British Columbia Mountaineering Club

Publication Year: 1975.

British Columbia Mountaineering Club. The year 1974 was a weird one for the weather in British Columbia. Record snow packs were followed by a summer which didn’t arrive until August, but which pushed warm weather through into November. Our spring training course and many of the early season trips suffered as a result, with only one ski camp (at Kokanee) getting off the ground. The club’s main summer camp was in the Good Hope area west of Chilko Lake, a very successful venture which saw the making of several new climbing routes. The expeditionary camp in the Mount Waddington area was aborted when Grey Norse was killed in a fall from the Bravo Rim. Most private expeditions were stormed out, although John Clarke picked up a few new peaks in the Homathko Snowfield and Phantom Lakes areas of the Coast Mountains in his continuing string of solo expeditions.

Richard Culbert