@WinifredS's Forum Posts

Watersprite Lake Cabin - January 12th Meeting
Stas wrote: Actually, the club has lost a couple of good leaders already. Win, the future cant be built based on arrogance. Ebb and flow, Stas.  One door closes, another opens. I do not understand wha...
Watersprite Lake Cabin - January 12th Meeting
Stas wrote: Win, you just do not understand: the club will lose leaders and then members because of that. You are right.  I just do not understand.  I fail to see how building this cabin will lose le...
Watersprite Lake Cabin - January 12th Meeting
Stas:  It was not done wrong.  There is nothing to fix.  I will concede that things could have been done better but nothing was done wrong. The time to talk about "unsuitable location," "avalanche con...
Watersprite Lake Cabin - January 12th Meeting
Werner wrote: ***Where is our president and hut project manager showing his leadership in this discussion?- HELLOO!!! ***Where is our vice president showing his leadership? -HELLOO! Looks like our BO...
Watersprite Lake Cabin - January 12th Meeting
Stas wrote: Win and Glenn, please stop me stopping! A small group of members pursue their personal interests by ignoring the some basic values which are actually whiten in the head of the constitutio...
Watersprite Lake Cabin - January 12th Meeting
Please, stop with the insinuations.  It doesn't help anything and undermines any support for your position in this debate.  Make a call for a vote of non-confidence or something of the BOD but stop wi...
Watersprite Lake Cabin - January 12th Meeting
Stas: table this as an issue to be addressed for future projects. Stas wrote: I think a few still confused how we got to that cabin: From the very beginning, I guess there was no approval from the cl...
Watersprite Lake Cabin - January 12th Meeting
Francis: is everyone scared of a club-wide poll?  I am not and I see nothing that suggests others are afraid.  I do maintain, however, that any such poll regarding the expenditure of funds regarding t...
Watersprite Lake Cabin - January 12th Meeting
Francis, I appreciate your reasoned approach to this discussion.  Thank you. I realise that you take exception to the last sentence of 22.1.3  "The level of consultation and support required should be...
Watersprite Lake Cabin - January 12th Meeting
It is my understanding that low voter turnout does not invalidate the process.  If someone more versed in such things knows different, please weigh in.  If low voter turnout does not invalidate the pr...
Watersprite Lake Cabin - January 12th Meeting
Francis wrote: Win, You said that you think that we have learned much from this process. So I'm asking what do you think that we learned? Fair question, no? Francis, when I asked you what should have...
Watersprite Lake Cabin - January 12th Meeting
What have we learned...Francis, I ask you, what should have been done differently?  I'll go even further: what process would you feel satisfied that the right decision was made even though it is contr...
Water sprite Hut Post-Mortem
Ben wrote: The BCMC has too many huts that are not visited. When was the last club trip to a BCMC hut? I dont see many of them on the schedule. Skiing around the BCMC huts is not really a thing. As fa...
Watersprite Lake Cabin - January 12th Meeting
I just wanted to say that I am not against the building of cabins. Am I against building a cabin at the location?  No.  Despite all the pros and cons, I feel that this cabin is important for us to wor...
Supporting and Retaining Instructors/ Leaders
Marlaina wrote: I'm wondering what members' thoughts are on having equipment resources for volunteer-led courses or trips. I understand we have some radios, and are considering getting some beacons, b...

@WinifredS

Created 10 years ago

Looking for Avalanche Transcievers
Thanks Rob and Marlaina! All this talk of transceiovers and knowing that several people are renting, I wonder if there is interest from the membership in a group buy of transceivers.
Supporting and Retaining Instructors/ Leaders
iegres has added a new post in the forum topic: Supporting and Retaining Instructors/ Leaders . The post is: "Seeing club's schedule in terms of motivation - a rather sad picture: there are a lot of c...

@WinifredS

Created 10 years ago

Looking for Avalanche Transcievers
Paul:  Thank you.  If you will, suggest for the purchase of two transceivers. Serguei:  Please continue your discussion in the topic already set up for that: https://bcmc.ca/forum/topic/Supporting-and...
Supporting and Retaining Instructors/ Leaders
I like the idea of these: Discounts on Guide- Led courses(23.1 and 23.2 in Policy Manual).  Courses like AST-1, Rock Rescue, Crevasse Rescue, and Wilderness first aid offer 25% and 50% off course fees...

@WinifredS

Created 10 years ago

Looking for Avalanche Transcievers
Those transceivers were the old analog transceivers and retired from use.  They were seldom rented possibly due to the ease of renting an easier to use digital transceiver from MEC. With the older tra...

@WinifredS

Created 10 years ago

Looking for Avalanche Transcievers
Thanks for the suggestion.  There is a conflict between participants needing to rent transceivers and the instructors also needing to rent "for burial only" transceivers.  There has been a few times w...

@WinifredS

Created 10 years ago

Looking for Avalanche Transcievers
Still looking for donations.  Last Sunday's transceiver skills and rescue training went very well but a couple of extra transceivers would have been very welcome as we had a rental transceiver fail (c...

@WinifredS

Created 10 years ago

Call for Participants: Transceiver Skills & Rescue
For any last minute attendees, the training is a go for this Sunday.  - Winifred

@WinifredS

Created 10 years ago

Call for Participants: Transceiver Skills & Rescue
Hi Lynn, That's a good point.  I will point out that the Avalanche Awareness is only for a few hours whereas the training day this Sunday covers single and multiple burial skills and moves into perfor...