Meet the Saskatchewan Section Executive

Don Chodzicki joined the Alpine Club of Canada in 2006 with a desire to meet people who enjoyed the outdoors as much as he did and to learn more about mountain activities in general.  Don's first Sask Section activity was volunteering for the 12hr Prairie Pitch Adventure Race.  Other adventures include Ice Climbing in Nordegg, AB, Rock Climbing near Canmore, spending 6 days in an Alpine hut in Yoho National Park during a Mountaineering trip, attending Wilderness First-Aid and Avalanche awareness training, attending speaking and slideshow engagements regarding club members recent adventures and attending and volunteering at the Banff Mountain Film Festival.
 

Jeff Dmytrowich has been an Alpine Club of Canada Saskatchewan Section member since 2005 and it was initially the Prairie Pitch Adventure Race that got him involved with the section. Jeff has always been involved in outdoor pursuits since a young age but through National and Section camps the scope of his pursuits now includes mixed and ice climbing in the winter plus hiking, scrambling, mountaineering and mountain running in the summer. When he's not heading towards to the mountains he works as a critical care respiratory therapist at Royal University Hospital.

Dave McCormick joined the fledgling SK Section back in about 1995 and was rapidly initiated into the thrills of rock and ice climbing in the Rockies and learning the joys of quick weekend trips to the mountains from Saskatoon.  Over the years, he's been on the Section Executive in several capacities but has had most of his fun leading glacier traverses, scrambles and mountaineering camps for the SK Section and volunteering on ACC hut work parties and National Camps.  He was able to retire from the slog of daily employment in 2004, promptly moved to the West Kootenays of BC and now spends his time traveling, working on the estate, learning how to ski and having fun in the mountains.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joel Bruneau was born and raised in the NWT so always enjoyed close access to wilderness and natural spaces.  His dad and three older brothers taught him to make camp, cut fire wood, start fires, clean fish, shoot a rifle, and canoe before he was 8.  Turns out they were lazy.

Once away from the North, Joel continued to find his way back to the wilderness.  Be it sailing in Oz, tramping in Nepal, canoeing on the Churchill, or doing simple hikes, scrambles, back-country trips and skiing in the mountains around Banff and Southern BC, he has enjoyed them all.

Though University studies put a crimp in his outdoor activities, Joel now has the flexibility to re-engage.  He joined the ACC three years ago and went to Stanley Mitchell as his first official ACC activity.  Since then he has tried back-country and downhill skiing (he claims to do neither well) and he hopes to learn rock climbing sometime soon.

His plan is to keep joining the ACC SK section on trips, improve his skiing in powder, and learn more about leading friends into all those places that make you go 'wow'.