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| From the left: Piotr, Bożenna, Ewa, Marianna, Elżbieta, Nicholas (Germany), Zbyszek. Front row: Marek, Barbara, Roman. Taking picture: Andy. |
We started the hike to the Eagle Mountain, 5 km east of Nordegg, as a whole group of 11 participants. The hike is considered to be hard. It has 15.1 km with 844 m of altitude gain.
... is short hike (3.1 km, +180 m) 45 km west of Nordegg. The Relaxed Group, consisting of Bożenna, Marianna, and this writer, did it on 3 August "just to stretch our legs." The hike was not without some challenges and overall quite rewarding ...
... as the falls happened to be quite picturesque.
A beautiful full-feature (1 hr 5 min) movie by Andy Rutkowski showing the scramble to Mount Yamnuska, a cultish mountain near Canmore in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Narration is mostly Polish. Don't miss it!
(PR)
9 February 2025
With a bit of delay, nevertheless with great pride, we inform that on 9 February 2025 one of our members, Piotr Zielinski, summitted Aconcagua, the highest mountain of the Americas and the highest mountain outside of the Himalayas, thus setting the Club's record.
We hope that Piotr will find time to write a bit about this adventure. In the meantime, he sent a few pictures we share with our visitors.
13 July 2025
After unwinding the challenges of Yamnuska at the fire place the previous night, not without the help of alcohol, a good portion of our group opted for a slow day - a walk along Barrier Lake.
12 July 2025
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Yamnuska is a "cultish" mountain in Bow Valley, near Canmore. Long-time Mecca of climbers, predominantly from Calgary, Yamnuska is also popular with scramblers (those willing to do the whole traverse of Yamnuska) and hikers (those finishing the hike at Raven's End).
Yamnuska is so attractive that the song related to it has become the Club's anthem. Not surprisingly, this time Yamnuska was visited by over 20 members of our Club, including the cream of it - all these beautiful women!
By Boris Bokov
June 28, 2025 – Flood Mountain, Grande Cache, Canada.
After a long absence, I finally returned to Flood Mountain—one of Grande Cache’s iconic Bronze Peaks—nineteen years after my last visit during the Canadian Death Race. This time, however, I wasn’t racing against the clock but hiking with friends, taking in the stunning alpine scenery, and reliving memories of past adventures.
... Polscy-Kanadyjczycy? Wycieczka rowerowa się udała, pomimo zagrożenia burzą, ale prawdziwym bohaterem był ... Roman! Poland Bike Team - impressive outfit, though according to Roman ... Made in China! Look also at this short for some ... naughtiness!
(PR)
7 June 2025
The Dinosaur Trail is almost 19 km long, mostly flat, with two "technical stretches." I named it after the dinosaur figure, which stands in front of one of the houses. Perhaps because of the strong winds that day, the ride was attended by only seven bikers (from the left): Mike, Piotr, Grace, Voytek, Witek and (the hand of) Marian. The seventh biker was Andy who took the picture.
19 May 2025
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| Nancy and Barbara nearing the summit, followed by Gaggi. |
3 May 2025
To celebrate Polish Constitution Day, our club organized a bike ride that attracted many attractive women (and some men) on their "sexy electric bikes." Tereska mounted her first electric bike, straight from the shop. She justifiably landed on the cover!
The Awards Gala for 2024 Photo-Competition took place on 2 February in the auditorium of Faculty St. Jean in Edmonton, thanks to the kind invitation by Witek Kurpiński. In spite of the very cold weather (-25C), the Gala attracted about 40 people interested in mountain film and photography.
"Moon Walk Without Moon"
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Our New Year's Eve wasn't exactly a pre-dawn alpine start. We were operating on a more civilized 10 AM departure from the ACC lodge. After all, Ha Ling, while worthy challenge, wasn't Everest. We weren't expecting to summit by brunch.
Waking
up at 8:30 allowed for the usual lodge morning rituals: the mad dash for a
vacant bathroom (a small victory in itself), the kitchen scavenger hunt (where
*are* the plates this time?), and breakfast with the other intrepid
adventurers… or, well, just us. It seemed everyone else was either already
conquering some other peak or wisely choosing to sleep in.
Category R - "Reels" - Andy Rutkowski Award
1st Place - "Om Namah Shivaya butterflies" - by Piotr Rajski
