Thank you for your interest and participation in High Altitude Fitness’ After School Kids Club!

In order to provide a more nurturing, fine-tuned learning environment for our increasing enrollment, our current sessions will offer a smaller student-instructor ratio in classes of 8 children or less. We will also be providing different classes designed for differing experience and ability levels.
Each session includes a month-long membership; children can come climb in the gym outside club times to climb, provided they have adult supervision.

Our kids club is an ongoing monthly program. If your child is interested and you plan on signing up for additional sessions, look into our Kids Club EFT membership for discounted monthly rates.

Kids programming will be organized as follows:

Junior Climbing Club (ages 5 – 7)
Climbing Club (ages 7-10)
Junior Club and Climbing Club each meet once a week, a total of four times a month. These are times for younger children in their appropriate age groups to receive supervised climbing time, including fun and engaging games and climbing-focused activities. Transportation from Incline Elementary to High Altitude can be provided, depending on the day, by school staff or H.A.F. staff.

Intermediate Club (general ages 8-12)
Advanced Club (general ages 10-16)
As climbers in the Junior Club and Club progress in skill, demonstrate they have learned the basic skills of indoor climbing and display a degree of dedication to the sport of rock climbing, they can move up into our upper tier of programs. Children as well as parents, should understand that the Intermediate and Advanced clubs are practice sessions focused on learning skills and skill set progression; classes involve less climbing time and more instruction-based interaction.
These clubs will meet twice a week, and kids will have the benefit of their own H.A.F. membership for the time they are enrolled.

Private Instruction
For the the children who need one-on-one time to work through a specific issue or for those wanting to learn how to push their ability limits, private, one hour long sessions can be the key to hone technique and movement. Contact H.A.F. to set a time and date.

Kids Club EFT Membership
If your child plans on participating in our programs month after month, the Kids Club EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer) membership is perfect for you. Your little climber will have all the benefits of normal enrollment at a discounted, reoccurring, rate (two month commitment).

Thank you for being apart of our ever-growing Kids Club! Please visit us at the gym to sign up! Questions? Email climb@highaltitudefit.net

See you on the wall!
H.A.F. Kids Club

Junior Club and Climbing Club each meet once a week, a total of four times a month. These are times for younger children in their appropriate age groups to receive supervised climbing time, including fun and engaging games and climbing-focused activities. Transportation from Incline Elementary to High Altitude can be provided, depending on the day, by school staff or H.A.F. staff.

Junior Club and Climbing Club each meet once a week, a total of four times a month. These are times for younger children in their appropriate age groups to receive supervised climbing time, including fun and engaging games and climbing-focused activities. Transportation from Incline Elementary to High Altitude can be provided, depending on the day, by school staff or H.A.F. staff.

Children enrolled in this club will have experience climbing in the gym and are interested in developing their skills on the wall as well as their knowledge of the systems involved in indoor climbing. The concepts taught in this class are as follows:
-Belaying, Goal setting, Route ratings
-Non-intuitive climbing movements (mantles, heel hooks, back stepping)
-Diverse climbing: bouldering, traversing, crack
-Belayer-climber communication: special circumstances
-Intermediate vocabulary
-Pacing and steady breathing

Kids in the Advanced Club have progressed past the intermediate skills and are dedicated to pushing their limits to become high caliber climbers. Advanced climbers in this class will learn the following:
-Training/conditioning exercises for strength
-Attempting routes in the 5.10 range
-Mock leading: introduction to lead climbing and lead belaying
-Movement of a route: types of routes and types of climbing

For the the children who need one-on-one time to work through a specific issue or for those wanting to learn how to push their ability limits, private, one hour long sessions can be the key to hone technique and movement. Contact H.A.F. to set a time and date.

PRESS RELEASE: Alpenglow Sports (Tahoe City, Ca.) and Village Ski Loft (Incline Village, NV.) have partnered with Sherpas Cinemas and High Altitude Fitness to provide the North Shore of Lake Tahoe with the most popular ski film of the year. Please join us on November 10, 2011 at 7pm in the friendly confines of High Altitude Fitness for a film premier that will leave you motivated for powder and increased environmental awareness. Enter to win an amazing raffle for world-class prizes: Kootenay Sampler in Nelson, BC (3 days of Snowwater Heli, 2 days of Valhalla PowderCats), The North Face Soft Goods Package for 2, 1 year supply of Clif Bars, and a Black Diamond Ski Package for 2! Purchase $10 tickets available at Alpenglow Sports, Village Ski Loft, and brownpapertickets.com. ALL PROCEEDS GO TO WINTER WILDLANDS ALLIANCE. $5 dinner plates provided by Twin Peaks Catering. Come early for rock climbing and good seats! Please call 530.583.6917 with questions.

Sherpas Cinema, the groundbreaking film team deeply rooted in authenticity and progression, present their newest film – 2 years, 5 countries and over 15 skiers in the making: All.I.Can.

The time has come for a ski film that stands for something.  Join Sherpas Cinema as they unite spectacular cinematography with creative cinematic language to fuse passion for skiing with motivation for green initiatives and forward thinking.  In bringing the planet to life and drawing parallels between daily existence, they find a common ground between the global situation and the real individual.

Sherpas Cinema has been an established entity in the North American ski-film industry for over 8 years now and they are set apart from the norm through their unbridled creativity, artistic flare, and motives of environmental and educational consciousness. Their film, All.I.Can., is a spectacular visual and emotional journey from the personal to the world perspective.

Broken into the three areas of focus, the Sherpas take us on a confronting, magical and inspiring path. Emphasizing the ‘ALL’ that has impacted our world in a natural and anthropogenic sense, what ‘I’ndividuals in mountain cultures have recognized to be issues and what changes we ‘CAN’ strive to implement globally and make in our everyday lives. Featured athlete JP Auclair drives home the sobering thought and environmental motivation that the film creates, stating “we feel like we need to be doing less of this and less of that. But I don’t think it’s about doing less, it’s about doing more”. These personal goals, motivations and passions for encouraging environmental awareness around the world, and especially in the winter climes that support the lifestyle of the professional athletes presented in the film, are portrayed throughout in an adrenaline-filled, inspired fashion.

The incredible natural cinematography, integrated music and structural components of the film have melded together in a chillingly awe-inspiring presentation of various layers, messages and stories. Taking ski-filmmaking to an entirely new level, the Sherpas are going beyond tricks and big lines and injecting a sense of morality and social responsibility.

Featuring ground-breaking skiing from Chile to Greenland, naturally mind-blowing scenery, and an environmental engagement that creates an accessible identification point for the viewer, All.I.Can leaves you with an inspiring new perspective and appreciation for what we have and what we stand to lose.

The World Premiere of All.I.Can. will be held in Whistler, BC on September 23^rd, 2011. It will be showcased in Whistler’s largest venue and is integrated with a free pre-show sustainability symposium featuring guest speakers, eclectic and relevant artists, live music, environmental non-profits and a chance to interact with imperative sponsors, athletes, supporters and influencers of the film. The film will be screened later in the evening as a ticketed event, which includes an incredible after-party sponsored by Monster Energy and feature a highly anticipated musical announcement. This will be the starting point for a 64 stop worldwide tour of All.I.Can. with the hopes of reaching as many people and touching as many lives as possible. Without human understanding, appreciation and cooperation, this world may continue on a downward spiral. All.I.Can strives to unite global mountain culture as the leaders of a revolution. Sherpas Cinema aims to inspire the films viewers to do all they can for the environment and provide motivation to take that first tiny step in the right direction.

Jess Smith

Communications Manager

jsmith@watermarkinc.ca

604-938-3399 x 1

Malcolm Sangster

Producer, Sherpas Cinema

Malcolm@sherpascinema.com

Julie Gutstadt

INTERVIEWER: How long have your been practicing Yoga for?

JULIE: I have been practicing for 13 years, and was certified in 2004. I was 16 when a girlfriend introduced me to sun salutations.

INTERVIEWER: That is interesting because you don’t see too many people getting into yoga in high school.

JULIE: Well I went to a really groovy high school and they had elective “English & Yoga.” It was a double period so 3 days a week they would do yoga and 3 days a week they would do English and connect the two through poetry and other ways. So my friend was taking this course and she was teaching me what she was learning.

INTERVIEWER: Where did you get certified?

JULIE: I did the Forrest Yoga Training; her name is Ana Forrest in Berkeley at the Seventh Heaven Studio.

INTERVIEWER: So you grew up in Santa Monica and then moved to Berkeley?

JULIE: Well I grew up in the Bay Area until I was fourteen, then moved to LA. Meanwhile, my mother moved back to the Bay and I went to school in Boulder, CO.

INTERVIEWER: Wow, so you came from Norcal and then moved to Boulder, and now you live in Tahoe. You are definitely a hippie!

 JULIE. [ laugh ] My parents were hippies. They actually got married on the Berkeley Cal Campus.

INTERVIEWER: So what is the style of yoga that you studied at Forrest Yoga Training?

 JULIE: Well, Forrest Yoga teaches Power Hatha yoga. She is exceptional at using postures to eliminate toxins and emotions from your body. If you go to one of Ana’s classes, people are crying and screaming because it is a really intense emotional experience.

I sort of fell into it, I liked the “power” aspect of it and I didn’t realize the emotional aspect of it. I think that no matter how you start yoga, if it is for mental reasons, to relax, to stretch or emotional, you will get the added benefits of what you didn’t come there for. That sure happened to me.

INTERVIEWER: So why were you drawn to yoga? 

JULIE: Well I definitely thought it was a spiritual journey. I thought it was about adding things to your repertoire – to become more spiritual.

Unbeknownst to me, it also has a lot to do with release. Release from the past.

So I was looking for something to have, but also getting rid of what I didn’t want anymore.

There is a great book called Molecules of Emotion. It talks about the fact that when you go through any traumatic experience – whether it is physical or not – you store that emotion in the form of pain somewhere in your body. It can be as simple as you have really tight shoulders because you are always taking on the world. As silly as that sounds, the physical, the emotional and the spiritual pain are all linked.

As a teacher we have to be able to recognize where students hold pain and what we believe to be the source of that pain.

INTERVIEWER: So you are very vocal in your classes. What do you talk about?

JULIE: In class I really focus on posture and keeping people safe – physically, emotionally and spiritually. And yoga isn’t yoga without the breath. I am constantly going back to the breath – asking them what it feels like to breathe in this posture.

INTERVIEWER: What do you enjoy about teaching yoga at High Altitude Fitness?

JULIE: For many reasons. For one, the students are really looking for a challenge. That is really fun because I can take it a step further and find what their limit is.

It is also really interesting because everyone has a sports injury that they are working with.

I have actually started calling the fitness center my “High Altitude Family” [laugh].  I just have so many friends from the gym and it is just a really nice group of people – most are active and motivated, of all ages, of all ability level. I mean sometimes it is even hard to work out because there are so many people I know there!

For the sixth annual film tour of the Reel Rock Film Festival, hosted by us, High Altitude Fitness on October 6^th 8pm, are taking audiences to the edge of what’s possible. From climbing the world’s most difficult frozen falls, to the hardest big wall free climb and crazed highline antics, these heart pounding tales of superhuman skills will leave audiences wanting more.

We are making it a celebration of the heart of the adventurous soul. Buy a one-day climbing pass prior to the event and receive a second day for free. Or, get this, on October 6^th buy 10 climbing sessions for only $50 – that’s 50% off!

Stay for dinner too! We are having a fully catered dinner provided by Twin Peaks Catering ($5 a plate) and drink specials from our sports bar.

Buy tickets to the film festival online here, at Alpenglow Sports or at High Altitude Fitness Center.

Check out the trailer for the Film Festival!