ALPINE CLUB OF CANADA
Brad Harrison Brad Harrison has been managing and outfitting the ACC’s General Mountaineering Camp (GMC) for twenty-five consecutive years. His father, Bill Harrison, who shared the trail with the likes of Kain and Thorington, was the camp’s packer and outfitter for over thirty years before that. The family ties to the GMC are strong indeed. Brad attended his first camp at the tender age of six and hasn’t missed many since. Today, along with his regular duties with the ACC, Harrison serves as the Executive Director of the Backcountry Lodges of British Columbia Association (BLBCA) and is the Canadian Mountain and Ski Guide Coordinator at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops.
Brian Menounos Dr. Brian Menounos is an Associate Professor in Geography at the University of Northern British Columbia. He obtained his undergraduate and Master’s degrees from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and his PhD from the University of British Columbia (2002). Brian was the principal investigator of the Western Canadian Cryospheric Network (WC2N), a UNBC representative to the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS), and a scientific steering member of the Columbia Basin Trust. Brian also sits on the BC Hydro technical advisory committee for the Pacific Climatic Impacts Consortium. He has strong research links with faculty at Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Calgary, the University of Alberta and the University of Victoria.
Chic Scott Born in Calgary in 1945, Chic has devoted his life to the mountains since his first ski trip in the Rockies at the age of 17. A cutting edge mountaineer in his time, he did the first winter ascent of both Mount Assiniboine (1967) and Mount Hungabee (1966), and climbed Myagdi Mathi in 1973, the first Himalayan summit reached by a Canadian. Still an avid ski mountaineer, Chic now devotes his life to educating others about mountain history and is the author of many books, including Pushing the Limits: The Story of Canadian Mountaineering and most recently, Deep Powder, Steep Rock: The Life of Hans Gmoser.
Don Serl Don Serl was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1947 and grew up in Kamloops. He discovered a love of the mountains in the early 1970s, by which time he was residing in Vancouver. He has spent most of the past thirty five years exploring unfrequented parts of the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, wherein he has contributed nearly 200 first ascents of alpine and rock routes, ice climbs and even the occasional mountain. He is the guidebook author of West Coast Ice and The Waddington Guide.
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