Had a great trip this summer taking part in the North Face-Alpine Club of Canada Summer Leadership Training. This course is aimed at working on hard and soft leadership skills for trip leaders with the ACC. The local section on the Island sponsored me to go. Overall, a fantastic experience and I learned a tonne.
The course takes place as part of the ACC's General Mountaineering Camp. This year the camp was up at Battle Brook in the Purcells, just south of Glacier National Park. I had to suck up my morals a bit, and was flown in to camp by helicopter (the first time I haven't walked in to a mountain adventure!)
We alternated a bit between skills days, and then climbing days. The first day started with a bit of an overview on gear and technology (complete with a show-and-tell session about who's gear was out of date!)
While I've often mocked it in the past, we spent a fair bit of time learning how to short-rope (essentially where the leader ties in people into the rope below them and "drags" them up the mountain-don't fall!). I don't know if I am sold on this, but it seemed a useful thing to practice.
Worked on advanced anchor building, ice climbing, route planning, rock and crevasse rescue techniques, piton placements, and short-roping. I found the camp situation a little too formal and rigid for my taste, and the focus was far more on leader-client type scenarios, which also isn't so much my style of things. Despite that, it was a pretty awesome week in the mountains and met lots of great folks, and learned a lot.
Peaks to the south of the camp where we played around with crevasse rescue practice and ice climbing.
Dawson Range
Grand Mountain
Mount Wheeler 
Mount Kilpatrick
Purity Mountain
Vestel Mountain (if you look close you can see a group climbing up the snow slope leading up the peak)
On top of Pristine Mountain
Purity Mountain
