Kathy, for our chapter, lets have a fundraiser of some sort, I am willing to throw a few sheckels in for a good cause!
Maybe hold a climber training day? you and Dan (or anyone who dares challenge and can beat you guys, the chapter champs,) can hold a training day and take the funds for travel...
Eric, Yew is Taxus, there are some good colmunar ones available, also good for low light. but, watch out with little kids, everything except the red fleshy aril (fruit lookikng part) is toxic with Taxol, the stuff they use for anti cancer treatments...