CSUSB Outdoors is proud to host the 2008 Western Regional Outdoor Leadership Conference on the California State University, San Bernardino campus on the weekend of Friday, February 8th to Sunday, February 10th. The 16th annual WROLC is a student directed conference open to all university outdoor programs in the Western United States (although everyone is welcome to attend regardless of where you are based).
Highlights of the 2008 conference include a summer outdoor job fair for students, a vendor hall with equipment concessionaires, a Photography Expo and Climbing Competition, a Movie Festival, and over thirty sessions covering topics ranging from safety management, marketing, cooperative programming, and access.
CSUSB is located between Los Angeles and Palm Spring near the I-10, I-15 and I-215 interchanges. Our location at the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains and proximity to the beaches of Southern California, crags of Joshua Tree, peaks of the Sierra Nevada Range lends itself to outdoor adventure pre or post conference.
The conference will be held on campus at the Santos Manuel Student Union and in the Student Recreation and Fitness Center. Sleeping space on the gym floor of the SFRC and showers are provided.
We encourage you to become involved with WROLC by attending the conference, presenting, or helping us develop resources on the wrolc.org website. Thanks and we look forward to hearing from you soon.
5500 University Parkway
San Bernardino, CA 92407
http://camp.csusb.edu
(909) 537-CAMP
Keynote Speaker- Mike Libecki
We are happy to announce that Mountain Hardwear athlete Mike Libecki will be our keynote speaker at Saturday night’s banquet. “Mike spends most of his time traveling to the most remote, exotic and untouched locations on the planet to pursue his passion of big wall and alpine first ascents, traverses, and other offbeat adventures, many of them completely alone. Libecki has established multiple first ascents in such areas as Baffin Island, Greenland, China, Madagascar, Kyrgysztan, Venezuela, and Antarctica. He made the first traverse across the Taklamakan Desert in Western China, also known as the “Sea of Death” by the local people.”
Registration
order to make this year’s WROLC a great one we need you to attend (please consider presenting). You can download the registration/presenters form. Note: All payments must be made by check or in person.
Climbing Competition
Bring your climbing shoes and harness because we will be having a climbing competition! Space is limited to the first 24 to sign-up. We will have a women’s and men’s category. We have great prizes for the winners. You can win a pair of Five.Ten shoes, Evolve shoes, and more.
Photo Contest
The contest details are now up on the website. Please submit your photos before coming to the conference or bring an 8” x 10” to the conference. We have four categories to compete in and the winners will receive a one year professional account with smugmug.com.
Film Contest
Another Contest? You bet! Please bring a video in DVD format to show at the banquet dinner on Saturday night. The winner of the contest will receive a DVD package courtesy of Sender Films. Films need to have an outdoor theme and we will only be able to show 5 minutes or less of each film. One entry per person.
Geocache
We have a couple GPS workshops planned as well as a Geocache scavenger hunt. Please bring you GPS if you want to partake. Sign-up and find out the details at the registration check-in table.
Dutch Oven
As tradition, we will be having a Dutch oven potluck on Friday night. Please bring your best recipes and be ready to share you creations with the group. CSUSB will provide all the coals you need as well as a cleaning station.
Directions
Our address is 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA, 92407. Once you arrive to campus turn right on Northpark Dr., after a couple lights turn left on Coyote Dr. The Student Recreation and Fitness Center is the ahead on the right. If you need to be picked up at the airport please let us know.
Lodging and Accommodations
Gym floor sleeping space is included with registration. You will also have access to the fitness center’s showers and sauna. You are free to find other accommodations. Our address is 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA, 92407 if you would like to search for local hotels.
Sponsors and Donations
We would like to thank those who have generously donated to our gathering so far.
- Entre Prises Climbing Walls
- Mountain Hardwear
- Gorilla Marketing
- Smug Mug
- Thresh Hold Climbing Gyms
- Wilderness Press
- Patagonia
- Five Ten
- Evolve Shoes
More to come…
Great Training Opportunity!
Top Rope Climbing Instructor Course right after WROLC in Joshua Tree 2/11-14/08
Professional Climbing Instructors Association - Base Managed Climbing Instructor course
The course is designed to benefit outdoor instructors, aspiring guides, and climbers who facilitate or seek to facilitate top rope climbing programs in group settings such as camps, schools, universities, therapeutic groups, and climbing schools. It is intended for recreational climbers who are already proficient in top rope climbing. The intent is to help transition already capable recreational climbers into climbing instructors. The course focuses on the learning and application of technical skills as they are applied in top rope climbing instruction. The course also addresses fundamental educational and environmental principles as they relate to teaching climbing. The course is 3 days in length with an optional exam on the fourth day. For more information contact:
Contact about this training.
- Alan Jolley
- American Climbing Institute
- POB 1453
- Nederland CO 80466
- (303) 570-5227
- info@americanclimbinginstitute.org