Building the Sierra Club Outings Program
Jan Hoffmaster
The Maryland Chapter hopes to reestablish the Chapter Outings
Committee. The purpose of the committee will be to promote the
coordination and sharing of outings information between chapter groups
and other entities; ensure safety and leader training; build and expand
the outings program and activities; and support conservation efforts by
encouraging the alignment of outings with conservation issues. The
committee will be composed of the state outings chair and group outings
chairs or group reps, and others interested in helping to build the
Maryland Sierra Club outings program.
One of the first projects of the committee will be an attempt at
creating a user-friendly, statewide database containing a current list
of all group outings. So if people want to, for example, go kayaking
this weekend, they can query the database asking “Are there any Sierra
Club kayak outings this weekend?” rather than have to search the
individual websites of all nine Maryland groups.
If any of you are techie-smart and have some thoughts or ideas and
could help us in this endeavor, please contact me at
JHoff2370@verizon.net.
Also, for outings leaders and those who are thinking about becoming an
outings leader, the Howard County Sierra Club is hosting a Wilderness
First Aid course on the weekend of 16-17 January 2010. For more info,
visit the outings section of the Howard County website
www.maryland.sierraclub.org/hc/ .
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