Alpenglow Winter Speaker Series Featuring Dave Nettle Nov. 19 to Benefit Truckee Donner Land Trust

Truckee Donner Land Trust is thrilled to be the beneficiary of the first of this winter’s Alpenglow Speaker Series, an annual series of athletes and adventurers speaking about their latest endeavors, with raffle ticket sales benefiting area nonprofits.

First up this winter will be legendary local climber and skier Dave Nettle on November 19, with proceeds going to Truckee Donner Land Trust. This year, of course, will be a little different with COVID-19.

Traditionally held at Squaw Valley’s Olympic Village Lodge, the Winter Speaker Series is a five-part series that showcases one show per month from November through February. Due to the global pandemic, Alpenglow Sports will take the 2020-21 season “on the road” to living rooms around the globe in a virtual capacity.

“While we will miss the electrifying in-person evenings the series provides, this is the next best thing and we’re excited to open the series up to a global audience.” said Brendan Madigan, Alpenglow Sports owner, “we know that the larger mountain community around the world will appreciate the power of adventure storytelling that the Winter Speaker Series embodies … as well as the magnitude of our fundraising for local nonprofits.”

In his kick-off show "Sheltering in Place", Dave Nettle will blend challenge and adventure into classic stories and images about a couple of climbing trips to Alaska on Moose's Tooth and Mount Huntington and an expedition into the Kichatna Spires.  Nettle will depict how on these climbs he and his partners found themselves unintentionally experiencing what it means to "shelter in place" while literally "stuck in place" tent bound deep in a remote mountain range for over 2 weeks of intense, continual snow storms.  In traditional fashion, Nettle will bring lighthearted humor and fun to the soul-crushing effect of what so many days of uncertainty look like while trapped in the middle of nowhere with limited supplies and at the complete mercy of the weather.  Nettle will round out his show with a couple of recent COVID influenced rock climbing adventures that allowed him to pursue his passion closer to home while following required and common-sense pandemic restrictions.

Admission for all virtual Winter Speaker Series shows is free of charge and all ages are welcome. To register for Dave Nettle’s show "Sheltering in Place," and to purchase automatic entries into the giveaway, visit wildboundlive.com/events/alpenglownettle. Access to the event will be emailed following registration. 

The much loved and anticipated in-person raffle will still be held in a virtual capacity with tickets available for purchase before each show. Proceeds from the raffle will go to Truckee Donner Land Trust to support our work of conserving open space in our region and opening it for the public to enjoy.

Raffle information:
- If you’ve been to one of these, you know the prizes are incredible with brands like Norrona, Leki and more, valued in the thousands of dollars
- You do not have to be present (even virtually) to win
- All proceeds go to Truckee Donner Land Trust