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Sierra Club's mission to "explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth." Advocacy and public education are core purposes of our outings.
Outings are open to Sierra Club members and non-members alike. The Sierra Club does not charge a fee to participate in local outings. All are welcome - your income, religion, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender, or age do not matter. However, some of our outings are geared towards adults while others are more family-friendly and child-oriented.
Our volunteer outings leaders will, at a minimum, have basic first aid training and go through a mentoring process with veteran outings leaders before becoming outings leaders themselves.
Trips posted on this group are Sierra Club outings - all participants must sign a Sierra Club Liability Waiver online ahead (or in-person at the start). 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.
Learn more about Sierra Club Massachusetts here:
https://www.sierraclub.org/massachusetts
If you are interested in becoming an outings leader for the Massachusetts Chapter, contact celeste.venolia@sierraclub.org
Upcoming events
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Blue Hills: PFAS Educational Outing
Houghton’s Pond Parking Area, 825 Hillside Street ,, Milton, MA, USJoin us on Saturday November 22nd in the beautiful Blue Hills to learn about PFAS (forever chemicals) in MA and ways to take action! We will walk an initial loop of about a mile around Houghton Pond with minimal elevation gain and loss pausing along the way to talk about PFAS advocacy. We will return to the visitor center for a bathroom break at this point, and say goodbye to anyone who would like to take off. Those who would like to continue will hike together for an additional 2.3 miles with around 570ft of elevation gain and loss to Eliot Tower and back.
In addition to registering via MeetUp, please register here to complete our virtual waiver.
Sierra Club Massachusetts is a part of the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow coalition, which focuses on reducing toxic chemicals in consumer products. Educating and engaging MA residents in the fight for a safer tomorrow. Professor Lindsay Tallon from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) is one of the coalition members who will join us to speak about the health impacts of PFAS. Professor Tallon is one of the researchers collaborating on the PFAS Project Lab.
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