Patrick Donald Guilbride

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	Patrick (Pat) Guilbride was born in Chemainus on August 2, 1925. He attended Ladysmith High School and after graduating joined the Canadian Army, however, the war ended without him seeing action. He then began working for MacMillan Bloedel as a survey crewman with the Forestry Engineers moving up to a Divisional Engineer. On Christmas Eve 1955, Pat married Elizabeth Larrett who was an active member of the ACC. She had graduated to active membership at the ACC Mount Robson camp in 1955 on Mount Ann Alice and Mount Lynx. With their two children they lived in various locations on Vancouver Island: Kelsey Bay, Port Alberni and Ucluelet while working for MacMillan Bloedel. In 1968 they moved to Squamish where he retired in 1982. Three year later they moved to West Vancouver. Pat Guilbride's first visit to the mountains was when he was fourteen when he climbed Mount Brenton behind Duncan. In February 1952, Pat went on a five day trip with the Vancouver Island section of the ACC to the Mazama's Cabin on Mount Hood in Oregon. Pat and Alfie Dick went on to make a successful ski ascent of the mountain in five and quarter hours. Pat also climbed Mount Shuksan with Miles Smeeton. In 1954 he was on a Vancouver Island section summer camp to the Elk River valley where he reached the Southeast Summit of Mount Colonel Foster with Syd Watts, and Bill Lash and his son Mallory. In 1957 the VI-ACC had a trip into the Comox Glacier and Cliffe Glacier where Pat and Elizabeth, along with Syd Watts and Bill Lash climbed The Red Pillar and Argus Mountain. In 1966 he made the first ascent of Warden Peak with Peter Perfect and Kurt Pfieffer and in that same year the first recorded ascent of El Piveto Mountain with his wife Elizabeth, Bob Tustin, Mike Walsh, Ray Paine, Syd Watts, and Doreen and John Cowlin. This was a combined party from the Vancouver Island section of the ACC and the Island Mountain Ramblers. In 1967 he went on the Yukon Alpine Centennial Expedition to the Steele Glacier and in 1968 made the first ascent of the MacKenzie Summit in the MacKenzie Range with Syd Watts. During the late 1950's and early 1960,'s the Guildbride's also made regular winter ski trips into the cabin on Mount Becher near Courtenay. Pat and Elizabeth traveled to Patagonia, New Zealand, Nepal and Ecuador. Patrick Guilbride passed away in North Vancouver in 2006 at the age of eighty. Sources: Guilbride, Patrick. Personal communication. 2001. Guilbride, Elizabeth. "Climbing in Strathcona Park." Canadian Alpine Journal. Vol. 37. The Alpine Club of Canada. Banff, Alberta. 1956. p. 57-60 Guilbride, Patrick. "Victoria Section Climbs/1957." Canadian Alpine Journal. Vol. 41. The Alpine Club of Canada. Banff, Alberta. 1958. p. 76-78. Guilbride, Patrick. "First Ascent Warden peak." Canadian Alpine Journal. Vol. 50. The Alpine Club of Canada. Banff, Alberta. 1967. p. 55. Guilbride, Patrick. "El Piveto Mountain." Canadian Alpine Journal. Vol. The Alpine Club of Canada. Banff, Alberta. 1967. p. 55 Guilbride, Patrick. "Ape Lake Climbing Camp." Canadian Alpine Journal. Vol. 57. The Alpine Club of Canada. Banff, Alberta. 1974. p. 66. top
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