Portland Blogs

  • Request for Nominees for Board Positions Mike Greenstreet Jan 26 2011 - 10:58am 1 year 4 days ago Read the whole blog>>>

    Nominees for Portland Chapter Board of Directors

     

    In April, 2011, the Portland chapter will elect three new board members to two year positions. Qualifications are basically a love of cross country skiing , a desire to give back to the club, a few hours of your time each month, and good judgement and communication skills. The club's future depends on member participation, whether it is through work on the Tilly Jane A frame, helping with the new internet platform,...

    Mike, well done with the Q&A. ...

  • La Nina Tom K Sep 18 2010 - 11:01am 1 year 19 weeks ago Read the whole blog>>>

    So we'll see how the weather forecasters do. Wetter winter? but what about temps? I didn't get enough summer this year, and am hoping for a dry warm October.

  • Insurance Coverage Mike Greenstreet May 18 2010 - 12:00pm 1 year 31 weeks ago Read the whole blog>>>

    As a new board member and newly elected president of the Portland chapter, one of my first chores has been to review the duties of the President as outlined in our new by-laws. Sadly I learned that one of these duties includes the review of Directors and Officers liability coverage which I expanded to review the coverage for tour leaders. This required reading many many pages of insurance legalese on a computer monitor-do not try this at home!! My next attempt will involve printing out...

    I plowed through it in about 1996.  My...