Plans are under way for a great day of exciting workshops. Our workshops will help you enhance your knowledge on AMC's efforts in the Mid-Atlantic region, have fun with the family in the out-of-doors, or how to take that perfect picture. Come for all or part of the day - there's something for everyone.
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Annual Meeting 2010 Workshops |
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Adventuring and Hiking Around the World
Participants in AMC's Major Excursions Adventure Travel program enjoy hiking, trekking, biking, skiing and other activities in exciting year-round U.S. and international destinations on trained volunteer-led trips. The presentation will feature recent trips and will describe how you too can experience beautiful landscapes, physical challenges, different cultures, ecology and conservation.
Adventure Travel with Families
Have you ever thought that you have to give up on adventure when kids join the family? Think again. Bring the kids along to enjoy this presentation about the joys of big travel with the whole family. Leaders will share their experiences and photos of their favorite outdoor adventures with kids ranging in age from toddlers to teens. Good tips and encouragement are all you need to pack up the family and get back into the great outdoors.
AMC's Favorite Trail Games
A participatory session of trail games that really keep the kids moving. Note: this workshop will be held during the Business Meeting.
AMC's Historical Film Fest
Grab some popcorn, sit back, and enjoy the show! Librarian and Archivist Becky Fullerton will present historic films from the AMC's collections. The Library and Archives are home to numerous old film reels that have recently been transferred to DVD. These range from "home movies" of AMC trips to the White Mountains in the 1930s to hikes on Katahdin in the 1940s to whitewater paddling in the early 1970s. Some are narrated, others are silent, but all have fascinating stories to tell about the way we were! This is not your typical movie theater experience - questions and comments are encouraged!
Climate Change for Families
Bring the family for an interactive workshop about how climate change is affecting New England's mountains, waters, and trails, and what you can do at home to reverse the trends. This program includes an overview of how climate change works and what it will look like here in New England over the next 100 years. Most importantly, it explores what individuals, families, and communities can do to reduce their emissions and get the word out that everyone needs to take part to improve the health of our world. It's a call to action. Appropriate for ages 10 and up.
End Overfishing in New England
A general overview of the important role Atlantic herring play in the ecosystem and a brief history of the fishery. Presentation also includes problems associated with the mid-water trawl fleet, including inadequate monitoring, by-catch concerns and localized depletion.
Get Real and Get Active About Climate Change
You've heard the buzz words: cap and trade, offsets, carbon sequestration. You may know about RGGI and the American Clean Energy Security Act/Waxman-Markey bill, but here is your chance to hear AMC's staff bring it all together. From federal legislation to our new Even Greener fund, learn how you can take part in AMC's climate change work as an individual and in your community.
Getting Out into the Highlands - A Model for Recreation and Conservation in AMC's Mid-Atlantic Region
This workshop will focus on AMC's innovative efforts to conserve natural resources and increase recreational opportunities in the Mid-Atlantic Highlands (PA, NJ, NY, and CT). This past year, AMC successfully launched a campaign to create the Pennsylvania Highlands Trail Network, an envisioned 100+ mile trail that will traverse the 13-county Pennsylvania Highlands and will extend the 150-mile Highlands Trail in New Jersey and New York. Also discussed will be new Highlands' recreation publications and events including: Hike the Highlands cards, featuring 22 hikes throughout the PA Highlands, a Highlands scavenger hunt, a Pennsylvania Highlands Regional Recreation Map and Guide and a soon-to-be released AMC's Best Day Hikes Near Philadelphia.
How to Build a Hut
Stemming from the recent efforts to construct and open Galehead Hut in 2000 and upcoming renovations planned for Madison Hut in 2010, the presentation will be a step-by-step, behind the curtain look at the process from permits and approvals to actual construction, planning the amenities, considering traditions and opportunities, and opening festivities. A terrific opportunity to understand what it takes to maintain our traditions of mountain hospitality in high places, how the efforts have changed over the years, and how you can be a part of AMC history!
How to Take Award Winning Photographs
Join professional photographer Jerry Monkman in a discussion about outdoor photography. Using several of the top entries in this year's AMC Outdoors photo contest, Jerry - a long-time contest judge - will share his top ten never-fail tips for making great outdoor photos. Drawing from 15 years of experience documenting the northeast's wild places, he will discuss what separates these award-winning images from the field and how you can apply some of the same techniques on your next excursion.
Mount McKinley - a.k.a. Denali - in Appalachia Journal
Take an armchair trip to the slopes of North America's highest mountain as the journal Appalachia has followed the exploits of climbers there since 1906. Appalachia Journal Editor Christine Woodside will tell of how the journal has remained fascinated with the triumphs, controversies, and tragedies on this peak in the Alaska Range from the days before anyone had climbed it to now. Hear about the famous Dr. Frederick Cook controversy - he claimed to summited in 1906, a story later discredited by many, including the AMC giant, Bradford Washburn. Washburn, along with his wife, Barbara, made McKinley history with their West Buttress expedition in 1951. Woodside will even discuss why the journal's style is to call the mountain McKinley, as it has been officially named since 1914.
New England National Scenic Trail
Massachusetts and Connecticut are home to the first National Scenic Trail to be designated in 26 years. The New England National Scenic Trail follows much of the Metacomet-Monadnock-Mattabesett Trail System. Come learn about what you can find along this trail and plans for managing it under its new nationally significant status.
Realizing a Conservation and Recreation Vision for Maine's 100-Mile Wilderness
Maine's 100-Mile Wilderness region is named for the remote section of the Appalachian Trail leading to Katahdin and Baxter State Park - the northern terminus of the 2,175-mile trail. In the last six years, extraordinary progress has been made in land conservation and creation of outdoor recreation opportunities, but threats remain. See spectacular photos and maps and hear the stories of AMC's path to owning 67,000 acres in the heart of the region, and find out what lies ahead for challenges and opportunities for conservation in the largest contiguous forested region in the eastern United States.
Trail Mapping with High-End GPS
The challenges of data collection with GPS in backcountry terrain. How we use industrial grade GPS equipment and software to build the trails data that we use in the AMC maps.
Trail Tools and Chainsaw Maintenance
Learn how to keep your trail work tools in top shape so that they work for you rather than against you. Hands on demonstrations will be shown on chainsaws and most hand trail tools. This is a great workshop for all trail workers and "do it yourself" landowners both experienced and new. Expert instruction from trail professionals.
SOLO Wilderness First Aid
(Description coming soon.)
Staying Found
When heading out into the woods, no one intends to get lost. Usually a series of circumstances contributes to a child getting separated from their group. This workshop talks to kids and their parents about the principles of preparation and safe travel in the woods, as well as what kids can do if they get lost. The workshop includes a video and hands on activities for parents and kids, as well as a demonstration of what every kid should carry into the woods so they can stay Safe and Found.
Workshops will run in one hour blocks starting at 1:00pm and ending at 4:00pm.
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