Join Us in RENO, NEVADA for the 39th Biennial GBAC – OCTOBER 15-18, 2025
Our registration portal is open. Click the button below to go to the portal page. There, login to your account if you already have one or create an account. (There is a “forgot password” link as well).
OCTOBER 15-18, 2025 at the Whitney Peak Hotel
The Conference will be held at Whitney Peak Hotel. Book your room at our $159/night (plus fees/taxes) group rate and take advantage of all the amenities.
If you plan to stay longer than our block of dates, call in your reservation and ask for the conference discount.
FIELD TRIPS
We are excited to announce that we have three field trips planned for this year’s GBAC, each with varying levels of cost, accessibility and duration.
- Historic Walking Tour – enjoy a walking tour of historic downtown Reno, with your guide, Alicia Barber, Ph.D. (writer, historian, educator, and founder of the historical consulting firm Stories in Place). Cost is $10 per person. Lunch is not included because there are plenty of restaurants in the area.
- Hidden Cave and Grimes Point – if you are interested in getting out into the Great Basin Desert, sign up for your guided tour to the prehistoric sites of Grimes Point and Hidden Cave, with your guides, Donna Casset (Northern Paiute Cultural Specialist & Registrar of the Churchill County Museum), and David Hurst Thomas (Senior Curator in Residence, North American Archaeology, American Museum of Natural History). Transportation for 50 attendees and a boxed lunch will be provided for a cost of $75.
- Basque Tree Carvings – If you prefer to spend time in the beautiful Sierra Nevada, enjoying fall foliage and learning how to help digitally preserve Basque tree carvings with your phone, sign up for the Arborglyph field trip guided by Teresa Wriston (Associate Research Professor, Desert Research Institute), Inaki Arrieta Baro (Head of Jon Bilbao Basque Library at the University of Nevada, Reno), and Carrie Smith (Tahoe National Forest Heritage Program Manager). A maximum of 30 people can attend. Carpooling will be the mode of transportation and a boxed lunch will be provided. Cost of field trip is $35.
BANQUET
The banquet will be on Friday night, October 17, 2025.
The cost is $90 for attendees and $80 for students. Enjoy a delicious plated meal with friends, old and new. Awards of various kinds will be given out; dancing and general merriment will follow with the cash bar. There will be no keynote speaker this year.
Field Trips and Banquet Tickets are available for purchase on the Registration Portal. Login to purchase your chosen options.