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Bushwhacker May 2002 T H E ALPINE CLUB OF CANADA, VANCOUVER ISLAND SECTION I SLAND BUSHWHACKER volume 30 * Issue 2 May, 2002 STUFFSACK Message from the Chair May 11 - 12: National Club Board Meeting And AGM (impressions of a newcomer) I attended the May 11-12 National Club Board meeting and AGM in place of Gerta Smythe, our VI Section representative. Gerta had been telling me about all the fun I was missing. At last, I couldn't resist. I was not disappointed!! This particular AGM marked a number of firsts: • the first AGM in over 20 years not held in the Rockies; • the first (I think) AGM ever held on the west coast; • my first ever AGM, and first face-to-face of any kind with the National Club and all of those enthusiastic, hard working folks who run it and make things happen; • and maybe some more. The meetings were hosted by the Vancouver Section. And what superb hosts! The extensive pre-event activities offered something for everyone - the easterners seemed to go most for the ocean kayaking. The setting was spectacular - in the penthouse suite of the UBC Graduate Student Centre, looking across Burrard Inlet at the North Shore Mountains Gil Parker earning his Distinguished Service Award chopping brush and up Howe Sound at the Tantalus Range - all still on the ski route into Marriott Basin. Judith Holm blanketed in snow. The receptions were cordial, the discussions were lively and the people were the kind you would like to meet again. VI Section was well represented, The setting itself proved more effective than any words in with Judith and Viggo Holm and Richard Keltie (we can sensitizing the group and the discussions to the contrasts that still count Richard can't we?) attending throughout. work to pull us apart, as we work to stay together under the umbrella of a national club. Why else did Vancouver Section The legacy of this AGM, and the lasting memory for all who work (struggle?) for four or five years to coax the National Club attended it, will surely be the coining of "Rockcentric". This to convene, for once, under the watchful eyes of the foothills AGM saw the getting out in the open the predominance of of the Coast Mountains! the Rocky (and Columbian) Mountains in shaping the history, outlook and running of the ACC, and the getting The message in all of this? We need to work so that the onto the table the challenges in ensuring the ACC remains contrasts make us richer rather than pull us apart. That means (becomes?) Canada's national mountaineering club. Island Bushwhacker -1- Volume30 * Issue 2 VANCOUVER ISLAND SECTION OF THE listening, accommodating and uniting - my impression of what was happening ALPINE CLUB OF CANADA around the table. So much for impressions and on to the business. As always there were the Section Reports, followed by the National Executive (VP) Reports, followed by various decision and discussion items. Some highlights: • The ACC has a new, 18th section! It is Section Outaouais, formerly Club Vertige, based in the Ottawa/Hull area. • Plans and activities continue throughout the ACC under the banner of the SECTION EXECUTIVE 2002 UN International Year of Mountains. This includes our section's summer camp in the Rockies and the $500 granted to it. 2002 CHAIR - Tom Hall 592-2518 • (Grandiose!) plans are already getting under way for the 2006 ACC Centennial SECRETARY -Lynn Peppler 370-5135 TREASURER - Rick Eppler 477-5806 under the direction of Mike Mortimer, past president. What do we want to MEMBERSHIP - Jules Thomson 472-3820 do?. NATIONAL CLUB - Gerta Smythe 478-7369 SCHEDULE - Catrin Brown 477-5806 • Where there has always only been the one museum for Canadian FMCBC - Russ Moir 477-0070 mountaineering (the Whyte in Banff), there may one day (soon?) be two more, one in Canmore and one in Whistler. MEMBERS AT LARGE Don Morton • The National Executive Committee engaged recently in a Strategy Session Sylvia Moser (Think Tank retreat). They shared their thoughts and conclusions coming out Tony Vaughn Ian Rongve of that. • It was announced at the AGM that Gil Parker received the National BUSHWHACKER EDITORS “Distinguished Service Award” and Claire Ebendinger the new Section “Leader Chris Peppler 370-5135 Award” Congratulations to both. Rob Macdonald Viggo Holm 477-8596 • Another rave review of our Bushwhacker Annual. I passed out copies of our Anita Vaughn 360-9046 2001 Annual just as Gerta passed out copies last year of our 2000 Annual. For more information about the AGM please contact Gerta who will have a copy SUPPORT POSITIONS of agendas, minutes and other material to do with the meetings, Judith or Viggo Holm or myself. EQUIPMENT - Paul Macoun 381-3834 LIBRARY - Judith Holm 477-8596 Thank you, WEB MASTER - Gerhardt Lepp GATE KEYS - Murrough O’Brien 479-9127 Tom. ACC website: http://www.alpineclubofcanada.ca Library ACC VI website: Judith Holm http// www.alpineclubofcanada.ca/vi The VI Section library can be accessed by visiting the library (Judith Holm, 477- 8596) or by e-mail ([email protected]). Available are guide/instructional books, maps, The Island Bushwhacker is published 4 times a year by ACC publications, mountaineering literature/videos/archives. Requested items may the Vancouver Island Section of the A lpine Club of Canada. be scanned and emailed to members. New Books - "Backcountry Huts & Lodges of the Rockies & Columbias", by Jim Scott, Johnson Gorman Publishers, 2002, and "Fawcett on Rock,” by Ron Fawcett and John Submission deadline for the next issue is: Friday August 30, 2002. (Bushwhacker) Beatty, with introduction by Jim Perrin, Unwin Hyman, 1987. Rock climbing techniques, liberally illustrated with large photographs (donated by Larry Talarico). Additional material available: IBSN 0822 - 9473 Alpine Journal, American Alpine Journal, Don Morton, 4483 Greentree Tce Victoria BC, V8N 3S9, (1 250) 721 4942, [email protected] Island Bushwhacker -2- Volume30 * Issue 2 Island climbing history, Lindsay Elms, Island mountaineering historian, (250) 335 2237, [email protected] or www.island.net/~ekerr/ Topographical maps, Crown Publications Inc., 521 Fort St Victoria Our executive supports this project. We shall do what BC, V8W 1E7, (1 250) 386 4636, http://www.crownpub.bc.ca we can to financially contribute. Please contact [email protected] if you think you might like to be part of this initiative. ACC Coast Archives Project Judith Holm On March 23, Liz Scremin (Vancouver Section Chair), Viggo and I represented the Alpine Club at the Whistler Museum/Archives open house/capital campaign kick-off. We met with Stephen Henderson ( President Whistler Museum/Archives Society) and Pat Gemmill (Curator/Archivist) to discuss the role of the Vancouver Island Section in the proposed partnership between the three ACC Coastal Sections and the WM/AS. We are excited about this opportunity to create a Coast Mountaineering Collection. Pat Gemmill has expertise and experience (from Ottawa) in putting collections onto websites. The Coast Mountaineering Collection will be digitized and thus available for us to see from the comfort of our homes. The long- Stephen Henderson, Judith Holm, Liz Scremin & Pat term goal (of the VI Section) is to collect Vancouver Island Gemmill. V.Holm Mountaineering archival material and oral histories. Up-Island News, Spring 2002 Lindsay Elms Spring is here, or is it summer! The ski-hills, Mts. whiteout conditions with strong winds – hard icy snow. On Washington and Cain, have closed for the season and both the summit we turned around, took our skins off and resorts are reporting having had plenty of snow at the time of followed the holes in the snow from our ski poles while shutting down so we could be skiing into summer. As usual wiping the ice off our goggles. Lower down on the ridge we there was lots of back-country skiing up island. Again Mt. had to put all our weight as far forward over our skis to get Becher was a popular day trip with as many as twenty people some forward momentum but we still could get no speed on the summit on a good day. up. At Circlet Lake we put our wet skins back on our skis and slogged out to the Raven Lodge beating the rain by a The unfortunate news is vandals have burned the Forbidden few minutes. It continues to amaze me how quickly Plateau Lodge down, so gone is some island skiing history. conditions can change on the island!! Several groups made trips up Mt. Albert Edward in varying conditions: hard-packed snow with sub-zero temperatures to Snow shoeing has become a popular mode of transport on soft sticky snow in +10 degrees. Paradise Meadows and many people are hiking up Mt. Brooks, Elma and Albert Edward. As well this winter, a On April 13 Joe Bajan, his son Adam, his friend Aaron, Peter young guy started up a snow-shoe running clinic out of the Ravensbergen and I skied in to Albert Edward on a day trip. Raven Lodge which proved quite popular. It started out as a beautiful morning at 6:30 AM. By the time we got to Circlet Lake it was about +10 degrees with Snow-mobiles have been sighted on the ridge between wet heavy snow. At 10:30 up on the ridge we struck Albert Edward and Jutland and there have been rumours Island Bushwhacker -3- Volume30 * Issue 2 that they’ve been seen behind Castle Crag. Their reasoning South Ridge. The first multi-pitch route was started around for being this high is because there is not as much snow 1988 by Kevin Floyd and Dave Parsons but in 2000 (yes, 12 lower down therefore they have to go higher! I think they years later) Dave Lepard and Dave Parsons returned and should have a #*-+>#@ put under them and ….enough said.
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