SAS is very grateful to the following organisations and individuals for donations over the last six months: Ian Quigley Sophie LaMarre Manouane Deschenes Climb On James Bourgeois Vincent Beasse Connor Clark Liam Hornby We would especially like to thank Counterpart Coffee for an unexpected and very generous
Read more →Following on from January’s AGM, the society is making available its 2018 Annual report.
Read more →Todd Gerhart resigned from the SAS board in November last year, citing increased time pressure at work (he is a senior federal lawyer) and other personal commitments. He had been on the board of the society continuously since its foundation in 2004, occupying both the
Read more →The society’s annual general meeting for 2019 will take place at 7pm on Sunday 27th January in the community room at Ground Up, Squamish. The agenda will be as follows: 1) Call to Order 2) Motion to accept last year’s minutes 3) Treasurer’s Report 4) 2017 SAS
Read more →The attached new bylaws will be voted on at the 27th January 2019 AGM. Proposed bylaws
Read more →SAS has been asked by news media on several occasions to comment on the Squamish Canyon tourist destination project. As a climbing advocacy group we look at land-use proposals in Squamish purely in terms of: direct impact on climbing assets within the proposed area indirect impacts on
Read more →SAS is pleased to announce the construction of cedar fencing in the Grand Wall boulders. With the growing popularity of bouldering, there has been an increase in the number of climbers frequenting this area. Many of these climbers are wandering off trail, causing unnecessary impact. The purpose
Read more →The Squamish Access Society would like to call attention to two incidents of unfortunate and destructive activity which have recently occured in the Grandwall Boulders. Specifically climbers have been manufacturing holds, and using a blowtorch on the rock. While climbing is a sport in which we are
Read more →Before the municipal election, SAS asked all of the candidates to answer four questions. About half the candidates responded. Of the seven candidates recently elected to council, five gave responses. The questions and responses are noted below. QUESTIONS 1. Low-cost visitor camping Context. In May 2018 our
Read more →SAS is very grateful to the following organisations for generous donations during the summer: Rampage DMM We are also very grateful to Steve Swenson for gifting us copies of his book “Karakoram” for re-sale at the Arcteryx academy event, and also for helping at our booth. Thanks
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