KOOTENAY MOUNTAINEERING CLUB HIKING CAMPS

The Kootenay Mountaineering Club has been holding summer camps since 1974. Hiking camp is the best week of the year for me (an* indicates the camps I have attended). And all this for unbelievably low prices ($450 in 2014, $750 in 2024).
The amazing places we visit mountains throughout the Monashees, Selkirks, Purcells, and Rockies for three weeks are accessed by helicopter. Hiking and climbing are as demanding as you want. There is something for everyone – meadows, lakes, ridges, glaciers, moraines, wildlife, mountains of all difficulty and one of the best wildflower displays on the planet.
The phenomenal, fine-tuned organization – 20 individuals, with minimal direction, prepare and buy everything we need to survive in relative luxury for a week, and repeated by two more groups with equal efficiency.
All campers participate, costs are kept low, and a sense of community develops. Our strong environmental ethic is intended to leave our campsite with only the remnants of our bootprints. Spectacular, bountiful, homemade food that despite heavy exercise every day, usually results in weight gain. Wine.
There is an incredible variety of fellow campers, most in the 50-70 age range, from all walks of life and life experiences.
We have a unique event that I don’t think is done by any other mountaineering club, and at low cost. I don’t think there is anything to change.