2026 ACC Edmonton Photo Competition

Vote for Your Favourite Photos! 📸

The submissions are in! Take a look through the photos in each category and cast your vote for your favourites using the voting form.
Voting is open November 1–10, 2026. Winners will be announced at the Photo Competition Social hosted at Gravity Pope on December 3, 2026.
Thanks for celebrating our community and all the adventures that bring us together!

Category 1: Up (photos of ascents)

U1: Victoria falls on the way to lake Oesa in early June
U2: To the notch
U3: The Walk of Dawn, before the summit of Lady Macdonald
U4: Target in sight
U5: Freshfields 2025
U6: Via del boccette
U7: The wapta wanderer's: where strangers become friends
U8: Climbing Kilimanjaro
U9: the way to lake Alice
U10: Chasing Sunrise: Sprinting up Miners Peak before dropping into the gully
U11: Ascending "From Nordegg With Love" via ferrata. Left to Right: Kathy Hendren, Isabelle Bolduc, Jessica Haenni, Tim Taylor & Bob Hendren
U12: Up Iceline, having emerged from the switchbacks
U13: GMC 2026 - two teams ascend Rhea Peak
U14: Abbot Pass is Steep
U15: Martin heading up Murchison Falls in -20
U16: Setting up to practice crevasse rescues on the Athabasca Glacier during an early season snowfall
U17: Berg Lake Trail Begins!
U18: The King Opens the Door (Approaching the Kain Face of Mt Robson)
U19: Finally cresting the top of Mushroom peak with a wonderful view of the Icefields parkway winding its way south far below
U20: Jasper cutting feet on Pull Hard (13a)

Category 2: Down (photos of descents)

D1: Descending from French Pass after a day of practicing newly learned crevasse rescue skills
D2: Another best day ever
D3: Slippery Slope!
D4: Rain is coming
D5: Blue bird day
D6: Down we go
D7: Pickle jar
D8: Above THE lake: Summer turns on a line we had been eyeing for half a decade
D9: Scramble descent of the crux of Mount Ernest Ross in David Thompson Country
D10: Returning to camp from Kiwetinok Lake
D11: GMC 2026 - descending Rhea Neptune Pocket Glacier
D12: Caution: Exposed Sidewalk (Mt. Victoria)
D13: All downhill from here (the good kind). Brazeau Loop 2026
D14: Belaying at the crag in David Thompson Country
D15: Rae Glacier
D16: Coiling the Rope
D17: Long walk back to the car along Hwy 1

Category 3: Hot Views (spring/summer landscapes)

HV1: Looking towards Lake Merlin from Pipestone Mountain in the Skoki Backcountry
HV2: meru morning
HV3: To Be Small in Their World, Hermit Trail in Glacier National Park
HV4: Assiniboine behind Og on 35mm
HV5: Apusiaajik Glacier, Greenland
HV6: The bell at sunset
HV7: Ready for a dip
HV8: Spring on Aylmer
HV9: Floe lake
HV10: Forchella Del Montanania, Italian Dolomites
HV11: Entering the Hall of the Gods, Maligne Lake, Jasper, Sept 18, 2026
HV12: Outrunning the seasons: Enjoying the fall colours on the last weekend of summer
HV13: Summer sunset at Linda Lake facing east with the continental divide in Yoho National Park
HV14: Twin Falls Creek
HV15: Subalpine Valley - Windy Range
HV16: June was wet
HV17: statred hiking at 4:30 am to capture this beautiful sunrise at the Vie Ferrata in Nordegg
HV18: Freestyle Skiing Summer Edition
HV19: Summer in Hidden Valley
HV20: Big Valley, no jamboree though. Brazeau Loop 2026
HV21: Greetings from Kinney Lake
HV22: Reflections on Berg Lake
HV23: View down the Howse river towards the Howse pass
HV24: Premium campsites at Cline Tarns
HV25: Contemplating Cowboy Chute

Category 4: Cold Views (fall/winter landscapes)

CV1: Pole javelin on the way back from Elk Lakes Cabin
CV2: jacques lake
CV3: Ghost Hills, the cold walk back along the Bald Hills in Jasper National Park
CV4: Clearing up before the climb
CV5: True Love
CV6: Knud Rasmussen Glacier, Greenland
CV7: FHR
CV8: 🤯
CV9: Adventures at Jacques
CV10: The Parkway
CV11: Tecumseh Flurries: Catching an unreal sunset before skiing out in the dark
CV12: Larch season sunrise at Eiffel Lake in the Valley of the Ten Peaks in Banff National Park
CV13: Fall Colours on the Bow Valley Parkway via bike
CV14: YEGACC WIM - view across Bow Lake
CV15: Take Me to the Cathedral
CV16: Fall colours, falling water, falling temperatures. Northover Ridge 2026
CV17: High contrast view on Mount Andromeda from the Athabasca Glacier
CV18: Upper Kananaskis Lake in October
CV19: Mist on the Emperor Face
CV20: Having made it to the top of the Woolley shoulder, we could see the Lloyd McKay hut, dwarfed by the east face of Mt. Alberta
CV21: Mt Hector featuring a class 4 avy

Category 5: People (community/camp hangs)

P1: Celebrating a birthday of a great friend at the Robson glacier. A very ambitious day hike
P2: Together, the community of Canmore City protesting against the Silvertip Gondola
P3: Ski-cuterie!
P4: Beneath Apusiaajik Glacier, Greenland
P5: Lunch on the Assiniboine exit
P6: Team work makes the dream work
P7: The Gals
P8: Reef Icefeild
P9: West Coast Trail Karate
P10: The highlight of the Sawback Trail in Banff National Park: Pulsatilla Pass. Left to Right: Erik Peterson, Michael Hodgins, Daryle Canart, Greg Rae, Michael Fulcher, Maryssa Iacobelli, Eric Tremblay, Isabelle Bolduc, Neil Yakimets & Klaudia Gagne
P11: Exploring Toboggan Falls with part of the Robson Hut crew
P12: ACC 120th GMC week 3 final night celebration
P13: We did it together!
P14: Feet that hike together, get cold together, this was during the hike at the skyline, we are blssed to have a hot drinks and wood furnace waiting for us at theeshivel pass lodge even we didnnot stay in their cabin
P15: Asulkan Hut Hangout
P16: Rock Progression Program Multi-Pitch Hangout
P17: Group reaching the Athabasca-Boundary col with the early morning sun starting to arrive
P18: Learning the Ropes (ACC Rock Progression Program)
P19: Spending a week exploring the Yoho/Little Yoho valley with family
P20: The Overlook

Category 6: No People (flowers, plants and animals)

NP1: On the way up to Bow Hut in August
NP2: summit sunrise
NP3: Sarrail Ridge welcoming committee, shot with a leaky film camera
NP4: Beneath Apusiaajik Glacier, Greenland
NP5: Wild flowers near Assiniboine
NP6: Shake your tail feather
NP7: Sunrise in Canmore
NP8: Song of Joy
NP9: Kinney Lake
NP10: Silent Bloom: Wildflowers under a Crowsnest sunset
NP11
NP12: Monarch butterfly feeding on flowers alongside Floe Creek in Kootenay National Park
NP13: Lady's Slippers on the Berg Lake Trail
NP14: Wolverine tracks - near ACC Lloyd Mackay hut
NP15: Teenager (Before Balding)
NP16: Some wild flower along skyline trailhead
NP17: Rainbow Over Sunwapta
NP18: Rare mountain bison, photographed at a dizzying elevation. Elk Island 2026
NP19: Raven looking for the next tourist to swindle out of snacks
NP20: Flying Solo
NP21: A Hidden World
NP22: Looking back at the Notch during what had turned into an August long weekend snowstorm on the Skyline trail
NP23: No People, Just Dogs
📋 *Competition Details & Rules*
  1. Who Can Enter
    ● Open to all current club members.
    ● All ages welcome — if you’re under 18, please have a parent or guardian enter on
    your behalf.

  2. Theme
    ● There are six categories to choose from:
    o Up (Photos of Ascents)
    o Down (Photos of Descents)
    o Hot Views (Spring/Summer Landscapes)
    o Cold Views (Fall/Winter Landscapes)
    o People (Community/Club/Camp Hangs)
    o No People (Flowers, Plants, Animals)
    ● Photos should embody the themes of the alpine club. For the photos, think
    stewardship, mountaineering, fostering knowledge, community, and promoting
    alpine experiences like hiking, climbing, snowshoeing, backcountry skiing, cross
    country skiing.

  3. What to Submit
    ● You can send in one photo per category (6 total photos).
    ● Photos must be taken by you (no borrowing your friend’s epic summit shot).
    ● Photos must have been taken in the last two years.
    ● Photos can be from anywhere in the world.
    ● JPG < 10MB format preferred. If possible, aim for high resolution so it looks great if
    printed or displayed.
    ● Some light editing is fine (cropping, adjusting brightness/contrast), but please don’t
    Photoshop a grizzly bear into your glacier crossing.
    ● No AI generated photos permitted.
    ● No watermarks or big text across the image.

  4. How to Enter
    ● Photos can be submitted from October 11-28, 2026 using this form: ACC Edmonton
    Section 2026 Photo Competition Submission 📸📸🏔🏔

  5. How We’ll Choose the Winners
    ● All members can vote by accessing the Alpine Club Canada –
    Edmonton website from November 1 – 10, 2026.
    ● Voters are encouraged to consider:
    1. Creativity & originality
    2. Connection to the alpine/mountains
    3. Overall “wow” factor
    4. Their favorite photo

  6. Prizes
    ● Winners will be announced at the Photo Competition Social hosted at Gravity Pope
    on December 3, 2026.
    ● Fun prizes for 1st and 2nd Place in each category.
    ● Bragging rights are forever.

  7. Photo Use
    ● You keep the copyright to your photos.
    ● By entering, you agree the club can share them on the ACC website, in newsletters,
    on social media, or in displays (always with credit to you).
    ● We won’t sell your photo or use it for anything commercial without your permission.

  8. Good Sportsmanship
    ● This contest is for fun, community spirit, and celebrating our adventures.
    ● The voters’ decisions are final.

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