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Don Ryan - Valley of the Kings Project
Luxor, Egypt (25.41N / 32.38E)
Belated congratulations to Don Ryan for leading his 9th flag expedition in 2006. - This expedition was his 6th expedition to the Valley of Kings to investigate, document and conserve a series of tombs.
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Michele Westmoreland & Karen Hunt
 Chapter members Michele Westmorland and Karen Hunt are putting together a TV program on their Headhunt Revisited project.
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Welcome New Members!
Jim & Jamie Dutchers
We extend a warm welcome to Emmy Award winning film makers Jim and Jamie Dutchers.
Together they created the Discovery Channel's most successful wildlife documentary, Wolves at Our Door.
Their work documenting the wolves of the Sawtooth mountains led them to form the Living with Wolves Foundation, A non-profit in Idaho. www.livingwithwolves.org
They live at the edge of a wild pond in Ketchum, Idaho where their neighbors are flying squirrels, ducks, deer and blackbears.
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Congratulations!
Ron Strickland and Christine (Tine) Hartmann.
Many many warm congratulations go out to Ron and Christine who were married in Bedford, MA on March 19th, 2006.
For more info about how they met and other details visit their page on the knot
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Erden Eruc
Preparations continue for his voyage rowing to Australia.
Soon, Erden Eruç will be resuming his Six Summits Project by attempting to reach the summit of Kosciuszko in Australia from Seattle. His goal is to reach the highest summits on five other continents in memory of Göran Kropp during a human powered circumnavigation, and to build educational activities around his journey. Eruç defines a circumnavigation as a unique around-the-world surface journey as does Guinness book of records, which requires crossing the Equator and reaching at least one pair of antipodal points.
The journey to the second summit on his list, Kosciuszko, will require
bicycling over land and an estimated 8 month solo effort in a 23 foot
ocean rowing boat from San Francisco to Australia’s eastern shores.
You can follow his journey at: www.Around-n-Over.org
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IMAX: The Alps with John Harlan
Now Playing at the Pacific Science Center & Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
John Harlan stars in a new Imax film about the Alps and his personal history with these stunning mountians.
The Alps, is playing currently in both Seattle and Portland so go check it out today! For more information visit the following web sites:
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Sea Kayaking with Ice Bears - Nigel Foster - RESERVE NOW!
April 28th 2007 - 6pm - Center for Wooden Boats
Join the Members of the
Explorers Club and the Center for Wooden Boats for a evening lecture by
Nigel Foster.
Where: The Center For Wooden Boats, 1010 Valley Street,
Seattle WA, 98109
(Click for Map)
When: April 28, 6:00 pm
Cost: $12.00 (light dinner and wine included)
or reserve
and pay for your ticket online now using below.
In 2004 Nigel Foster and Kristin Nelson set off into Hudson Strait on a journey that would take them northeast around Ungava Bay to the northern tip of Labrador, then south along the Labrador coast to the settlement of Nain. they expected the forty-foot tidal range in Ungava Bay, squalling winds from the mountains of Labrador, and the fog recorded one day out of two around the entrance to Hudson Strait. They expected to be alone. There are no inhabitants along the 650 mile route, so they carried 5-weeks supply of food. What they did not so much expect, and what made their trip most memorable were numerous encounters with polar bears.
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Save the Date:
Lecture by Dan Mazur
July 7th - E.B. Foote Winery
Featured on the cover of the Sunday Times magazine, Explorers Club Fellow Dan Mazur will speak on his climbing expeditions. July 7, 2007 in the evening at E.B. Foote Winery
Stay tuned for further details.
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Dues - Bios and Publications:
Improving our website
Dues:
If you haven't yet payed your chapter dues please take this opportunity to pay online utilizing Paypal.
Additionally we have started collecting bios and will be happy to put your bio up on the website. Please email Matthew.Stubbs@loudmonks.com with a short bio and digital picture.
Publications:
We will also be adding a bibliography of our members books and articles to our website, demonstrating the wide range of expertise of our members. Please provide a list of your publications via email along with your bios.
If any of your publications are available on Amazon.com. We ask that you provide the ISBN Number, as we are able to link to them possibly generating some income for our chapter.
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