Alpine Club of Canada

Like all ACC chapters, the Thunder Bay Section is a place where climbers connect to find partners and do some climbing. Sometimes those partnerships last a route, and sometimes they last a lifetime.

This story comes to us from the book Mountain Voices. Paired with photos from the Mountain Legacy Project, Mountain Voices is a collection of unique short essays from alpinists, activists, artists, and mountain researchers as they share their unique and fascinating perspectives.

Wallace (Wally) Richard Joyce was born in Cranbrook, BC in 1915, and by the time his family moved to Calgary he was already making pilgrimages to Banff and Waterton with his Boy Scout troop, a young boy with a Kodak camera and an unquenchable sense of wonder. He would carry both the camera and the wonder for the next nine decades.

What has kept me coming back—and what I hope will continue to draw people to
the GMC?
The General Mountaineering Camp (GMC) means many things to many people,
for a wide range of reasons. For me, it has always been about the people. Some of
those I met at my very first camp in 2003 at Snowy Pass remain close friends to
this day. That sense of connection—formed through shared challenges in remote
places, often far from the distractions of everyday life—is powerful, and it
endures.

Please join us for our Annual General Meeting May 14, at 5pm MT, where we’ll reflect on the past year and look ahead to what’s next. In addition to updates from the President and Executive Director, we will present the audited financial statements for the 2025 fiscal year, introduce incoming board members, recognize outgoing directors, and celebrate this year’s Volunteer Award recipients.

Summit Shaker: Summer Kickoff Week Summit Shaker – Summer Kickoff Week Celebrate with your community.  Celebrate with your community.  June 2- 7, 2026 – Canmore & the Bow Valley 5 events Canmore, AB All levels welcome Free to $375 At home in the mountains. Ever shifting mountainscapes, trees stretching to meet the sky, the drum […]

St. Boniface doesn’t have many tall structures except for two towers. And rather than the site of a Middle Earth war of fantastic proportions, one of them is the site of volunteer contributions of fantastic proportions.

Behind the scenes at The Alpine Club of Canada’s General Mountaineering Camp kitchen.
There are kitchens, and then there are kitchens in the clouds.
At the Alpine Club of Canada’s General Mountaineering Camp, the kitchen sits high in the alpine, far from roads, grocery stores, and predictable weather. Everything needed to feed up to fifty people arrives by helicopter. After that, meals rely on planning, teamwork, and a willingness to adapt.
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Le dimanche 1er février, 2026, sept membres du Club alpin du Canada (CAC), accompagnés de deux guides, se sont rassemblés à la coopérative Intervale, près de Saint‑Donat (QC), enthousiastes de participer au tout premier cours national de leadership hivernal offert dans l’Est du Canada par le CAC.

On Sunday, Feb 1, 2026, seven members of the Alpine Club of Canada and their two guides checked in to the Intervale Cooperative near St. Donat, QC, excited to be part of the first ever ACC National Winter Leadership course offered in Eastern Canada. The course aimed to support members who are trip leaders or are interested in leading alpine touring section trips.