Win a VIP experience in the mountains!
At the ACC’s 2026 General Mountaineering Camp
Enter to win the Big Trident Giveaway including:
- Two spots on the 2026 Trident GMC
- Complete gear for two people from Mountain Hardwear
- $1,500 spending money at MEC
The Big Trident Giveaway explained
What’s the GMC?
The General Mountaineering Camp is the ACC’s signature summer mountaineering adventure where we set up a remote, catered camp in the mountains and invite our members to stay for a week of mountaineering and fun. In 2026, the camp will be located in the Trident Group in the wild Northern Selkirk mountains of BC.
You can see more details about the 2026 Trident GMC here.
The GMC is a beginner-friendly chance to climb mountains, travel on glaciers, summit peaks, and hang out with great people. It’s professionally guided and open to all abilities. At camp, you get to decide which of the daily outings you want to attend, based on your skills and what you feel like doing that day. We fly into our basecamp by helicopter. We swim in freezing cold glacial tarns. We eat great big meals together in a great big tent and have some silly time in the evenings. We take pictures of pretty alpine flowers, stargaze, and hike to waterfalls and alpine meadows with canvases and paints. It’s remote, it’s adventurous, and it’s an epic good time.
What’s The Big Trident Giveaway?
The Big Trident Giveaway is a contest open to all Canadians who are keen to explore our mountains. One lucky winner will receive:
- A week at the 2026 GMC for yourself and a friend, including all the extras like private sleeping tents and shuttle to the helicopter staging area. Our staff will be available to help you with planning your week and make sure you’re comfortable with everything from transportation to dietary requirements to your footwear and gear.
- A full gear package for two people from Mountain Hardwear including (2x) down sleeping bag, climbing pack, duffel bag, soft shell pants, waterproof shell jacket, wind shell, insulated mid-layer, and sun hoody. Nice.
- $1,500 MEC cash for anything else you might need.
How to enter
Enter with your name and email address in the form above – that’s it. You’ll receive mailings from the contest partners The Alpine Club of Canada, Mountain Hardwear, and Mountain Equipment Company (and no one else).
The GMC experience
“Time spent in the mountains will not be deducted from your life.”
Official Contest Rules – The Big Trident Giveaway
- How to enter
- The only method of entering the Contest is to fill out the online form including name and valid email address. No purchase is required to enter the Contest.
- Entry period
- The Contest opens November 1, 2025 and closes at midnight (Mountain Time) on February 28, 2026.
- Eligibility
- The Contest is open to all legal residents of Canada over the age of 18 years.
- In entering the Contest, you confirm that you are eligible to enter and to claim the prize. You may be required to provide proof that you are eligible to enter the Contest.
- Contest entrants are restricted to a single entry. Multiple entries will be disqualified.
- Contest entrants may receive emails from the Contest Sponsors The Alpine Club of Canada (ACC), Mountain Hardwear Canada (MHW), and Mountain Equipment Company (MEC). Contest entrants will be subscribed to the ACC Outpost email newsletter and agree to remain subscribed until the close of the Contest on February 28, 2026.
- There is no cash alternative to the prize.
- Contest rules
- Contest entrants must abide by all applicable laws.
- Entry information from Contest entrants will be used only for the stated purpose of information and promotional emails from the Contest partners (ACC, MHW, MEC).
- Prize
- One single prize will be awarded in the Contest. The single prize consists of:
- Two spots on The Alpine Club of Canada’s 2026 General Mountaineering Camp in the Trident Group of the Selkirk mountains in British Columbia, Canada, including upgrades for dietary requirements, ACC shuttle to helicopter staging area, and accommodation in private sleeping tents. The winner of the Contest is subject to all the registration, waiver, and liability requirements of GMC registrants. See the ACC’s GMC webpage for details.
- Equipment from Mountain Hardwear Canada including two each of: down sleeping bag, climbing pack, duffel bag, softshell pants, waterproof shell jacket, wind jacket, insulated mid-layer, and sun hoody.
- Two $750 gift cards from Mountain Equipment Company.
- The approximate value of the prize is $14,000 CDN.
- All other expenses, including travel to and from the rendezvous point in Revelstoke, BC, accommodation and meals before the start of and after the conclusion of the camp, as well as all other required equipment and clothing for the camp are not part of the Contest prize and are the responsibility of the winner.
- One single prize will be awarded in the Contest. The single prize consists of:
- Odds of winning
- The odds of winning the Contest are dependent on the number of entries.
- Selection and notification of winner
- The winner will be determined by random draw from all eligible entrants by The Alpine Club of Canada after the close of the Contest.
- The selected entrant will be required to sign and return to The Alpine Club of Canada a written declaration and release form, releasing the Sponsors from any liability in connection with this Contest or the use, misuse, awarding or possession of any prize.
- All decisions regarding eligibility and the selection of the winner of the Contest by the ACC will be final.
- The selected entrant will be notified after the close of the Contest via the email address provided by the entrant.
- The selected entrant will have fifteen (15) days to contact the ACC to claim the prize.
- If the selected entrant fails to accept their prize for whatever reason within fifteen (15) days of notification, then selected entrant will forfeit the prize and the prize will be given to a subsequent winning entrant, who will be selected in the same way as the first.
- Awarding of the prize
- The winner will be offered two spots on their choice of weeks of the GMC, including Independent Week 1 or 2, GMC Week 1, 2, or 3, and Artists Week.
- The prize of the Mountain Hardwear gear will be shipped directly from Mountain Hardwear to a Canadian shipping address of the winner’s choosing. The exact models, sizes, and colours available will be at the discretion of Mountain Hardwear.
- The prize of MEC gift cards will be shipped to a Canadian address of the winner’s choosing.
- The Alpine Club of Canada reserves the right to cancel or postpone the entirety or portions of the 2026 Trident General Mountaineering Camp due to wildfires, severe weather, road closures, or other unforeseen circumstances. In the event that the winner’s selected week of camp is cancelled or postponed, the ACC may offer a substitute week of the 2026 GMC, an alternative itinerary that preserves the basic nature of the prize, or move the prize to the 2027 GMC, at its discretion.
- Publicity
- By accepting the prize, the winner agrees to Sponsors’ use of their entry, name, city/province of residence, photograph, statements, voice and/or likeness in any advertising and publicity for promotional purposes without additional compensation, except where prohibited by law. Winner may be required to sign a document to this effect.
- Limitation of liability
- By participating in this Contest, entrants agree that the Sponsors will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate the winner or accept any liability for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind to the full extent permitted by law to persons or property resulting from the Contest, including the acceptance, possession, misuse or use of the prize.
- By participating in this Contest, entrants agree that the Sponsors or their agents, distributors or employees have no liability whatsoever for, and shall be held harmless by entrants against, any liability for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind to the full extent permitted by law to persons or property resulting from:
- entry or participation in this Contest, or
- any claims based on personality of privacy rights, defamation or merchandise delivery.
- The Sponsors acting reasonably reserve the right to void, suspend, cancel or amend the Contest where it becomes necessary to do so.
- The Sponsors will not accept responsibility for competition entries that are lost, mislaid, damaged or delayed in transit.
