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Toronto

Toronto

The ACC Toronto Section members are passionate outdoor adventurers who are dedicated to alpine culture and pursuits. Our members climb cliffs, frozen waterfalls and mountains, they ski back-country, cross-country or downhill, hike and generally enjoy the more vertical aspects of nature. Despite being situated thousands of kilometres from the nearest “real” mountains, the Toronto Section has been flourishing for most of the last eighty years. In the 1920s and early ’30s, a small group of ACC members, who were referred to as the Toronto Committee, made their annual pilgrimage to Western Canada for the challenge and fulfillment of finding their way up a mountain. By 1933, however, this group had disbanded. The early 1950s again saw Toronto-based members banding together for mutual benefit. The Section was officially re-launched on September 23, 1957, with a motion by the National Club incorporating the Section into the ACC.
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Membership Rates

  • $0 Youth Rate
  • $16 Adult Rate
  • $24 Family Rate

A $5 discount on the above rates will apply if a Section Membership is purchased at the same time as a National Membership. 

Huts And Other Activities

In the early 1960s, the Section built the Bon Echo Hut to meet the need to stay overnight at the nearest climbing area. The Bon Echo Hut continues to this day as one of the main activities of the Toronto Section, and includes a Section-run boat service to the Hut and to the water-accessed base of the climbs.

Mountaineering is supported through the participation of members in national camps, organizing Section camps in the mountains of Western and Northern Canada, coordinated weekend backcountry ski, snowshoe, hiking, and mountain climbing trips to areas north of Toronto and in the Adirondack Mountains, and organizing mountaineering skills workshops and courses.

The Section also has an Access Committee, whose goal is to work with all stakeholders: private land owners, governmental regulatory bodies, and members of the local climbing community; to facilitate open access to, and responsible use of, local climbing areas.

Meetings and Socials

Special nights at local climbing gyms and social get-togethers are also among the Section’s offerings.
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Trip Schedule

Section members rock climb, in traditional and sport styles, at areas largely discovered and/or developed by ACC members, such as Rattlesnake Point, Lionshead, Buffalo Crag, Kelso and Mount Nemo, all located on the Niagara Escarpment west of Toronto, and Bon Echo, 4 hours northeast of Toronto. Toronto Section members ice climb at areas such as Eagles Nest, Fish Lake, Schooner Lake and Bow Lake.

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PO Box 8040 Main St, Canmore, AB, T1W 2T8, Canada

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