Celebrate highlights of the ACC's most exciting news and the big impacts in Canada's mountain community in 2017.
Community | Huts | Environment
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Why can’t we all just get along? Chucky Gerrard believes there’s room for everybody to get creative in modern backcountry culture.
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Learn how you can help the ACC in mapping your favourite alpine destinations (summer and winter) in Alberta's Bighorn region.
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The recipients of the 2017 Jen Higgins Award set out to complete the first all-female descent (third descent ever) of the Klinaklini Canyon.
Grants & Awards | Great Adventures
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We are proud to support this year's winner of the ACC Environment Grant; the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS - Northern Alberta Chapter) for their ongoing caribou conservation work in northern Alberta.
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In the Fall of 2017, The Lady Alliance came together for a long weekend at Wheeler Hut in Rogers Pass. Read their story here.
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The Mountain Legacy Project: exploring change in the mountains of Western Canada through historical rephotography.
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The ACC team spent five days this summer doing repairs and maintenance at the Great Cairn hut in the northern Selkirks. Construction projects in the alpine often require our team to use creative problem solving, and we had plenty of challenges on our hands with this one.
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In August 2017, the ACC maintenance team spent nine long days at the Fairy Meadow Hut renovating the kitchen, staining exterior structures and giving the hut a much needed deep clean.
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The ACC maintenance team and volunteers spent two days clearing the "trail" to Fairy Meadow: the alders were trimmed, deadfall was bucked and cleared and additional trail markers were added at key points. It was a big job even for a great crew!
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Mountains 101 is a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) teaching a comprehensive overview of Mountain Studies. Learn more and sign up for the free course at the bottom of this article.
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Great news! In June of 2017, the ACC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Royal Canadian Geographic Society (RCGS) that lays out a path for our organizations to work together on mountain projects.
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ACC member Chris Jensen will be keeping us updated with photo galleries on the progress of the building of the ACC’s newest hut that, once complete, will expand the western edge of the ACC’s hut network by more than 150km.
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Our newest ACC hut is being built by Vancouver Island Section members and volunteers and will provide access to extensive summer alpine hiking and superb winter skiing in the area around Triple Peak, from its location 35km west of Port Alberni.
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