This year’s annual dinner will be held at the Windham Mountain Club.

Featuring: Cocktail Hour; Hiking Challenge and Leadership Awards; Full Dinner; Screening of the Queen of the Catskills; CMC annual report.

Registration LINK

Queen of the Catskills Official Trailer LINK

Speaker Bios:

Jamie Kennard is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, and record-setting skier, whose decade-long pursuit to ski all 81 of New York's high peaks—the Adirondack 46ers and Catskill 35s—is chronicled in the 2024 film, VARIABLE.

Jamie has been profiled in Powder, Times Union, Hudson Valley Magazine, and Upstate Sports, while his photographs have appeared in Outside, Backcountry, and Flylords. 

His forthcoming memoir, The Exquisite Weight of the Mountains, weaves together the grueling quest to climb and ski every high peak in the Adirondacks and Catskills with a portrait of his lifelong relationship with his late wife. It will be published by Avid Reader Press (Simon & Schuster). He lives in Woodstock, NY, in the heart of the Catskill Mountains.

Julie McGuire is a high school English teacher, outdoors enthusiast, and avid backcountry skier. On November 30, 2024, she completed a four-year journey to become the first woman to ski all 33 Catskill High Peaks.

Julie volunteers as a trail maintainer with the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference and with Winter4Kids, where she teaches her students from the South Bronx how to ski. She is currently pursuing a new project to ski the "lower 67," with hopes of becoming the first person to ski the 100 highest mountains in the Catskills.