2025 Season Opener - Sulphur Skyline

 19 May 2025

Nancy and Barbara nearing the summit, followed by Gaggi. 

As a few times in the past, we initiated the season with a hike to Sulphur Skyline (2070 m) near Miette Hot Springs in Jasper National Park. It is a relatively short trail (7km) with 700 m of altitude gain. 

Sexy women on their sexy electric bikes

 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!

2024 Photo-Competition - Awards Gala

 

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. 

Edmonton Night Hike - No Full Moon

Edmonton Night Hike - No Full Moon 

Jan 11 2025

Beautiful Saturday night, perfect for the stroll deep into the Purgatory

Accompanied by Keetcha

"Moon Walk Without Moon"

"Moon Walk Without Moon"

4 km night hike in Edmonton River Valley

Video link:

https://youtu.be/1YJzVUqNJ7w

Ha Ling on New Year's Eve: A Stairway to Slightly Sweaty Heaven

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.

The Best of 2024 Photo-Competition (11)

 Category R - "Reels" - Andy Rutkowski Award

1st Place - "Om Namah Shivaya butterflies" - by Piotr Rajski

The Best of 2024 Photo-Competition (10)

 Category N - "Full Movie Feature" - Boris Bokov Award

1st Place - "Hiking Tent Ridge Horseshoe Trail" - by Andy Rutkowski (25:14)

A comment: "I liked this movie more than those from the exotic places as it seems to show the beauty of OUR mountains, the beauty of OUR club members, and it also mentions "OUR President" toward the end. Yeah, I missed this hike because of the unfortunate circumstances. (Piotr)

Congratulations to Andy!

(PR)