Happy New Year! Every new year comes with hope for a new beginning, and this year GLS has even more reason to expect a particularly good year. We have a full schedule already, including some new urban outings, a car camp, and some backpacking trips. Even better, we have at least two provisional hikes scheduled. If you don’t know what a provisional hike is, it’s a hike on which the leader is evaluated by the co-leader in order to qualify as a leader with the local Sierra Club chapter.
This is an important event, usually the final step in qualifying, and the candidate needs a certain number of participants to qualify, as well as passing other criteria on that day. Please, please, come out and support our provisional leaders! Let them, and the chapter evaluating committee, see the level of support and commitment we have here in GLS. I’m pleased to introduce all our new leader candidates: Jan McInnis, Kyla Hjertstedt, Tammie Barta, Gina
Masequesmay, Kellie Cowles, and Carol Jeffcoate. Thank you all for stepping up to help lead GLS, and thank you, too, to all the co-leaders who will be evaluating them- it’s a commitment of time and energy and a real responsibility, and I know we all appreciate your hard work.
Happy 2015, Everyone!
Marie Ammerman
