Articles

  • A Ski Family’s Holiday Gift Guide

    from the Family Adventures page HERE    

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  • The Last Alder

    .. or The Story of the Swan Creek Trail (SCT) Alders are vicious and mean. They ruin trails. They ruin…

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  • How to get news of what’s going on in the Calgary Section

    A few people have been asking so we thought we’d summarize it here: Events/Trips notifications: To subscribe to our various…

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  • ACC Calgary Section Events

    Hey ACC Members, we apologize for the Breeze hiccup last week!! Technology is great when it works but it doesn’t…

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  • Gotta do This in November! 

    Read the details on the Family Adventures in the Canadian Rockies page: HERE Basically no excuse for staying inside!

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  • Monthly Social – Tuesday November 21

    It will be time for our AGM followed by Mark Carlson who will enthral us with the tales about the new…

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  • Meet Ken Baxter

    ..our ACC Training & Leadership Committee Chair: I joined the Calgary Section of the ACC in 1985. An 8-year hiatus…

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  • How Alberta’s eagle expressway was spotted 25 years ago

    For a quarter-century, Peter Sherrington and a few thousand fellow eagle enthusiasts have beenscanning the skies west of Calgary, counting…

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  • Auto-Blocks for Efficient Follow-Belaying

    I recently noticed that many climbers never use auto-blocks for belaying their followers. Even some very experienced climbers seem to…

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  • Pika preparing for winter

    With the gorgeous and rugged peaks of Banff National Park as the backdrop, camera assistant Darren West and the team…

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