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Brian McGarry
As summer dwindles to a close, we invite you to celebrate wilderness and the
change of seasons with the following fall events and activities.
In this issue:
1) SEPTEMBER 9TH REDROCK BENEFIT: A CELEBRATION OF UTAH WILDERNESS
2) ON-LINE AUCTION TO BENEFIT THE GOOD FOLKS AT NORTHERN LIGHTS MAGAZINE
3) DON'T MISS THE SUWA ROUNDUP, OCTOBER 4-6
4) JOIN OTHER SUWA MEMBERS FOR A LUXURIOUS TOUR THROUGH UTAH'S CANYON
COUNTRY
5) EXPLORE CEDAR MESA WITH SUWA
1) SEPTEMBER 9TH REDROCK BENEFIT: A CELEBRATION OF UTAH WILDERNESS
Please join us on Monday, September 9th in downtown Salt Lake City for the
2002 Redrock Benefit: A Celebration of Utah Wilderness!
Reception: 5:00-7:00PM, $75
Program: 7:30-10:00PM (doors open at 5:00PM for silent auction), $20
*All Proceeds Benefit SUWA*
RECEPTION
Metropolitan Restaurant, 173 West 300 South, Salt Lake City.
Mingle with some of the West's most beloved authors, artists, and activists:
Craig Childs, Jack Dykinga, Amy Irvine, Mary Sojourner, and Chip Ward.
Enjoy live, acoustic guitar music by Larry Pattis.
$75 per person, includes spirits and light dinner, plus admission to Program
at the Rose Wagner.
RSVP for Reception at the Metropolitan by Monday, September 2nd. Space is
limited.
Please call SUWA at (801) 486-3161 or go to www.suwa.org.
PROGRAM
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 West 300 South, Salt Lake City.
$20 per person, includes silent auction, program, live music, snacks, and
sundae bar.
For tickets to Program at the Rose Wagner, call ArtTix at (801) 355-ARTS,
(888) 451-ARTS or go to www.arttix.org. Tickets to Program will also be
available at the door.
For more information, call SUWA at (801) 486-3161 or go to www.suwa.org.
SILENT AUCTION
Highlights include a 5-day guided backcountry trip in Utah's canyon country
(for up to 8 people) with canyoneering legend Steve Allen; framed
photographs and artwork by Jack Dykinga, Aaron Goldenberg, Willamarie
Huelskamp, James Kay, David Muench, Tom Till, and others; outdoor clothing
and gear from Black Diamond Equipment, Patagonia, Petzl, REI, Voilé
Equipment, Wasatch Touring, and others; gift certificates for dining,
lodging, and canyon country adventures from Boulder Mountain Lodge, Far Out
Expeditions, Holiday Expeditions, and others; Sundance Film Festival
packages; books; jewelry; pottery; and much much more!
READINGS
Amy Irvine, from "Trespass," a memoir in progress
Chip Ward, "Diving into Soup for Fun and Profit"
Mary Sojourner, from "Bonelight: Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest"
Craig Childs, from "Soul of Nowhere"
SLIDE SHOW
Jack Dykinga, "Special Places"
Live music provided by the Melissa Warner Band, the Stacey Board Band, and
the Wendy Ohlwiler Band.
SPECIAL THANKS
to the many generous individuals and businesses that donated items to our
silent auction, and to our community sponsors: The Catalyst, City Weekly,
Discriminating Traveler, Eiffel Tower Fine Catering, Jess Giles Wallace
Design, The Metropolitan, Peery Hotel, Performance Audio, Premier Dining
Services, Red Rock Brewing Co., Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Squirrel
Brothers Ice Cream & Coffees, Wasatch Frame Shop, and Webb Audio Visual. We
appreciate your support!
We hope to see you on September 9th!
2) ON-LINE AUCTION TO BENEFIT THE GOOD FOLKS AT NORTHERN LIGHTS MAGAZINE
Northern Lights Magazine is committed to keeping a "light on the West" with
extraordinary stories and visual arts from some of the most courageous and
talented writers and artists of the West. This month, Northern Lights
magazine has organized an online auction to encourage support for writers
and artists and to help with publication costs.
Included in the auction will be David James Duncan's well-loved fly rod,
Russell Chatham lithographs, a Theodore Waddell oil painting, the fly rod
that Richard Brautigan used while writing Trout Fishing in America, a
Kendall Jan Jubb watercolor, hikes on old Indian trails later used by Lewis
and Clark, Terry Tempest Williams' old cowboy boots, and Rick Bass'
Yaak-brushed hiking shorts and boots, badly in need of resoling.
Also for auction: Brooke Williams will take you for a day-long hike along
the "Fertility Path" near Moab, followed by dinner, and Doug Peacock will
spend the day with you in Yellowstone, looking for mushrooms or grizzlies.
Pete Fromm will take you fishing on the Missouri River and Connie Poten will
take you sailing on Flathead Lake. You can bid to stay in cabins in
Gardiner, Montana or on a working cattle ranch in Colorado, and at bed and
breakfasts in Moab, Sequim, Missoula, Wolf Creek, Kettle Falls, and at Chico
Hot Springs. There are many more "experiences of a lifetime" offered, as
well as weekend retreats with writers, elk hunting in the San Juan
mountains, and a woodworking workshop.
In addition, there are lithographs, drawings, weavings, paintings,
sculpture, photography, and oil paintings by artists Monte Dolack, Mary Beth
Percival, Rudy Autio, James Todd, Sheila Miles, Dana Boussard, Barbara van
Cleve, Nancy Erickson, Michael McCurdy, and many others. Other literary
memorabilia includes drafts of poems, feathers, skulls, broadsides, rare
first edition and letterset books from, among others, Jim Harrison,
Stephanie Mills, Pattiann Rogers, Jane Hirshfield, Mark Spragg, Mary
Sojourner, Naomi Shihab Nye, Barry Lopez, and many, many others.
Allen Ginsberg's chair is up for bid, as a Western artifact from his time at
Naropa Institute in Colorado.
Northern Lights magazine has been published for 18 years in Missoula,
Montana. It is a journal committed to the landscapes and the culture of the
contemporary American West. Northern Lights has received 5 Pushcart Prizes
and 5 Utne Reader Alternative Press Awards for Best Overall Publication,
Best Art and Design, and Best Regional Reporting (3 times).
Auction viewing begins on Tuesday, August 27th, and bidding begins on
September 3rd, ending on September 27th.
Go to: http://www.northernlightsmag.org and click on the "On-line Auction"
link.
3) DON'T MISS THE SUWA ROUNDUP, OCTOBER 4-6
Each year, the SUWA Roundup offers our members the opportunity to meet SUWA
staff and enjoy the beautiful Indian summer of redrock country with fellow
desert rats from Utah and other states. Activities include an interactive
discussion of Utah wilderness issues with SUWA staff and board members, a
potluck dinner, evening music around the campfire, and-best of all-guided
day-hikes in our Muddy Creek proposed wilderness unit. Sunday morning
you'll awaken to the aroma of freshly brewed coffee followed by a hearty
breakfast prepared by SUWA staff in thanks for all your support and
dedication.
If you plan to attend, here's what you should bring along: a potluck dish
serving five people for Saturday evening (if you plan to partake with the
group), personal food for Friday evening and Saturday breakfast and lunch,
camping gear, plenty of drinking water (none is available on site),
utensils, folding chairs, and lanterns and tables to share with the crowd if
you have them. Feel free to bring your own musical instruments and favorite
libations, too. Access roads in the Swell are unpaved but generally well
maintained and there's plenty of room for camping at the old mine site and
landing strip where we'll converge. Please let us know if you're coming
this year so we can plan accordingly.
Directions to the Roundup can be found in the Spring/Summer issue of SUWA's
newsletter and also in the forthcoming Autumn issue. If you don't receive
our newsletter, or for more information, contact Margi Hoffmann at (801)
486-7639, ext. 20 or ma...@suwa.org.
4) JOIN OTHER SUWA MEMBERS FOR A LUXURIOUS TOUR THROUGH UTAH'S CANYON
COUNTRY
Long-time SUWA supporters and certified desert rats, Bob Helmes and Brooke
Williams, will take our members on an unforgettable tour of the Colorado
Plateau, from Boulder Mountain and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument, to the Burr Trail and Anasazi State Park, to Cedar Mesa and the
slickrock surrounding Moab. Days will be filled with hiking, exploring, and
daydreaming; evenings will be spent eating, drinking, and sleeping in style
at such luxurious establishments as the Boulder Mountain Lodge and Fry
Canyon Lodge (all of which are SUWA business members, we are proud to
report!).
The trip will cost $1,400 (includes all meals and transportation from Salt
Lake City) and is scheduled for October 12-18, 2002.
For more information, or to make your reservation, please contact Christy at
(801) 486-7639, ext.17, or chr...@suwa.org.
5) EXPLORE CEDAR MESA WITH SUWA
Join us for a rigorous week-long backpacking trip into the
archaeologically-rich region of Cedar Mesa in southeast Utah with
anthropologist Don Keller. The trip is scheduled to take place November
1-8, 2002. It's late in the season, so expect long nights and cool days.
SUWA, in partnership with the Four Corners School of Outdoor Education, is
offering this guided trip at a cost of $1,150 per person, which includes all
meals and transportation from the Four Corners School base camp, near
Monticello, Utah. Group size will be limited to eight, so register early.
scrape at mindspring dot com
wrote:
>Friends of Utah Wilderness,
>
>As summer dwindles to a close, we invite you to celebrate wilderness and the
>change of seasons with the following fall events and activities.
Man, do those folks know how to party or what? And for only $1400. I
can hear Kumbyah from here.
W.B.Lyttle
94 Husaberg FE350
02 Yamaha TT-R125L (youngun's)
88 F-150 (POS)
BRC, ARRA, USA-ALL and like that