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The Comox District Mountaineering Club (CDMC) is centered in the beautiful Comox Valley, situated on the east coast of  central Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada.

The CDMC is an incorporated society with over  100 members, ranging in age from their teens to 80+ years. Our season runs from the beginning of March to the end of October.
 

While a few members are skilled technical climbers, our activities are mainly day hiking  (normally Sundays) and multi-day backpacking trips, but we also organize cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and canoeing/kayaking  trips. New in 2005 have been mid-week hikes (every second Wednesday), generally planned to be less strenuous in nature.   All trips and hikes are graded for difficulty and, over the course of the season, there are activities suitable for most  levels of ability.
 

Telephone

Postal Address

Electronic mail

President Ken Rodonets 250-336-2101
Vice-President Marianne Muir 250-339-2796

Comox District Mountaineering Club
Courtenay, BC  V9N 7P2

General Information: ken__r@hotmail.com
Web person: Yvonne Higgs yhiggs at telus.net

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CLUB HISTORY

The Comox District Mountaineering Club (CDMC) is an incorporated society with over  100 members, ranging in age from teenagers to 80+ years.  While a few of our members participate in technical climbing, we are mainly involved in day hiking and backpacking activities, but we do organize some cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and canoeing trips as well.  We also arrange courses in first aid and navigation so that our members may acquire wilderness survival skills and, in time, become trip leaders.  We try to plan activities suitable for all levels of ability from novice to veteran, and welcome ideas for trips.

In January, the club directors meet with the trip leaders to plan an activity schedule for the season, which runs from the beginning of March to the end of October.  The schedule is presented at the AGM which is held on the last Sunday in February.  We aim to offer a day trip most weekends, usually on Sundays, and some longer backpack and canoe trips as well.  Our season ends with a pot-luck supper and slide-show on the last Saturday in October.  

CDMC was formed in 1928 by a few people interested in exploring the Forbidden Plateau.  These pioneers were the original route finders and trail builders in that area, and as the years went by club members extended the trails further into Strathcona Park.  Most of these trails are still in use today and if you look closely at the trees along the way you can see the original "blaze" or axe marks made by the pioneers.  And seventy-five years later the club continues to develop, improve and maintain trails throughout the district.  In the 1960's CDMC made up many directional signs for the Forbidden Plateau area, and these can still be seen today.  Also, the club has placed signs on cairns at the summits of many mountains in Strathcona Park.  For its Millennium Project the club built nine tent platforms at the Lake Helen MacKenzie campsite in Strathcona Park.

CDMC is a member of the Federation of Mountain Clubs of BC and a portion of the annual membership dues goes to that organization to support its work on wilderness conservation, access, and other  issues of interest to hikers, and to pay for liability insurance coverage.