Alpine Club of Canada, Vancouver Section

Want to meet other backcountry enthusiasts? Our Section offers Club trips every weekend, interspersed with backcountry courses for beginners through experts. Whether you are a hiker, backcountry skier, snowshoer, ice climber, rock climber or mountaineer, the ACC has an activity for you.

Joining the Alpine Club of Canada provides you with amazing opportunities for exploration and recreation, for learning and developing new skills, and for good companionship every day that you're involved in the Club.

You do not need to have any previous experience in the outdoors in order to join the Club. Many people join the Club to get started skiing, climbing, mountaineering or just to spend more time in the mountains. New members who already have strong outdoor skills will find themselves in good company. Click here to see the slideshow.

A significant player on the Canadian mountaineering stage since 1906, the Alpine Club of Canada provides an enormous range of benefits and services to its members, be they avid young sport climbers or weekend alpine warriors.

What's new

Posted January 22, 2012

Will Gadd: 30 Trips in 60 Minutes: Join us as Will Gadd recounts his top 30s - 30 trips in 60 minutes! Sit down, hang on, try to keep up with some of the wildest adventures on the planet. Rated R for occasional profanity, mild nudity and all-out good times. Read more and buy your tickets now.

Posted December 6, 2011

Spearhead Soiree a Tremendous Success: Everyone had a wonderful time... with about 200 people attending, including special guests from BC Parks, Whistler-Blackcomb, members of the media, numerous clubs and outdoor companies. Read more

Posted November 7, 2011

Latest Issue of Avalanche Echoes:

The November issue of Avalanche Echoes is hot off the press! Check out our feature stories about a helicopter rescue on Liberty Bell, a successful climb up the East Lion and a trip report from Tommyhoi Peak. Plus lots of information about the ACC Vancouver Section's winter courses and upcoming trips.

The Editors,

Brad and Iwona

Posted September 21

Spearhead Huts Proposal Updates: Our section has joined four other organizations to jointly propose a Spearhead Huts System in Garibaldi Park. Read the updated proposal documents here.

Have you signed onto iCal yet? All Vancouver Section members have full access to our new ACC Vancouver Section Interactive Calendar (iCal). All trips, courses, workshops, camps, meetings and other Vancouver Section events are now on one calendar. Here are a few tips and tricks to get you started:

To get your new password, go to iCal and click on Help in the Login Box. An email with your Username and Password will be sent to the email address you have on file with ACC National. Note that your Username and Password for iCal are NOT the same as the ones you use to sign in to the ACC National site.
To sign up for a trip, click on the trip in the Calendar, scroll to the bottom of the page and fill in the form to sign up.

Did you know there is a place to enter your Profile Information? Just log in and click on View/Edit Your Info under My Account.

You can also sign up for notifications of new trips. Just edit your preferences: click on Change Preferences, also under My Account.

Vancouver Section Slideshow

The Alpine Club of Canada is Canada's national mountaineering organization
and has been a focal point for Canadian mountaineering since 1906