Your Connection To the Outdoors
Pertaining in some way to riding bicycles (on- or off-road).
Come celebrate spring with the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Western Massachusetts Chapter as we hold our first Spring Festival celebration on Sunday May 22, 2022, from 9am until 4pm. We want to share with you what we do as an AMC chapter and give you a chance to explore AMC’s beautiful Noble View Outdoor Center located in Russell MA. Get tickets now!
New for 2022! Join us for a full weekend of bicycling adventure in the Berkshires! Participants will stay for two nights at the Windflower Inn in bucolic Egremont MA. On Friday evening we will gather for a happy hour (BYOB) and pizza social, get to know one another, and get oriented for the weekend.
Your connection to recreational group bicycling on the roads and byways of the bucolic Connecticut River Valley and Berkshires
Bicycling Committee Chair: Janine Papesh (bicycling@amc-wma.org)
The Great American Outdoors Act
By: Leah Brodsky, Social Media Editor
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Although the COVID-19 pandemic is by no means over, AMC and the Berkshire Chapter are applying careful evidence-based risk management practices to chart a path forward for volunteer-led outdoor activities to resume safely.
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The resumption of activities will occur in phases. Effective June 22, AMC is in Phase 2 of its reopening plan.
The Western Massachusetts and Worcester Chapter outdoor leadership instructors teamed up to provide a series of refreshers seminars for existing leaders during June and July 2020. These topics are updated with the most recent information from AMC’s Outdoor Learning Institute and the Leadership Requirements and Guidelines. While not a required component for leading during Phase 1 and 2 of the volunteer activities re-launch, overviews of how COVID-19 may apply to each topic are included, where applicable.
Although the COVID 19 pandemic is by no means over, AMC and the Berkshire Chapter are applying careful evidence-based risk management practices to chart a path forward for volunteer-led outdoor activities to resume safely.
On June 22 we will begin offering volunteer-led activities in small groups employing social distancing measures. Group size will be capped at ten (10) participants including leaders. Activity leaders are receiving training on new trip safety protocols and procedures.
As restrictions ease up across Massachusetts, the AMC Berkshire and Worcester Chapters are teaming up to offer a series of online refresher seminars for current activity leaders.
Many weeks now into the COVID-19 pandemic, our situation in the Northeast remains fluid, with states still sorting out their individual plans for easing restrictions on travel and gatherings post-Memorial Day. AMC currently intends to open most properties and programs on July 1, with exceptions noted on this page.
AMC Western Massachusetts