BCMC SOCIAL EVENT - December 9th, 2025
The 14 Peaks: A Life Above 8,000 Meters Without the Mask
We’re thrilled to welcome Azim Gheychisaz to the club's upcoming social. Azim is globally recognized for an extraordinary and rare achievement in mountaineering: He is one of the select few individuals in the world to successfully summit all 14 peaks above 8,000 meters without the aid of supplementary oxygen. Summiting one of these peaks "clean" is an extraordinary achievement. Climbing all 14 is the highest philosophical and physical benchmark in high altitude mountaineering.
BCMC SOCIAL EVENT - November 11th, 2025
" Avalanche Awareness "
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AGM: 7:30 – 8:00 PM
If you’ve been a member for at least one year, please join us for our Annual General Meeting. We need 25 members for quorum — your attendance makes a real difference!
Avalanche Awareness Presentation: 8:00 PM onward
We’re thrilled to welcome Brent Hillier from Canada West Mountain School and BRENTO in the Backcountry. Brent will be sharing the latest from the Canadian Avalanche Association (CAA), including:
Updates to their recommended terrain evaluation process. New insights on group dynamics when touring or snowshoeing in hazardous terrain. This is a fantastic opportunity to kick off the season informed and inspired. Don’t miss it!
Location: The Anza Club, #3, West 8th Ave., Vancouver | 19+ | Doors Open: 7:00 PM, Event Starts: 7.30 PM
BCMC Presentation October 14, 2025
By John Baldwin
Title: Coast Mountain High Routes
John will share photos and stories of the development of his new book Coast Mountain High Routes by John Baldwin. A guide to 46 summer high routes and alpine traverses in the Coast Mountains. These are the great skyline traverses - off-trail hikes through large remote mountainous regions, continuously in the alpine, and a bit like being on a summit for an entire trip. With elements of thru-hiking, backpacking and mountaineering, you carry your camp on your back, never retrace your steps, and travel over terrain that is always new.
The book describes routes varying from 3 days to 3 weeks and ranging from shorter trips in the Sea to Sky corridor to longer more remote trips in the high grasslands of the Chilcotin or above deep coastal inlets as far north as Bella Coola. All of the routes venture through wilderness regions.
Copies of Coast Mountain High Routes will be available for sale.
Bio
Local mountaineer and author, John Baldwin has been exploring the Coast Mountains of western British Columbia for over 50 years. His contributions to the mountain community are widely known and recognized, including authoring 6 books. You may know him from books such as "Exploring the Coast Mountains on Skis". He is an honourary member of the BCMC.
You’re welcome to visit John’s website in advance www.johnbaldwin.ca
Doors open at 7:00pm. Event starts at 7:30pm
This event is open to members & non-members.
Free admission.
The BCMC holds its social meetings at the ANZA Club on the second Tuesday of every month (except July and August). If you are interested in presenting, or if you have a presentation scheduled, you can find the instructions to presenters here