About
About the Alpine Club
The Caltech Alpine Club organizes outdoor trips and film screenings for the Caltech community.
What we do
Getting people outside
The club organizes hiking, backpacking, trail running, climbing, and other outdoor trips, and keeps a stock of equipment members can borrow. What runs in a given year depends on who is leading it, so the calendar is the best guide to what is happening now.
The club also hosts the Banff Mountain Film Festival on campus each year, along with other mountain film screenings and talks by members and visiting climbers.
Members are graduate students, undergraduates, postdocs, faculty, staff, and JPL employees, and range from experienced mountaineers to people on their first outdoor trip.
The club was founded in 1987, but club records suggest Caltech outdoor trips go back to around 1950.
“To foster the Caltech outdoor community by encouraging mentorship, responsibility, inclusivity, and radness.”
Who to ask
Officers
Officers are volunteers, elected each year. Contact any of them with questions.
Steering Committee
Sponsorships, member discounts, and pro deals
[email protected]Activity Leaders
Climbing trips and the bouldering wall
Hiking and backpacking trips
[email protected]
Not sure who to ask? Write to [email protected] and it will reach an officer.
Past officers
Through 2026
- Daniel Van Beveren Co-President
- Abby Keebler Film Festival Coordinator
- Tina Seeger Film Festival Coordinator
- Noel Csomay-Shanklin Talks Coordinator
- Aubrey Schonhoff Tyrant of Trail Running
Contact
Contact the club
- Anything at all
- [email protected] Reaches the current officers.
- Membership
- [email protected] Including requests to join from outside Caltech and JPL — see how to ask.
- A particular activity
- Find the officer who looks after it