Liesure Centre Sponsored Wilderness First Aid Course

Hi All,

The Chilliwack Landing Liesure Centre sponsored Wilderness First Aid Course will take place on;

March 27th, 5PM to 9PM, March 28th 8AM to 5PM and March 29th 8AM to 5PM. For those of you who will attend and have Outlook please mark your calendars for these dates. This will also be added to our Team Calendar. Further information will be posted here as we receive it.

Location of Training:

Chilliwack Landing Liesure Centre
Upstairs in the Meeting room beside the Gym.
Unit #1 - 9145 Courbould Street, Chilliwack, V2P 4A7

Call me if you have any questions: 604 792-9029

Rockin in the New Year

My band, Head Over Heels, played a gala New Years Eve Dance at the Chilliwack Rainbow Country Inn and the hotel allowed me to set up a CFPC display table. I brought my Imac in and set up the PPT slideshow to loop continuously through the night with a few slides that invited viewers to "talk to the drummer for further information about the CFPC".
I had one gentleman, John Mossinkoff (the lead singer's dad) approach me about doing fundraising for us in the new year. He was very enthusiastic and I think he will be a powerful addition to the network.
Several others were watching the PPT and took brochures from the display table....its a start!
To see the band click here. If anyone wants to set up some events that include live music, contact me at aults@yahoo.com
Happy New Year, Team Aconcagua

It may well be those who dream, do most... S. Leacock...

Christmas in Newfoundland is a wonderous, wild and wooly experience! But the most amazing part of this experience is that the people who live here mirror in their spirits this wonderous, wild and wooly quality.

The Newfoundland people are without a doubt an insipiration for all Canadians and especially for our team and the challenge that lays ahead.

As an example; I met a Canadian author, Paul O'Neill, his publisher, Gavin Will of boulder publications and purchased a great history book that Paul wrote called 'The Oldest City'. Paul is 80 years old, he and Gavin offered to deliver the book to our daughter's home in St. John's, but I offered to make it easy and meet them at the local Chapters where they were doing a book signing the next day, they agreed. However in typical Newfoundland fashion the weather in all it's wild and wooly nature prevented us from connecting. Once the storm had abated, later that same evening, who should show up at our front door, bearing the signed copy of 'The Oldest City', but Gavin, making sure I had the book before Christmas... Only in Newfoundland....

I have experienced this many times, in many ways over the past 3 years of visiting this incredible, austere place we aptly name 'The Rock', for in the stone is etched a history of suffering and celebration that runs as deep as the Atlantic itself.

The CFPC - Climb For Prostate Cancer posters and brochures are being displayed in St. John's Newfoundland, at the Boston Pizza and also at the Eastern Health Centre. The brochures will be spreading the awareness, spreading the news and extending the journey from Coast to Coast.

From 'The Oldest City' Paul quotes in Chapter 10 - "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive" - Robert Louis Stevenson. Our journey, like our vision is full of hope, we have arrived....

To all of the CFPC Team members, from the eastern edge of North America..... as I stand on the rocks off Cape Spears, amidst the wind, snow and ice, the ocean spray breaking over the rocks below, to the East is Portugual, to the South the Eastern Edge of Argentina, where we will all be standing this time next year..... A Merry Christmas, talk to you all Jan 5th....

Kind Regards, Ken & Sue

What inspires our Souls?

What is Inspires our Souls?

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly…who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat." ~ Teddy Roosevelt

PS I keep thinking of the "cold and timid souls"........ brad

Dr Don Scaman joins CFPC

We are pleased to announce that Don Scaman has joined our team.

Don Scaman grew up in Banff and has always felt at home in the mountains. He has a special love for the outdoors and spending time in nature, kayaking, skiing, and mountaineering.

He has spent his time climbing the peaks of the Coastal Range and the Rockies, with trips to Nepal, New Zealand and Patagonia.

For the last 35 years he has been a family practitioner in Abbotsford and has been a strong advocate for Men's Health issues. He has helped numerous men struggle with prostate cancer and is greatly concerned about educating men about prostate disease and prevention. He hopes that with this climb more awareness will be raised to support research and treatment of Prostate Cancer. ~ Brad Henry CFPC lead

2009 Team Training Dates

Hello climbers, I hope you're getting excited about next year and the great summits we'll see together. We haven't set firm dates yet for the Aconcagua departure but the training pieces are firm now as follows.

The compulsory trip to Rainer is July 10, 11, 12 and everyone is expected to be prepared to go to the summit. This isn't for technical training but only for us to do something together as a team and learn how well we work together. Many of you need no training at all while others have not done a basic mountaineering course to learn the basics of glacier travel, self arresting, and crevasse rescue of self & others. If you need the training or want a refresher (there is some cool new stuff that may be good to see)the weekend is May 15,16,17 on Mt. Baker. We do a 2 day course then summit. Ken is the only one actually signed up so far so you need to let me know if you're coming. If you can't come on this weekend you'll need to find another course with someone else or set up another one with me. If you have any questions about gear etc. just call or email me. ~ Jim Ongena

Run, Walk, Row, Bike, Climb, Hike or Fly Challenge

Come join the CFPC - Climb for Prostate Cancer Team in a 'Run, Walk, Row, Bike, Climb, Hike or Fly - Meters' - Pennies for Prostate Cancer Challenge.

Whether you do your activity on a machine in a gym, on the road, on the water or in the air you can participate in whatever activity you choose, while at the same time each meter you move forward will be raising pennies to move 'Prostate Cancer Research' towards the goal of a cure!

Stay Tuned to our web site for the start date of your challenge!

Come - Run, Walk, Row, Bike, Climb, Hike or Fly with us....