Climbing
Programs and Camps
Summer Mountaineering
Program
The summer mountaineering program is open to 12 participants with
previous hiking, backpacking and scrambling experience, who would
like to take their skills to the next level. Previous basic
rope and rock experience will be a plus.
The program instructors are active mountaineers and club members
who have a wealth of experience to pass on.
This program is for members-only. If you are a new member
joining to take the course, you will be required to prepay two years
of the club membership.
PROGRAM DETAILS:
Dates:
June 9, 2010: evening session: meet the instructors, gear talk,
getting organized for the overnight weekends.
June 12-13, 2010: First weekend
June 23, 2010: evening session: meet the instructors, practice
evening on crevasse rescue, knots etc.
June 26-27, 2010: Second weekend
July 3-4, 2010: Third weekend with a summit day!
Location: to be determined but some of the popular
locations where we have had the program in the past include Cerise
Creek, North Shore mountains, Mount Baker. The evening sessions
will take place in Vancouver.
Topics covered:
- use of crampons, ice axe, self arrest, descending techniques
- snow anchors and belay systems
- rope management, knots, prussiks
- travel in a roped team
- glacier travel and snow travel
- reading the terrain, assessing hazards, route planning, navigation
- crevasse rescue
- ascent of a peak as part of the last weekend, weather and conditions
permitting
Gear required: In addition to being equipped
for an overnight camping, you will be required to provide your own
helmet, crampons (that fit your boots), a general mountaineering
ice axe, harness, belay device and a handful of carabiners (locking
and non-locking) and prussiks.
The BCMC provides ropes if needed, two prussiks for each participants
and some text material.
Cost: $325
To sign up: Please send an email to enibasd@gmail.com.
You will be provided with further instructions and asked
to answer a few questions about your previous experience.
Outdoor Leadership Skills
Course
"Leadership is about liberating people to do what is needed
in the best possible way. Leadership is the capacity to move
others towards goals shared with you, with a focus and a competency
they would not achieve on their own. Leadership is about building
and sustaining exceptional relationships."
Be a part of this two day, one evening session, facilitated by
Bruce Wilson, of Wildwhisper Consulting and Guide Services, to further
develop, refine and explore, methodologies to elevate your ability
to communicate, with clarity and conciseness to your group, how
to make no/go decisions, and how to facilitate an exceptional experience
for your party, even though you may not be standing on the summit
of the mountain.
Bruce Wilson has been working with BCMC for more than 2 years now.
He is a mountain guide and makes living guiding people
in the outdoors and teaching outdoor leadership at Capilano
College.
Course content includes:
- 1 evening session - October 26
- 2 day overnight field trip - October 30-31
- Rite in the Rain Log Book
- Handouts
- Scenarios and Simulations
- New Tools and Techniques for your decision making Tool Box
Course Cost: $250 p.p.
Discount for trip leaders! Please note that if
you have lead at least 2 club trips in the past 12 months and have
another trip on the current (summer 2010) schedule, the cost is
only $200. This is one of the ways that the BCMC would like
to encourage its members to continue to develop their skills.
To register:
send email to enibasd@gmail.com
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