Film Festival-Palooza

http://www.chestnutmtnproductions.com/

The above link launches 4 huge must see film happenings somewhere near you.

The Banff Mountain Film Festival makes a stop this year in Baltmore instead of the National Geographic Society Downtown and proves to be a really fun evening.

Let us know who is going so we can meet and rock the house!

Speed Climber Hans Florine Slide show

You've read about him in Climbing and Rock & Ice, now the Potomac
Appalachian Trail Club-Mountaineering Section (AAC/MS) and American
Alpine Club-Blue Ridge Section (AAC/BRS) are pleased to bring Hans
Florine, The World's Fastest Climber, to DC. Hans will present a
multi media show about his light and fast rock climbing adventures on
the big walls of Yosemite and the 14,000 ft peaks of the Sierras.
Come see this eight-time US National Speed Climbing Champion, and
first World Speed Climbing Champion. Hans has won gold in speed at
the first three ESPN X-Games, and holds numerous speed records around
the world, including his notable ascent of El Capitain in 2 hours and
48 minutes.

Thursday, April 14
7:30 pm
National Cathedral School\'s Hearst Hall
3609 Woodley Rd NW, Washington, DC 20016
Corner of Wisconsin Avenue & Woodley Road-(near Massachusetts & Wisconsin)

Open to the public.
A donation of $5 or more is suggested.

Local climbing organizations will be on hand: sheclimbs, the Access
Fund, Virginia Climbers, the Voyageur Program, Sportrock and
Earthtreks.

Membership Renewal April 15th 2005

Membership renewal is important. PMC is very busy this time of year editing UPROPE NEWSLETTER mailing lists, club directories and list serve addresses. Don't be left out on a ledge. On April 15th when you start doing your taxes, renew your membership at the same time!

4th Annual Photo Contest for 2005

The categories for this year's contest are as follows:

• Mountaineering,
  

• Ice climbing
  

• Trad climbing
  

• Sport climbing
  

• Mountain Scenery
  

• Humor
  

Photo contest will take place on May 11th 2005 at PATC HQ.

All formats (electronic (the bigger the file the better!), photo, slide or negative) are acceptable and will be printed onto high quality 8"x11" paper for the competition.

The pictures will also be posted to the website for review prior to the meeting. There is a limit of one entry per category per member.

Please submit your entries to:

Andy Britton

8012 Montour Heights Drive

Gainesville, VA 20155

or

Tallandyb@aol.com

Closing date for entries is the April 23 April

but it would be appreciated if you could submit your entries as early as possible.

NB I can return all original material either at the meeting. If you would prefer to have your pictures returned by post please provide an SASE.

Blogs, Crags and Snags

The website attendant (me) added a couple of new features to this website called BLOGS. A blog is a web journal or log that I can post instantly to a site . The ability of old news to dissappear into an accessible archive after a week or every month is great for the visitor that wants to see what news was important 3 months or 3 years ago, or where the club goes on "trips".

I created a Climbers Calender Blog as well. I only got on a roll this evening and miraculously made this thing work after weeks of trying to get it to work on my own website so I created both of them.

I will be moving stuff around here and there until I get a feel for what I am doing. This thing is a little interactive so please feel free to leave a comment if you wish.