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Lead any trip and get an award!


The Mountaineers board has unanimously agreed to a new award scheme for trip leaders. We want to honor those folks who organize and lead our Club's trips. They are a key to the our success and bring us together as an outdoor community. We cannot begin to compensate our leaders for their efforts, but are pleased to offer a small token of appreciation.

These awards will recognize trips starting immediately, and  points can be earned until December 31, 2011, we will have two schemes running simultaneously - fleece jackets for 4 points on the old system, plus the new awards.

Our awards will be a series of caps and hats with the Club logo. To encourage first-time trip leaders, we will award a first hat to anyone who leads a Club trip. Trip leaders earn one point for a day trip and two points for an overnight trip. See table below for details.


Rules for earning points are (example):
  • 1 point for a day trip,
  • 2 points for an overnight trip of any length,
  • Points can be earned by only one person per trip. In the case of co-leaders, points will go to the first leader listed on the trip announcement unless I am informed otherwise,
  • Trip must go with at least four participants, per the LAM bylaws,
  • No more than four hats can be earned in this award period.
Awards

First hat

1 point: Water resistant billed cap, olive or nautical red, with our modernized LAM logo and the saying  "Established 1952"

See Modern Mountaineers
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Second hat

3 points (cumulative)
: Fleece winter beanie, purple or midnight heather (gray), with our modernized logo and the saying "How hard could it be?"

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Third hat

7 points (cumulative):
Extreme outdoor flap hat, stone, with our modernized logo and the saying "Fearless Leader"

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Fourth hat

15 points (cumulative): Eco fleece winter cap, navy, with the Mountaineers classic logo.

See Classic Mountaineers
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Modern Mountaineers logo

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Classic Mountaineers logo


Example of earning points and hats:

Joe Hero leads an overnight trip (2 pts) at the end of August, and is awarded his first hat at the September meeting. He leads a day trip in late October (3 pts cumulative), and is thus awarded his second hat at the November meeting, just a time for his head to be warm this winter. Before the February meeting, he leads a one-night snow cave trip (2 pts) and a 6-week trip to Antarctica (2 pts), reaching 7 pts and receiving his third hat at the February meeting. By June, he has led three more overnight expeditions, including a day hike with a hotel stay the night before (counts for 2 pts), plus two day trips. Although he and Jane Hiker co-led one of the day trips, he was listed first on the trip announcement and earned the point. With his 7 points before February, and these 8 more, he has reached the 15-point level. This brings him the gratitude of his friends, the accolade of the Club, and best of all, the fourth and final hat of the 2009-2010 award series.

We hope that you will be inspired to lead many exciting trips!  For clarifications,
or more information contact
Bill Priedhorsky.
 
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