| Who
We Are
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| Walter
Rosenthal
Honorary President |
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Nate
Greenberg
Vice President
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Walter
Rosenthal was the Snow and
Avalanche Analyst for Mammoth Mountain, a remote sensing expert
for the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
and a researcher at the |
Nate
Greenberg
has called the Eastside his home since 2000. Drawn here by the
acess to amazing terrain and quality of skiing, he has spend
a considerable amount of time exploring the snowy Sierra. |
Institute
of Computational Earth System Science, University of California,
Santa Barbara. He specialized in remote sensing of snow and
snowpack processes related to sintering and avalanches. As
a private consultant he provided operational
subresolution snow mapping algorithms and programs to the
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
from 1995 through 2002. Both the Army and the National Weather
Service’s National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing
Center employ his algorithms and are expanding their use to
daily operational snow cover maps over North America.
Walter
tragically lost his life while trying to save the lives of
others in 2005. He was a vital force in teh development of
the Center and will be dearly missed by us all.
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Nate is AAA Level III trainied and has worked as a NOLS instructor
for climbing and mountaineering. A former competitive telemark
skier, Nate now enjoys getting into the backcountry with friends
and family.
His
interest in disseminating quality information to the general
public helps motivate ESAC. Nate spends a great deal of time
on the Center's website, and helps coordinate the overall
operations of the Center.
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| Howie
Schwartz
Secretary |
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Robert
'SP' Parker
Treasurer |
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| Howie
Schwartz is
an AMGA/IFMGA certified ski and mountain guide based in Big Pine,
California. Howie guides skiing and mountain climbing trips year
round in the Sierra Nevada, the Alps, Alaska and other destinations.
He is an instructor/examiner for the American Mountain Guides
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Although
originally from New Zealand, SP
Parker has been a resident of the Eastern
Sierra since 1980. He is a full time professional guide leading
trips from Alaska to Patagonia but always returning to the Sierra
Nevada which he believes are some of the funnest mountains anywhere.
He is certified in rock, alpine |
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Association and is on the AMGA Technical Committee. He was a
founding member of the American Institute for Avalanche Research
and Education and leads AIARE level 1-3 avalanche courses. Howie
also trains AIARE instructors. Howie’s skiing relationship
with the Sierra started in the spring of 1996 on a basecamp
ski trip near Virginia Lakes. Since that time, this love affair
has all but ruined his otherwise productive professional life.
Howie has still not figured out what “Sierra Cement”
is, but he has heard some can be found up near Lake Tahoe. |
and ski disciplines by the American Mountain Guides Association
and is an internationally certified IFMGA guide. As part of
his guiding work he teaches avalanche courses as an AIARE level
instructor in the Sierra Nevada. Avalanche assessment is a daily
part of a guide's job and the snowy months find SP out in the
mountains on day trips or long trans-Sierra tours digging pits
in the snow and evaluating the potential for snow instabilities.
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| Sue
Burak
Avalanche Forecaster |
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Allan
Pietrasanta
Director
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| Sue
Burak enjoys big winters. Sue's
very first avalanche forecasting job was during the winter of
1982-83. Working many years as a state snow surveyor provided
ample opportunities to refine route finding skills and avalanche
awareness. Lately, winters find her |
It
was almost 25 years ago that Allan
Pietrasanta realized the need for an easier to
use, more protective case for his Pieps avalanche beacon. The
standard yellow thin cloth bag and shoestring necklace just
wasn’t cutting it, so he created high-tech padded pouches
that he |
| stressing
over avalanche conditions above the community of Aspendell where
she has been the avalanche
forecaster for Inyo County since 1998. She learned about snowpack
energy balance as a modeler for a NASA Antarctica project and
developed model input criteria for a physically based snow process
model. After the persistent depth hoar layer of 2004-2005, she
was inspired to finish writing a research paper on eastern Sierra
avalanche climatology. |
was
able to use in trade for payment to complete one the first avalanche
courses taught in Mammoth. While the beacon case project helped
increase his avalanche awareness, it was also the roots of a
sewing manufacturing company, ABCOM/Buttermilk Mountain Works,
that Allan owned and operated for over two decades in Bishop.
Allan has left ski tracks in the High Sierra and other mountain
ranges of the world, and continues to celebrate the joys of
backcountry skiing and its contributions to world piste. He
combines his interest in business, his past experience as a
mountain guide and early Board member of the American Mountain
Guides Association to help ensure a bright future for ESAC.
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| Forrest
Cross
Membership Director
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Bob
Harrington
Director |
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| Forrest
Cross has been visiting the Eastern Sierra for almost 10 years
and has lived here for the last 5 years. One of the main reasons
he lives here is for the |
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endless backcountry skiing opportunities during
the winter months. For the last 15 years he has been backcountry
skiing in the mountains of Northern California and the Sierra.
He has completed a level 2 AIARE course and has taught avalanche
awareness to guides for Outdoor Adventures at UC Davis. When not
playing in the hills, Forrest works as an engineer for the Mammoth
Community Water District and helps monitor all the runoff that
the winter snows produce. Forrest enjoys being involved with ESAC
and helping to spread the word of avalanche safety in the Eastern
Sierra. As Membership Director he keeps tabs on membership numbers
and maintains the member email list-serve. |
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Scott
Quirsfeld
Director |
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| ESAC
Documents |
| Non-Profit Articles
of Incorporation, 2005 |
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| ESAC Bylaws |
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| Background Information |
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| Draft
Business Plan (ESAC) |
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| Board
of Director's Meeting Minutes |
BOD Meeting
#1
April 24, 2005 - 6:30pm - Swall Meadows |
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BOD Meeting
#2
June 26, 2005 - 6:00pm - Sunny Slopes |
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BOD Meeting
#3
September 5, 2005 - 6:30pm
Mammoth Lakes |
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BOD Meeting
#4
October 18, 2005 - 6:30pm
Mammoth Lakes, USFS |
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BOD Meeting
#5
November 16, 2005 - 6:30pm
Sunny Slopes |
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BOD Meeting
#6
December 7, 2005 - 6:00pm
Big Pine |
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BOD
Meeting #7
February 24, 2006 - 6:00pm
Tom's Place |
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BOD
Meeting #11
November 11, 2006
Bishop |
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| 2004
Planning Team Meeting Minutes |
| September
15, 2004 - 6:30pm - INF Conf. Rm. |
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| August
11, 2004 - 6:30pm - INF Conf. Room |
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| July 23, 2004 - 6:30pm
- INF Visitor Ctr. |
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| Getting
Involved |
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If you are interested in getting involved, please contact
us. |
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