Tb. Varsity øtddoor Club 3ournal VOLUME XXXI 1988 ISSN 0524-5613 ‘7/se ?ô7ireuity of Bteah Ccs!um6.a Vscoiwi, TIlE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Andy Pacheco The success of a club can be gauged by how many people ase inspired enough to become involved with the club activities. For an outdoor club, the major activities are, of course, trips to the mountains. Both Longhike and especially the glacier school in October attracted record numbers, and though these numbers predictably decreased as the midterms and exams came raining down, many an impromptu day trip was still thrown together at the eleventh hour in the club room Fridays. The VOC Christmas trips were all well attended, and in addition, two very successful avalanche awareness courses and a wilderness first aid course were held in December and January. Close to home, the VOC fielded many intramural teams, including two Arts 20 relay teams and frtt Storm the Wall teams. The best thing is how many people still show up at meetings and at the clubroom in Maich, even if they are too busy to go on trips. Many a summer adventure will be planned even as this article goes to the printers! Our love for the outdoors and outdoor activities does lead the VOC to get involved in various projects related to our interests. Among the prujects taken on this year: two bake sales were organized to raise funds to create the park at the Little Smoke Bluffs in Squamish. In addition, planning continues for the construction of “the Enrico Kindl memorial climbing wall” on campus, a facility which would allow for rock climbing instruction and training year round. Of course, all the things I have mentioned required a great deal of planning and here we’re all fortunate that I had a dedicated and enthusiastic executive plus a cast of volunteers to actually do the work! To all those who organized, instructed, threw parties, baked, cooked, manned booths or the gear room, wrote, edited, typed, commented, hammered, sawed, chopped or otherwise gave their time, my heartfelt thanks. It’s you who make the club what it is. Well, that’s about all I want to say, except to remind you all that the year is just beginning: one more month to the end of classes, and then we can really hit the peaks. See you in the summer! JOURNAL EDITOR’S MESSAGE Nick Folkard When I was told in April that I had been voted in as Journal Editor in my absence, I wasn’t sure whether to be pleased or not; it seemed a rather dubious honour, to say the least, if the hunted look on Jeff’s face during the previous few weeks and the maniacal glint in his eyes were anything to go by. However, it has turned out to be a thoroughly pleasant task. Although VOC’ers naturally have better things to do than write articles, there seem to have been enough weekends sufficiently wet to prevent all but the pottiest actually getting out; faced with such a situation, it appears that a gratifying number of members would sooner write about their past exploits than work. The VOC Constitution was altered after Jeff’s experience, to prevent future Editors from taking to the bottle, being consigned to an asylum or even ending the agony for good. I was required to appoint a Committee, which was accomplished with surprising ease. In fact, people ltigtic, and I am extremely grateful to Suzanne, John, Mike, Jacki, Becky, Morven, Teresa, Jennifer and Johann for their help. You saved me from a horrible end! Pethaps the nicest thing about being Editor (besides having Executive meetings as a fine excuse for missing the Monday lunchtime ecology seminars) has been meeting people. My almost weekly routine at meetings seems to have won me a certain infamy, so that people now recognize my ugly mug, and I’m sure I’ve made snore friends than enemies (iust..) during the year. To everyone, I would like to say thankyou for putting up with my incessant rantings about deadlines, and to the people who took pity on me and actually wrote articles, thankyou again -- the Journal wouldn’t have happened without you! I hope everyone enjoys reading the Journal -- I certainly did. Have a great year and be sure to collect lots of material for next year’s rag. VOC EXECUTIVE 1988-89 President Andy Pacheco Vice-president Reena Meijer-Drees Treasurer Mike Hayden Secretary Jeff Greenwood Quartermaster Chand Sishta Public relations officer Theresa Duynstee Trips coordinator Steve Dods Membership Chairman Lisa Moody Archivist Peter Stone Publications Officer Nick Folkard Projects coordinator Eric Clemson FMCBC delegate Muriel Pacheco VOC EXECUTIVE 1987-88 President Richard Howes Vice-president Mike Hayden Treasurer Peter Stone Secretary Jennifer Williams! Muriel Pacheco Quartermaster Enrico Kindl/ Brad Nixon Public Relations Officer Andy Pacheco Trips Coordinator Markus Kellerhals! Nick Folkard Membership Chairman Heather Bury Archivist Theresa GOdIn Publications Officer Jeff Greenwood Projects Coordinator Steve Dods FMCBC Delegate Theresa Duynstee GRAD NEWS Darlene Anderson is rumoured to be returning to Vancouver from New Zealand. Kobus Barnard is worldng and taking courses at SFU. Pierre Beaudry and Leisbet Croockewit were mauled during the summer of 1988 in Smithers, where they now live. Brad Boyle is somewhere in Latin America, probably Guatamala by now. Peter Celliers and Denise Hart are engaged. -Peter is finishing a post-doc in Munich. -Denise has been working in forestry and is travelling in Germany. Jim Chesko has seen the light and returned to physical chemistry (Ph.D. at Berkeley). Terry and Heather Chow are still in Kamloops. John Croockewit is returning to B.C. in April. Bruce Fairley has moved to Golden and is practising law there. Normand Fortier has returned to B.C. from Quebec and has a job in Port Coquitlam. Tammy Golinsky is wandering the wilds of Nepal. Bill Richards is wandering the world in search of Tammy. Craig Hollinger is working Vancouver or thereabouts. Markus Kellerhals is around when he’s not on Quadra Island or kayaking in Strathcona. Rich Lechleitner is back in town after a spell as a park ranger in the U.S. Graeme Luke has a post-doc at Columbia University in New York. His most adventurous climb so far has been the Empire State Building. Brad Nixon is flying in the Sudan -- his address is on the VOC Noticeboard. Dave Robinson is somewhere in Asia, heading for Africa. Dave Williams is returning to Vancouver after completing a post-doc at the University of Hawaii. ...VOC SOASH SEEN 198849... Reena Meijer-Drees SUMMER REUNION (Sept. 1988): Lotsa slides, lotsa stories, lotsa goodies. The potluck affair held in the Garden room attracted about 20 people and got everyone in the mood for the fall hiking season. LONGHIKE (Oct.): this year’s VOC classic outing proved no less successful than last year’s; the food was not as good as Brad’s effort in ‘87, but the weather was somewhat more cooperative! Rock school was very popular (climbing at Murrin and the smoke Bluffs, different levels taught) and the dayhikes were also well-attended. Trips went up to the Tusk and up to Singing Pass (dodging mountain bikers). About 110 people showed up at the AMS Whistler cabin on Saturday evening for a wholesome meal of chili (veggie and 2 levels of hotness available) and a party afterwards. After breakfast the next morning more daymps went out, as well as lots of ad-jib climbing. A splendid intro, to the VOC! HALLOWE’EN (guess the date): Susan Curror generously donated her parent’s house for this one; I didn’t go but it was apparently lots of fun, even though the VOC executive sort of left Susan stranded in the party preparations, and things were rather disorganized. No pumpkins to carve, and prizes for the best costumes were handed out “after the fact” to Ed Spat for his effort as a Zulu and to. .and. .as the couple in bed. SKATING PARTY (Nov.): About 30 people caine out fot a good time at the Thunderbird Winter Sports Centre -- unfortunately, no hockey games this time!! Pizza afterwards. GLACIER SCHOOL (Nov.): Held at Joffre this year. With over 50 people in attendance, this was the largest VOC glacier school ever! What a keen bunch! Lots of epics happened on this trip. Thanks to extensive organization done by the VOC exec., ably aided by Eric Smith, Brad Boyle and Paul Kao, everyone attending had gone to two evening “dry” sessions. Things went well on the glacier and everyone got to practice ice-axe arrests, belays and walking on crampons (or, as one of my acquaintances calls them, “those crouton-things”). “XMAS’ PARTY: Well, this was actually held in the new year under the title New Year’s Reunion. Once again a potluck held in the Garden Room — quite a turnout. Everyone showed their Christmas trip slides, which varied from avalanche-dodging at the Wheeler Hut to hellying in to Harrison Hut to jungle thrashing in Venezuela. CURLING PARTY (ian. 13): Not a large turnout. but it was fun anyway. There’s something infinitely Canadian, even mid-western, about curling. .1 want one of those jackets!! WINTER LONGHIKE (Feb. 6-7): Held for the first time at Mount Baker. sure to become a classic! Great accommodations at the Swiss Alpine club cabin just outside of Glacier, thanks to Greg Bissegger’s membership. The weather was absolutely terrific but the snow was pathetic. Two day-trips went out (rewarded with gorgeous views) and a number of folks went lift skiing. Dinner at the cabin was chili (2 varieties: hot and superbot) and there was a singsong afterwards accompanied by Marilyn on guitar (5 stringed version) and Nick and Reena on recorder.