MThe Alpine Club ofO Canada / Le ClubN Alpin du Canada—MontréalTA Section G EVol. 64 No. 3 October 2006 2006 Section Camp Paintings Exhibition Outings & Socials Section Camp 2006 At MEC - a must! No excuses to stay inside Best of the best at Elizabeth Parker Hut Page 5 Page 15 Page 23 Winter House GMC General Mountaineering Camp Hiking at Trinidad Much more than skiing! Celebrating the Centennial More than beautiful beaches… Page 8 Page 19 Page 26 AGM Courses & Workshops La Grande Biblioteque Annual General Meeting Learn… and pass it on…. A little knowledge never hurt anybody... Send your form today! Page 12 Page 22 Back Page For more club info go to: www.accmontreal.ca Centennial Member’s Survey In this, our Centennial year, we reflect upon our many accomplishments achieved over 100 years of Leadership and Adventure. It is also necessary for the Club to look towards the future. We ask that you take a few minutes to complete the Member’s survey so that we can continue our quest to meet the needs and expectations of our members. Go to: http://alpineclubofcanada.ca/survey/ Mailing Lists - Find Partners and Activities! If, like me, you joined the Alpine Club of Canada to boost your climbing and hiking activities with different destinations and part- ners, you'll be happy to know that now it's even easier. We put together 2 mailing lists just so everyone can look for partners or organize activities in a more spontaneous, last minute, approach. All this on top of the weekly club's "official" outings! From now on to stay active you can ♦join official outings and courses ♦look for activity partners ♦organize (yes, you) last minute activities within the club ♦participate in activities organized by others Subscribe to these mailing lists by sending an email with your name: ♦For climbing related activities (indoor, rock, ice... any level), to: [email protected] ♦For all other activities (hiking, mountaineering, skiing, snowshoeing...),to: [email protected] Any problems to subscribe or other questions, please contact me. Stéphane Chamberand [email protected] Listes - Partenaires et Activités! Si, comme moi, vous avez joint le Club Alpin du Canada pour pimenter vos sorties, d'escalade et de randonnée, avec de nouvelles destinations et partenaires, vous serez heureux d'apprendre que c'est maintenant encore plus facile. Nous avons créé 2 nouvelles listes de diffusion afin de vous permettre de trouver des nouveaux partenaires et d'organiser des sorties de dernière minute, de fa- çon spontanée. Tout cela en plus des activités hebdomadaires du club!!! Des maintenant pour demeurer actif vous pouvez ♦joindre les activités "officielles" du club ♦trouver des partenaires pour vos activités ♦organiser vous même des sorties actives de dernière minutes avec le club ♦ou bien simplement participer aux activités spontanées organisées par les autres. Inscrivez vous aux listes en envoyant un courriel avec votre nom: ♦Pour les activités d'escalade (intérieur, de roche ou en glace.. tous niveaux), a: [email protected] ♦Pour les autres activités (randonnée, alpinisme, raquette, ski...), a: [email protected] Des problèmes pour vous inscrire ou vous avez d'autres questions? Vous n'avez qu'a m'écrire. Stéphane Chamberland [email protected] Page 2 www.accmontreal.ca Montage 64.3 - October 2006 Editorial [email protected] Hi everybody, Montreal Section Another issue of our newsletter is fin- Alpine Club of Canada ished and it is filled with incredible Executive Committee trips. Hiking, climbing, mountaineer- ing, relaxing on the beach, even book Got something to say? hunting! E-mail the exec Did you miss the Section Camp? Shame Specific E-mail addresses at: Email announcement of Club news on you! Looks like it was excellent! www.accmontreal.ca Please visit our website and sign up to Check out what the participants wrote Chair: Murray Levine 514-633-1533 receive email announcements of club about it, and remember that you can Past Chair: Susanna Oreskovic 514-708-8221 news. This is a moderated, spam-free join it next time. Can’t wait? Well, you Secretary: TBD list. Your email address is never sold can join some of our outings then! Treasurer: Susana Oreskovic 514-708-8221 to telemarketers! National Rep: Murray Levine 514-633-1533 There are plenty of very active members Membership: Fréderic Benz 514-524-0148 that shared their experiences and ad- Webmaster: Andrew Parker 514-489-4923 Address changes / Membership Info ventures and I hope you enjoy them as Socials: Annie Martin Please give full address, e-mail & much as I did. [email protected] phone information to the club’s Outings: Deborah Skelton 514-708-9654 membership coordinator Frederic Next time that you go out there, don’t Courses: Benz. (514) 524-0148. be shy! I want to read about it... Stéphane Chamberland 514-574-3996 Environment & Access: [email protected] I am looking forward to meeting you all Sylvie Graff 514-731-3627 at the AGM, book your place now! It’s Newsletter: Agustina Filgueira Membership Renewal [email protected] a great chance to meet the people who Check your member card (or Montage Keene Volunteer Coordinator: address label) for expiry date. Has it take care of our club face to face. Dave Gillespie [email protected] expired? Oh No! Don’t let this happen Members at Large: See you there? Marie Michelle Johnson 450-465-1919 to you. Send in your membership renewal as soon as you receive it. Agustina Filgueira, Montage Editor Tom Haslam-Jones 450-672-3415 Can’t find the form? Pick one up on [email protected] Keene Farm Committee the website, at Keene or call our (MAC Inc.) membership coordinator (above). Dave Gillespie [email protected] Tom Haslam-Jones 450-672-3415 Alpine Club of Canada E-mail [email protected] Safety Web Site Ski House Committee Ski House e-mail contact: Leslie Robertson Montage Very Highly Recommended! [email protected] Volume 64.3 - October 2006 http://alpineclub-edm.org/accidents/index.asp The newsletter of David Percival 514-481-2435 the Montreal Section Eric Lepage 514-918-7135 of the Alpine Club of Canada The Montage encourages you Martin Suichies 514-747-2828 Published 3 times per year to support the ACC Martin Goldstein 514-489-4615 In February, June, and October Planned Giving campaign Leslie Robertson 514-633-1533 Danuta Potworowski 514-340-1209 Edition: Agustina Filgueira Herb Ladd 514-481-6026 Production: Doug Williams Celestine Segers 514-489-2842 NEXT ISSUE February 2007 ACC National Club For information on hut or Canmore For other Alpine Club Contact info: Deadline: January 15, 2007 clubhouse reservations or anything else - www.accmontreal.ca Send news, reports, art, photos, etc to: call the ACC at (403) 678-3200, ext. 1 - ACC Member’s Handbook Agustina Filgueira at: Fax (403) 678-3224 - 2006 ACC Montreal Section [email protected] E-mail [email protected] Member Directory (included in February Current & back issues are Montage) available at our website Montreal Section Video Library www.accmontreal.ca/newsletter.html Call David Percival for more info 514-481-2435 MontagePage 3 63.1 - February 2005 www.accmontreal.ca Montage 64.3 - OctoberPage 2006 3 Report from the Chair Rapport du Président Fall is here and the time for nominations to the executive is upon L’automne est là et le temps des nominations pour l’exécutif est us as well. Anyone who wishes to participate in the running of aussi arrivé. Toute personne désirant participer au fonctionnement the club, be it on the executive, Keene Farm or Ste-Adele house du club, faire partie de l’exécutif, du comité de la ferme de Keene committee is encouraged to write to me. ou de la maison d’hiver à Ste Adèle est encouragé à m’écrire. If there is someone out there who wishes to replace me, let me Si il y a quelqu’un qui désire me remplacer, laissez moi vous dire assure you that one need not have big feet to fill these shoes! qu’il ne faudra pas qu’il ai de trop grands pieds pour entrer dans ces To those of you who have stepped forth and volunteered, be it to chaussures! shovel gravel, serve on a committee, lead an outing, etc., etc. A ceux et celles d’entre vous qui ont participé volontairement, qui this club is the wonderful organization that it is because of you. ont été là pour pelleter le gravier, pour servir au comité, pour orga- niser une sortie, etc. etc. ce club est une organisation magnifique To the individual who stole the 500 samples of OFF from the grâce à vous. Keene hut that were to be given out to volunteers; the samples were frozen most of last winter and according to OFF are no A la personne qui a volé les 500 échantillons de OFF à la ferme de longer effective. We will get more samples and hide them from Keene, qui étaient pour être donnés aux bénévoles; les échantillons you next time! ont gelé pendant presque tout l’hiver passé et ne sont plus valables selon le fabricant. Nous recevrons d’autres échantillons et les cache- I am pleased to report that Keene Farm has been incorporated as rons la prochaine fois ! ACC Keene Farm Inc., a Delaware corp. This was the first step in acquiring tax exempt status for the property. With annual Je suis heureux d’annoncer que la ferme de Keene a été reconnue en taxes in the $6,000 range and going up 11% in 2007 we hope tant que "ACC Keene Farm Inc.", une entité "Delaware corp.".