The Jumbo Creek Conservation Society (JCCS) is holding its annual general meeting Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 7:30 p.m. at David Thompson Secondary School.

“Well, the good news is, things have been pretty quiet on the Jumbo Wild front – as you know, another construction season has passed and no Jumbo Glacier Resort,” noted an AGM invitation to members. “This is a victory to be celebrated. But there is still work ahead.”

The evening will begin with the AGM, followed by an update on this year’s Jumbo happenings (including an update on the Ktunaxa Nation Council’s Supreme Court of Canada upcoming hearing). Then we’ll look to what may lie ahead as we near the end for Jumbo Glacier Resort, the invitation relates.

The evening will conclude with a screening of Hobnails and Hemp Rope. This 25-minute film follows the story of four amateur climbers from the Toronto section of the Alpine Club of Canada as they attempt to reproduce the groundbreaking 1916 ascent of Bugaboo Spire by the legendary mountain guide Conrad Kain.

Local photographer, mountaineer (including Mt. Everest), and JCCS director Pat Morrow will provide context to Kain’s pioneering of the most technical alpine climb of his era and present a brief A/V show on some of the other 14 first ascents Kain led that same summer, (all in the company of K2 Ranch-based clients Albert and Bess MacCarthy).

Striving for historical accuracy, the expedition members used only mountaineering equipment from the early 1900s. This included wooden ice axes, a hemp rope, hobnail-soled boots, a canvas tent and vintage woolen clothing.  For this modern day “suffer-fest”, they weren’t allowed to use modern technology such as sleeping bags, inflatable mattresses – not even waterproof jackets to fend off the violent rainstorms that sweep down off the Vowell and Bugaboo glaciers.

Watch the trailer here, and join in on November 29. As always, there will be door prizes.

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