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Lead any trip and get an
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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.
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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.
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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
logo below
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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?"
See Modern Mountaineers
logo below
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Third hat
7 points
(cumulative):
Extreme outdoor flap hat, stone, with our modernized
logo and the saying "Fearless
Leader"
See Modern Mountaineers
logo below
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Fourth hat
15 points
(cumulative): Eco fleece winter cap, navy, with
the Mountaineers classic logo.
See Classic Mountaineers
logo below
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Modern Mountaineers
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Classic Mountaineers
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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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