Today the Alpine Club of Canada operates almost three dozen back country huts, with half a dozen built and run by individual sections. Edmonton also has a history of building its own huts, once including a hut at the east edge of Jasper National Park. In the early days of Read more
In the mid 1970s, I attended the ACC Edmonton Section’s “Summer in the Mountains” course, which included a series of weekend outings to Jasper National Park. A large group of ACC instructors and students used the Disaster Point Hut as a stepping-off point for our forays on rock, snow, and Read more
High on the knife-edge ridge between Mount Lefroy and Mount Victoria, a little stone hut stood for a century, sheltering climbers from wind and snow. Built in 1922 by Swiss guides, Abbot Pass Hut became the heart of countless mountain tales: steaming mugs of tea after stormy ascents, shared laughs Read more
Members of the Edmonton section have shared stories of their adventures since the section first met in 1912. Some of the stories are fun, some tell of reaching summits, and some recount near misses and tragedies. We’ve published reports in the ACC gazette and in the Breeze and now on Read more
O Canada! Without Elizabeth Parker, the Alpine Club of Canada would just be a chapter of the American Alpine Club. Soon after the American Alpine Club was founded in 1902, its first president proposed creating a Canadian chapter. Arthur O. Wheeler, a Canadian surveyor and mountaineer wrote to Canadian newspapers Read more
It sometimes pays to be a pack rat! When I was asked to write something for the Edmonton Section’s centennial publication about my time with the ACC Environment Committee(s), I didn’t know where to start. However, upon digging through my old files, I realized that the ACC was really the Read more
On September 8, the ACC Edmonton Section collaborated with the national ACC office and the downtown MEC store to host a speaker series event. The event featured Eva Capolla, who is an accomplished filmmaker, editor, and storyteller with a passion for mountain and alpine pursuits. Known for her ability to Read more
The Story of the YEG ACC Ice Wall Famous it may be, but the familiar idiom “If you build it they will come” is actually a misquote from the 1989 baseball movie Field of Dreams. The actual quote is:” If you build it, he will come” (not they). The film Read more
What is “Leave No Trace” Anyway? For decades, the ethics and best practice of respectful backcountry access have been embodied by the slogans “pack it in, pack it out” and “take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints”. While these were good, the pressures on wilderness have increased in recent Read more
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