Please join us for our monthly membership meeting at the BP Energy Center. During the meeting, members will have the opportunity to meet with other members, learn about the latest MCA news, and hear from this month’s presenter, Gerrit Verbeek.

Presentation: "Choss Lore - Mental Exploration of Alaska's Backcountry"

The names of the peaks, rivers, and other geographic features around us have a huge influence on how we think about them. Consider how different Alaska would feel if "Cook Inlet" was called "Sandwich Sound" (its first English name), how different it feels to climb "Peril Peak" versus "Boy Scout Rock," or how some names seize your attention the moment you first hear them and draw you to explore a particular area. Each name has a story behind it, but those stories are frequently buried or hidden. Choss Lore is a project to track down and collect the stories behind geographic place names in southcentral Alaska.