About us
Friends and members of the Sierra Club,
Thank you for choosing to join us on one of our outings - a 100+ year tradition of the Sierra Club! For many decades, volunteers of our local group, the Great Basin Group, have lead outings throughout the region. Areas of the region include the greater Reno area, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and the vast interior of the state of Nevada.
We are not "just another Meetup group." The Sierra Club has been in existence for more than 125 years. Our mission is to "Explore, enjoy, and protect the planet." Our volunteer outings leaders will, at a minimum, have basic first aid training and complete a mentoring process with veteran outings leaders before becoming leaders themselves. That is the minimum that you can expect. Many of our outings leaders will have decades of experience leading outings in our region and have many wonderful outdoor secrets to share with you!
Almost all trips posted on this website are Sierra Club outings - all participants must sign a Sierra Club Sign-in Sheet and Liability Waiver at the trailhead before we begin each outing. If you have any question about the difficulty of the outing and whether you have the appropriate fitness, and/or equipment to participate, contact the outing leader before the day of the outing. During the outing, expect to remain with the outings leader during the entire outing, unless there is a co-leader (this is for safety and liability reasons). If you plan on bringing a dog, please ask the outing leader of the trip for permission and special instructions before the day of the outing.
You do not have to be a Sierra Club member to participate in our outings.
All participants will be given the opportunity to donate $1 to the Sierra Club Great Basin Group each time they join us for an outing. This will help to fund our outings leader training programs.
Obviously our and the National Club's priority is your and your family's safety, as well as fulfilling our mission to get people outdoors!
Join us on facebook here:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/scgbg/
Learn more about the Great Basin Group here:
http://www.sierraclub.org/toiyabe/great-basin
Join the Sierra Club here (when you see the opportunity, enter our group code "1401"):
http://www.sierraclub.org/
If you are interested in becoming an outings leader for the Great Basin Group, contact me at:
renovno@gmail.com
Hopefully, we will meet out on the trail soon!
Bernard Vienneau
Outings Chair - Great Basin Group
"We Get You Outdoors"
Upcoming events
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Thursday Evening Hike -- Reno River Walk
450 Sinclair St, Reno, NV, USStay in shape with a hike of 3 miles along the Reno River Walk.
This is a warm-up hike before the Sierra Club meeting at this same locale.
We will hike for about 1-1/2 hour and then stop for happy hour at one of the watering holes along the Truckee River.
Elevation gain up to 30 feet. Easy. ND (No dogs).Since this is a Sierra Club hike, we ask you to sign our liability waiver before
the hike and donate $1 to help cover First Aid Training for all our leaders.
If you want to review the Sierra Club Sign-Up and Participant Agreement in advance, see pages 3-4 at: https://bit.ly/3zN1Jl0Leader: River Walker
Co-Leader: Cris G.8 attendees
March Program Meeting
UNR Innevation Center, 450 Sinclair St, Reno, NV, USThe March program meeting of the Sierra Club Great Basin Group will be on Thursday, March 12, at UNR’s Innevation Center In Reno. The topic:
"The Importance Of Soil Nutrients and Compost For Nevada Soils"
presented by Cody Witt.
The doors will open at 6:30 for socializing, and the hour-long program will begin at 7 PM.The Innevation Center is located at 450 Sinclair St, Reno, NV 89501.
Can't make the meeting in person? Watch via Zoom at 7 PM:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86162957990?pwd=52cQ7tfZCEKRtwjbiVwL1Ubded8W3a.1Cody will present a brief dive into Nevada soil nutrient balancing to understand the "wants and needs" of the soil to increase nutritional density, water holding capacity, and biological activity. He will cover interpreting soil tests, using composts and soil amendments to balance and increase native Nevada soil nutrient capacity. These concepts can be applied to small and large projects from back-yard gardening to large-scale agriculture.
Cody Witt owns and operates Full Circle Compost in Carson City. Full Circle recycles over 50,000,000 lbs. of organic materials every year. Cody helps create “Full Circle” environmental networks where partners establish a fully sustainable community of suppliers and producers through organic materials recycling, soil fertility program implementation, sustainable food and medicine production, and education. Cody is a fifth-generation Nevada dairy farmer turned composter who earned his undergraduate and graduate degree (MBA) from UNR.
Hope you will be able to join us on 3/12.
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