Seattle Branch

Our Seattle Branch is the largest of The Mountaineers branches. Leaders of its 18 activity committees schedule over a thousand activities a year and over a hundred courses and seminars.

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BeWild: Andrew Mclean, Skiing the 'Alaska Family' - September 20

Join us on September 20, 2018 to hear Andrew Mclean's stories from summiting and skiing down the Alaska Family of peaks Father Denali, Mother Sultanan and the child Mt. Hunter.

Join us at the 2018 Wilderness Risk Management Conference!

Each year, The Mountaineers brings a handful of our volunteers to the Wilderness Risk Management Conference. Learn more about this year’s conference – held on October 3-5 in Portland, OR – and apply to attend as a representative of The Mountaineers!

The Communications Devices We Carry

This summer, a group of Mountaineers sea kayakers will set-out for a three-week trip down the west coast of Vancouver Island. Learn about the communication and emergency signalling devices we are carrying on our trip, and how we plan to use them.

Wildfire: On the Front Lines with Station 8

In this interview with Heather Hansen, the author of "Wildfire", she talks about being embedded with a Boulder-based wildlands fire crew, and the problems and potential solutions of increasingly larger wildfires.