A Special Evening is planned for our June Social. After some brief announcements We’ll start the evening acknowledging a number of Section members who deserve our recognition and thanks for their significant contributions to our Section, the Alpine Club and the Mountaineering Community at large….(more below)…. We Also have a special guest presenter: Jasmin Caton. […]

Lyle Litzenberger will be presenting his book, “Burke and Widgeon – A Hiker’s Guide”, which is loaded with detailed trail descriptions, colour maps and photographs, elevation profiles, GPS data and more – all dealing with these two quite accessible regions of Pinecone-Burke Provincial Park. He will be showing photographic highlights of these two areas and […]

Cycling Tour de San Juan Island’s The goal is to ride up Mount Constitution in Moran State Park on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands. This is the ideal itinerary. I have never organized a cycling ride this complicated (ferry’s make it harder) before so we may have to change the plan along the […]

Doors open to registered club members at 7 pm. Space is limited. Shop from 7 pm until 9 pm. ACC Vamcouver Section members must be registered for the event to be eligible for in store 10% discount (10% on kayaks & bicycles too) and must be an MEC member to shop.

Award-winning filmmaker and author Dianne Whelan will give a presentation on her new book – Base Camp: 40 Days on Everest. In this personal and eye-opening exposé, Dianne shares gripping stories of Maoist rebels, avalanches and dead bodies surfacing out of a dying glacier. From her perspective at base camp Whelan interviews climbers, doctors and […]