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About Us
Part of the largest grassroots environmental organization
in the country, Sierra Club Outings provides
high-quality outdoor adventures—from Tahoe to Tibet—for
people of all
ages, abilities, and interests.
We've
been doing it for more
than a century, ever since Sierra Club
founder John
Muir discovered
an essential truth while out hiking the high country: If you
want people to go to bat for the environment,
he realized, you've
got
to get
them out into the wilderness. "If people in general could
be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak
for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation
would vanish," he said back in 1901.
That's
always been the guiding principle here, and it's resulted in
a lot of excellent trips, year after year.
There's another thing, though, that sets our program
apart: the volunteer
leaders who scout, plan, and lead all of our outings.
Nobody pays them for their efforts. Rather, they do it out of a
sheer love for the land.
Got a question about a trip? The leaders have the answers,
and are more than willing to fill you in. Just check the biographies
at the bottom of each of our trip
brochures for leader e-mail
addresses. If you'd prefer to speak to a leader by phone, just
contact
us and we'll set you up.
There's
no shortage of reasons to travel with us, but here's a final
one. No matter where we are—whether
swinging from a zip line in Costa Rica, repairing a trail in
New Mexico,
or
puffing
up a switchback in the Cascades—we never forget the Sierra
Club's mission: to explore, enjoy, and protect the planet.
Over the years, we've found that these ideals mesh
pretty well. Why not join
us on a trip and find out for yourself?
Happy travels!
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