Memberships

Join the Shuswap Hut and Trail Alliance!

Help us build an alliance of partners committed to the sustainable development and
management of extended trail, waterway and hut-to-hut routes in the Shuswap watershed
region for self-propelled/non-motorized1 four-season nature-based travel

Basic Memberships - $25.00/yr

Corportate Memberships - $50.00/yr


Membership form (PDF - 171KB)


Call to Community Partners: Become a Founding Member

Friends,As you know, momentum has built quickly exploring the concept and benefits of a regional hut-to-hut trail system of land and waterway routes for self-propelled travel throughout the Shuswap. The idea of creating a longer regional trail system gathered further momentum with the proposed 5 Rings Trail strategy aimed at linking five distinct ecological regions along the Okanagan-Shuswap mountain trench. Initial consultation between stakeholders began last November, with considerable interest expressed throughout the region during public community consultation sessions in April and May.

The idea of a system of nature-based routes presents significant new opportunities for active recreation, environmental stewardship, partnership amongst communities, and a new kind of sustainable economic opportunity based on presence within the natural world. It also presents challenges that will take creativity and community resolve to overcome.

A regional steering group has been working to develop this concept and put shape to a council of endorsing partners that will guide the initiative into the next stage of planning.

It is now time to formalize this alliance of regional partners in support of hut and trail development throughout the Shuswap.

By creating a forum of partners – First Nations leadership, recreational trail societies, tourism operators and organizations, local government, businesses, environmental stewards, provincial ministries and members of our land resource industry – we build a new kind of cooperative accountability. We are also able to more effectively leverage and manage funds, share knowledge, and guide the next stages of trail and hut development in the region.

On behalf of the steering cluster, I invite your organization to formally support the Shuswap Hut and Trail Alliance as an advising partner and founding member.

Founding Members: As a founding member, your organization formally joins the Shuswap Hut and Trail Alliance as a corporate member and advising partner in good standing for 2006. Founding corporate members appoint a representative to the Alliance Advisory and exercise full voting privileges within the hut and trail alliance.

Founding corporate members are requested to provide a general letter of endorsement to the hut-to-hut trail initiative and contribute $50 to the start-up account, and where possible, to make either a financial or in-kind commitment to support further project development. (In-kind commitments to date have included access to meeting space, photocopying services, use of trail building tools and equipment, mapping consultation, professional services and building materials.)

Endorsing Partners: In the event your organization is not able to formally join the alliance as a corporate member at this time, it is critical you remain at the table. You are invited to support the initiative as an Endorsing Partner. Endorsing Partners are asked to provide a general letter of endorsement to the hut-to-hut trail initiative, and where possible, to make either a financial or in-kind commitment to support further project development. Endorsing Partners are invited to join the Alliance Advisory, but would not hold voting privileges at general meetings.

We look forward to your reply and the opportunity to work together. Please be sure to contact us for more information as we step forward in the realization of this regional vision, and let us know if we can come and make a presentation to your board or council members.

Sincerely,Phil McIntyre-Paul
for the Shuswap Hut-to-Hut Trails and Waterways Initiative