@Ben
Created 10 years ago
Paul Kubik submitted a request to the FMCBC for money to help with the Sigurd Creek Trail. The FMCBC approved $2000 for this work so look out for more trips coming to increase access to this area. Gre...
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
Did you know that there’s a 38,000 hectare provincial park an hour from Vancouver that boasts old-growth forests, alpine lakes, remnant ice fields, an abandoned mine tunnel and the largest freshwater...
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
Key steps involvement: Members at large are consulted at key steps of the process for approval (for example: site selection, cabin and facilities design, construction plans, funds approval)
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Created 11 years ago
Looks sweet. Does anyone have pictures of some tree skiing? I think the great advantage of a hut is skiing in poor weather and this is only possible with trees.
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
We have photos of avalanche tracks and rockfall zones converging on the proposed hut location.
I have never been to the area nor do I actually even truly know where the cabin would be situated. looks...
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
Alena a couple weeks ago gave the exec some quick and dirty rounded numbers of a total of $110,000 that could be possibly used for the hut. that is a combination of cash on hand, general funds, and li...
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
The lower than $90,000 option was something that was asked for at the exec meeting by some members of the exec (myself included).
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
Hi Francis,
I share your concern with a lack of information being shared with the membership (and have even graver concerns about the information being shared with the exec).
Here is some budget det...
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
Some members of the huts committee presented at the BCMC exec meeting last night. There was good discussion about the cost and size of the hut.
The proposed hut will be about the size of Kieths hut an...
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
Sorry it is gone.
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
I have a surplus copy of The Avalanche Handbook 3rd edition.
Free or beer.
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
The FMCBC has been working on the parking issue and Seymour and Cypress.
Please read what has transpired here
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
Has anyone heard of these bindings or know anyone who uses them?
http://www.the-m-equipment.com/en/products/bindings
They look sweet. Releasable tele with NTN like activeness.
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
It is now free to get licences for google earth pro. Check it out. https://support.google.com/earth/answer/176160put in your email and use key: GEPFREE
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
https://coastmountains.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/bcmcs-north-creek-cabin-hut-showcase/
A gps log could probably be supplied.
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
On Sunday, January 11th 2015, Stephanie Grothe, Neil Charles Mackenzie, and Elena Cernicka perished in a mountaineering accident on Joffre Peak in Pemberton BC.
The UBC Varsity Outdoor Club is hold...
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
Given the info from Paul (4wd low at 340m) I have plotted out the route. Worst case would be a requirement to park at the subdivision which adds another 3 km.
There is about 10km of logging road (dri...
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
I am worried about building a hut in this location. As when the snow level is low enough to drive the road there is not enough snow to ski and when there is enough snow to ski the road is un drivable...
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
Paul,
What did you ski? Or I guess did you ski anything? What was coverage like in the forest?
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
How far is it from the gate where the escort is to the trail head?
I am looking to understand how far the route is from a plowed road. From the description it looks like it is 13 + escort. Is this cor...
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Created 11 years ago
I submitted the attached document
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
At this stage in the management planning process we are starting the development of the draft management plan. You have the opportunity to provide background information and express how you would like...
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
The BCMC is part of the FMCBC (Federation of mountain clubs of BC) and as such we have been offered $5 off the VIMFF
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
The Hubba Hubba is nice. relatively light for what you get but there is lighter......
I have been looking at a Squall 2 by tarptent. Warmlite by Stephenson's
@Ben
Created 11 years ago
The Federation of Mountain Clubs of BC (FMCBC) recently had it's AGM in Castlegar hosted by the Kootenay Mountaineering Club (KMC)
Club grants were awarded, issues around waivers were discussed and...