Action Committee for Eldorado Board Application

The Action Committee for Eldorado (ACE) is currently seeking climbers interested in serving on the Action Committee Board. The board currently stands at nine members, including representatives from the American Alpine Club, the Access Fund, the American Mountain Guides Association, and the Colorado Mountain Club, and five at large members. Terms are three years.

The ACE holds periodic meetings, currently on the second Wednesday of each month. Board members must attend these meetings and should expect to volunteer approximately forty additional hours of service per year. ACE also periodically engages in special service projects for the Park, and additional time may be required for these projects. If you are interested in helping to preserve and enhance the quality and diversity of climbing opportunities in the Eldorado Canyon State Park, please fill out and submit the following application via email to board@ACEEldo.org.

Applicants selected to serve on the Board will be notified by phone or email.

Please print or write legibly.

1. Please state your name, address, phone numbers (home and work), and email address.

2. What do you do for a living? Please describe your current job, employer and level of education.

3. How long have you climbed? Please describe when and where you started trad climbing, sport climbing, and climbing in Eldorado. Identify (include the names and grades) of your hardest lead climbs in trad, sport, and Eldorado, and the years you did them. What is your favorite climb and why?

4. Additional climbing background
Please describe in detail your experience with the following (if any): number, grade range, type (sport and/or trad) and location of first ascents; experience as a climbing instructor or guide; employment in a climbing gym; membership in a climbing organization; volunteering with any climbing organizations; your thoughts on sport vs. trad climbing; your opinion about the addition of new routes in Eldorado Canyon requiring fixed hardware; replacing tree belay anchors with fixed hardware; any other views you would like to share.

5. Please describe in detail your past experiences with non-profit organizations, especially outdoor-oriented ones, including, volunteer work, membership, employment as a staff member, number of hours you worked, etc. Please provide detailed information on your activities and the extent of your involvement and significant contributions.

6 Please describe in detail why you want to serve on the ACE Board. ACE meets once a month for 2-3 hours and and on average requires 5-10 hours of additional work each month. Can you commit to and provide this amount of time?

7. Please describe what you think ACE does well. What could ACE do better? How and in what ways do you think that the climbing environment in Eldorado Canyon could be improved? What would you like to see ACE accomplish over the next year? 3 years? 5 years?

8. If ACE had $5,000 to donate to the Park, describe in detail how you would spend it.

9. Please describe in detail what qualifications you think should be required of Board members? For each qualification you listed, please describe in detail how you meet it.

10. Please describe in detail how you would like to see environmental and climber conflicts resolved. What level of protection, if any, should be provided to animals or plants that are on federal threatened or endangered lists? To animals or plants that are not and have never been on federal threatened or endangered lists?

11. Please list the names of 3 climbers who climb in Eldorado and know you well and include their phone numbers and email addresses.

Thanks for your interest and willingness to work to keep Eldorado a great place for climbers.

revised 17 November 2006