January 2016 ACTIVITY SCOREBOARD
January was a busy month of winter activities on our CORE Calendar. There were 4 snowshoe trips, 7 XC ski outings, 1 hike where we all needed our ice grippers, a skating and a bowling outing, and a social dining event. We are fortunate to have some combined Calgary Ski Club/CORE C ski and snowshoe events posted on our calendar. If you see these, book early, as they fill up fast.
As you can see, there was quite a range of activities of for all levels of skill. Why not come out and join in the winter fun in February!
Some January Highlights
Confederation Park Outing |
Great Divide XC Ski |
Marushka Lake Showshoe |
Burstall Pass XC Ski |
Evan Thomas Snowshoe |
Lake Louise Ice Sculptures |
Prairie Mountain Igloo |
Bowling with Pat |
Black Prince Snowshoe Lineup |
James Walker Creek Snowshoe Group |
Norquay to Milky Way Snowshoe |
West Bragg Creek Icer Walk |
January 2016 Club Meeting
The January meeting featured a presentation by Geoff and Lynn on their grand tour of South America over several months in 2015. An excellent show. We also had a short presentation by our esteemed Chairman Mike on mountaineering books that inspire.
February 2016 Club Meeting
Tuesday February 26, 2016 – 7 p.m.
Join us at the Scarboro Community Hall, 1727 – 14 Ave SW. The presentation for the evening will be:
Hiking and Canoeing Adventures in Tweedsmuir Park
Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park – Turner Lakes
CORE members Cathie and John will be discussing their hiking/canoeing trip to Tweedsmuir Park, which is located in the Coast Mountains of central BC. At 981,000 hectares it is the largest park in BC. There are views of many glaciers in the park as well as pristine wilderness. Tweedsmuir Park is home to Hunlen Falls, the third highest free falling waterfall in Canada. With the exception of Highway 20 which goes through the park on the way to Bella Coola, there are very few roads in the park. It is mostly wilderness, and one of the campsites they stayed at only sees about 70 visitors per year.
SAFETY
This is avalanche season, and risk is extremely high right now. be sure to have avalanche beacons with you, especially if you will be crossing runoff areas. Check the snow conditions before you head into the back country…and watch out for those tree wells...
EXECUTIVE CORNER
CORE Events Calendar Notifications
We have a solution for email notifications from the current CORE events calendar. Your CORE Membership Coordinator is just in the process of entering member email addresses into a new CORE GoogleGroups database, and once that is completed, you will again start receiving email notifications when events are posted in the CORE Calendar.
Joining CORE Society Members email Group
When your email address is entered into the CORE Society Membership database, you will receive a notification email that looks like this. Since the CORE Executive will also be using this database to send out important messages from time to time, you will be receiving both Executive messages as well as Calendar Event notifications. If you don’t want to receive any emails from the CORE Calendar OR from the Executive, you can unsubscribe at the bottom of this email when you receive it, and your email address will be removed from the list.
Sample Calendar Notification Email
Above is a sample Calendar Notification email. When activity leaders post an event to the CORE calendar, they should fill in the Email Notification To: box with the address coredotcalendar@gmail.com, then select the Create button. This will send out a notification email to all CORE members who have accepted to receive these alerts.
CORE Trip Photos
If a CORE expedition passes through a forest, and a tree glows with hoar frost in the sunlight and nobody posts a picture of it on the CORE website, were there really any tracks left in the snow as evidence of their passing? OkOk a little metaphysical, but seriously folks, pictures of our club trips help us (some of us with poor memories, anyway) remember where we’ve been, and will encourage others to share in our adventures. And for trips for which no pictures were posted, your Executive Communications Coordinator will hound the event leaders on a monthly basis for photos to put in the Newsletter.
Some people have mentioned they had difficulty in posting pictures to the Fotki CORE photo albums. It has been a tad Rubix-like in the past, but Fotki has improved the process lately. This author did a practice run on a new laptop and captured the process in a simplified set of steps. This is published as an addendum to the February Newsletter at: https://corehike.org/?p=2186. I hope this will make it clearer and encourage more members to publish a few of their trip-pics.
Ask your Exec
If CORE members have any questions about club policies or procedures, just email us at mailbox@corehike.org and a member of the Executive will respond. If the question is of general interest, we’ll include it with the answer in the next newsletter.
OUTDOOR ADVENTURE STORIES
If any CORE members have an interesting story to relate about one of your outings, and you would like it to appear as an Adventure Blog on the CORE website, kindly send it in MS word format along with a PIC or so to the CORE Communications Coordinator (or to mailbox@corehike.org). We’ll likely edit it a bit (we have some skilled proof readers on the CORE Exec), and will include it in one of the upcoming newsletters.
The most recent submission by CORE member Harvey Kwan titled View from the Top is posted at https://corehike.org/?p=2131. Below is an excerpt from his love affair with the mountains.
View from the Top
View From the Top
In his hometown of Calgary, Canada, Harvey has been busy climbing mountains in the Canadian Rockies. “I have climbed, scrambled and hiked many mountains here. My goal is to scramble 156 mountains from the very book that roused my excitement so many years ago. I have stood atop many mountains, but I am very proud of completing over 130 mountains from the Kane list. What used to be just a pastime for me has turned into an active passion,”
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