“This place is amazing! What’s the club doing to make sure it’s just as beautiful when we leave?”
The General Mountaineering Camp (GMC) has been a longstanding tradition of ours for the past 117 years. Learn about all the meticulous steps we take to preserve and protect the sites that host the GMC.
Read MoreThe ACC’s annual GMC is known for the remoteness of the camp and the wild exploratory nature of the climbing. The 2023 edition of the GMC promises to be one of the most remote and wild in recent memory.
Read MoreWith the first week of our 2019 GMC stated to begin this weekend, we thought it would be fun to look back on the 1949 GMC from a quaint (and gorgeous) journal we received.
Our GMC’s have always been a place where participants can unplug and reflect on the environment, make new friends and explore new terrain. The journal does a perfect job at explaining why these things are so special and why it’s important to slow down to have these types of experiences.
Read MoreEach year we run a contest for the duration of our General Mountaineering Camps. This year we had over 100 photo entries. Below is our short list, featuring our top three winners.
Read MoreRomancing and getting rad: the story of two mountain lovers who met their match at the GMC.
Read MoreThis trip report, from Jonathan Taylor of the Rocky Mountain Section, captures both the day-to-day experience of the ACC's Leadership Program at the General Mountaineering Camp as well as the mindset of a participant questioning motivations and building leadership skills.
Read MoreWe received a rare gem of a story from ACC lifetime member Ted Mills. The story below recounts his experience at his first ever GMC as a young lad, impressionable and keen. It is stories like this that make The Alpine Club of Canada so special, igniting a passion for the mountains for a lifetime.
Read MoreThe Alpine Club of Canada’s General Mountaineering Camp has been a tradition in the Canadian mountaineering community for over 100 years. Have you attended a camp? We're making a call for submissions for your stories and photos to help build an archive of these legendary events.
Read MoreThe site for the camp was selected last summer, preparations have been going on through the winter and spring and setup of GMC basecamp at Frenchman Cap was completed last week and the camp is now underway.
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