AAC Represents at Yosemite Facelift
October 2007Special AAC Yosemite Facelift T-shirt designed by Scott Sawyer
The Sierra Nevada Section put in a big show of support for this year’s Yosemite Facelift, from September 26 to 30. We were please to help Ken Yager and his Yosemite Climbing Association once again pull off an incredible clean-up. You can link to national media coverage of the event at the YCA site. Check out these numbers and you can’t help but be inspired by the power of a grassroots effort:
• 2,945 volunteers contributing 18,335 man hours
• $344,148: the National Park Service value of the work done
• 132 miles of roadway cleaned
• 80-plus miles of trails cleaned
• 42,330 pounds (over 21 tons) of trash collected, and everything that could be was recycled.
In addition to trash-collecting volunteers, the AAC and the Sierra Nevada Section contributed 300 T-shirts featuring the graphic shown above (designed by our own Scott Sawyer). We sponsored one of the evening slide shows, with Royal Robbins and Tom Frost presenting a film of their ascent of the West Face of the Sentinel. And we had AAC schwag available as prizes at evening festivities.
Of special note, Sierra Nevada Section member George Ridgley has been a right-hand man to Ken Yager in organizing and running this event. Nice work George! The Facelift is an awesome opportunity to preserve Yosemite, share in and give back to the climbing community, and of course do some climbing. Don’t miss it next year.