When a youth who is a Mountaineers member turns 18, they should receive a "happy birthday" email (with the primary account holder copied) saying:
"Happy birthday! We're so grateful that you and your family have given The Mountaineers a chance to play a role in your formative years. We hope you feel like you're part of the family. We know that your late teens and early 20's are busy years. We hope you can still stay involved, but even if life takes you on new adventures, we want you to know that we still consider you part of our family, and we hope you'll stay connected.

That's why, for your 18th birthday, we've given you a 1-year adult membership! And, we'd also like to give you a one-time offer to extend that membership for another 4 years, to help take you through those busy early 20's. Log in anytime between now and when your 1-year free adult membership expires to purchase another one-year adult membership, and use this coupon code to extend it for another 4 years. You'll end up with a 5-year membership for the price of one. A little birthday gift from us, and our way of saying "thanks for being part of our family."

On the "My Activities" page there's a "Review Participation Notes" blue button. When I click on that and scroll all the way to the bottom it shows when my badges were added and when they expire. This table of dates is super handy, but having it located here is really klunky.

It seems like all this badge date info should be at the bottom of the "My Profile" page. It would also be nice to list along with the Expire date if it has expired but it's still in the grace period.

I know you already added a date tooltips when you hover over a badge, but that isn't intuitive and it can go away if the entire date table is added below the badges.

Our community is stronger when we connect with one another and when other members can learn more about you. So while we’re at it, how about allowing larger views of members’ profile photos? I was delighted when the member profile feature was added to the web site, enabling me to see who I’m going on a trip with; but what’s with the microscopic space allotted to the profile photo? I have a 34-inch monitor, yet members’ photos show up in a tiny 2-inch circle and I have to peer closely at the screen to make out any facial features. The problem is exacerbated because many members post pictures of themselves in outdoor settings, where their faces are only a small part of the picture.

Anirudh

I think that breaking down the various skills our courses teach is important and reiterate my support for "skill badges" that is already an idea in this system. However, I see benefit in creating a template that is populated with the skills a member has earned that takes the form of an outdoor resume people could download and modify. This could promote our efforts to make the burgeoning multi-billion-dollar outdoor industry accessible to the youth we serve (as well as help our members who are sick and tired of their current jobs and would love to make a career transition). Plus, it would just be cool. There are other, more pressing needs (as of early 2016), but eventually I think this would be a great feature to add and possibly one that could be life-changing for the members of our youth programs.

Currently the activity listing can only be filtered by activity type and branch, but not by the sponsoring committee. In most cases this isn't a problem because the committee is the same as the activity type, but there are a few "community" committees, Retired Rovers, 20-30s Somethings, Singles. With the current system trips sponsored by these committees are basically impossible to find. The audience filters would work great for this, except that any trip can pick any of them, so most trips pick more than one.

Can we either have:
1) A way to filter the activity results by the sponsoring committee
2) Restrict the audience selections to the committee based on that audience