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i think the idea is that since MEC is a not-for-profit company, once they've used their sales money to cover their overhead costs, they allocate the remainder of the money to the shareholders based on how much each person has spent. so to join MEC you buy one share and then at the end of the year, t...

you can find courses here: http://www.themountainschool.com/ their office is right by MEC in vancouver. otherwise, you can try and contact some ACMG-certified guides yourself. i did an ice course with Geoff Creighton and he's pretty good (i'm sure most of the guides around here are top notch). you c...

Brendan wrote:i think i know the name!!? isn't it called "a waste of time"

lol. and here i thought aid climbing was making a comeback!

if you go to joffre lakes, i guess you could go up to the matier glacier by heading up beside the icefall (on the left), but it's kinda a pain in the a$%. alternatively, you could go up cerise creek and go play on the anniversary glacier. but at this time of year, a lot of stuff is pretty icy.... :s...

If their egos get in their way, well that's their problem, at least we've done our job i agree. i mean, all you can do is try and help people out, but it's up to them to listen. i also think that sometimes people try and brush you off immediately cause their ego's hurt, but afterwards they actually...

Alpinist has missed an issue with me though, that hurts, and Its always late. :cry: ditto, "something" happened to my issue 15 of Alpinist and it never got to me... thankfully, i asked them to send a replacement and they got me a new copy pronto.... but yeah, sucks when the issues are late since th...

Or maybe they couldn't get a jammed piece out and decided to move on. The way I look at that is; I have a job. My time is worth money. I will only waste so much time (money) on trying to retrieve a $10 piece. If some jobless hippie wants to spend 2 hours (and cut the sh*t out of there hands) to rem...

i was up at burgers and fries a couple years ago when someone lobbed three or four beer bottles (empty of course!) down from the top of the cliff... someone could've gotten hurt pretty bad if they'd been hit. i lowered off my friend whom i was belaying and ran up to the top with a friend, but the pu...