - Social
6:00pm - Buffet Dinner
7:00pm - Special Guest Speaker, James Edward Mills
7:45pm - Mountaineers-wide and Branch Volunteer Awards
9:00pm - Evening concludes
Business casual attire invited
Special Guest: James Edward Mills specializes in telling stories about outdoor recreation, environmental conservation, and sustainable living. Over the course of James’s long career in the outdoor industry, he has been a guide, outfitter, and independent sales representative, and has participated in a broad range of expeditions, from mountaineering and rock climbing to backcountry skiing and kayak touring, all of which adds to his work today as a freelance journalist and an independent media producer.
He is the producer of The Joy Trip Project, a weekly blog and podcast series that focuses on adventure culture and the author of The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors (Mountaineers Books, 2014).
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For over 100 years The Mountaineers has served as the foremost outdoor recreation organization of the Pacific Northwest, dedicated to educating and inspiring people to explore the outdoors and conserve and steward public lands and waterways. Each year, The Mountaineers 1,000 volunteers provide an average of 3,200 courses and activities for over 13,000 outdoor enthusiasts. Mountaineers Books, the publishing arm of The Mountaineers, produces guidebooks, outdoor instructional texts, natural history guides, and environmental conservation works that further The Mountaineers’ mission.