Reports from all trips and mountain experiences of the year are welcome: from near and far, solo or group, section trip or privately organized, etc. Please consider sharing your stories, and e-mail your submission to
To help your editors move as smoothly as possible from individual stories to the collected annual we’ve updated the submission guidelines and provided a sample Word file for you to consult.
As always, if you have any questions/comments about your submission or anything else Island Bushwhacker Annual related, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Looking forward to receiving your stories!
Karly Murphy & Mary Sanseverino – your Island Bushwhacker Annual editors
Basic Instructions:
Submissions for the 2025 Island Bushwhacker Annual must be sent to the editors at by 15 February 2026 — but earlier is preferred!
Submissions should be a single document containing text only with uniform font size of 12.
A Word (.doc or .docx) file is preferred, but any text file will be acceptable.
Photos/figures should be jpeg or jpg or png files. They can be submitted in the same email as the text file. Please use an additional email for the image files if necessary. If you have more than one or two emails worth of image files it may be simpler to contact the editors to arrange a photo upload.
Refer to past editions of the Annual to see how the text is organised.
For the text file please include ALL of the following:
- Title
- Date(s) of event
- Author
- Body of the text. Blank line between paragraphs please. Insertion points and corresponding file names for photos/figures indicated inside [ ] in the text.
- Subsections can be used if appropriate (e.g. Day 1, Day 2, etc. for a multi-day report).
- List of names of participants and leader/organizer.
- List of photo/figure file names with captions and credits after the body of the text. The file names listed should correspond directly to the actual image files (jpeg/jpg/png) you submit. These names should further correspond to the file names for captions, credits, and insertion points.
Note: if you have trouble with determining the file names for your photos, please give a few descriptive words for each file. For example: Image 1 – sunset over a large snowfield. Then follow with the captions and credits.
Download a sample Island Bushwhacker Annual submission file for examples of all these components (Word format). Trouble with the download? No worries, drop us an email () and we’ll send it to you directly.
Additional Points to Consider:
As this is an Alpine Club journal all submissions should reference an alpine setting for self-propelled endeavour. It is recommended that authors give an opportunity to people mentioned in the text or in photographs to check that they are comfortable with the content being published.
People sometimes wonder about article length. We don’t have a strict word limit, but let’s remember Shakespeare’s wise words: “brevity is the soul of wit”. With this in mind, if your article is starting to push up over 2500+ words, do make sure all those words are really serving your purpose!
We know that many of you are also creating videos, slide-shows, podcasts, etc. about your adventures in the alpine. It is possible to add links that are easily accessed via clicks for online readers and QR codes for those reading hard copy. If you’d like to take advantage of this all you need to do is:
- include the link(s) to your online content in your text copy;
- and drop us a note in the body of your email to be on the lookout for your links.
The Alpine Club of Canada is undertaking work to revitalize relationships between Indigenous peoples and all Canadians in order to build vibrant, resilient and sustainable communities. ACCVI encourages all of you to include a land acknowledgement in your trip reports if you are comfortable doing so.
Janelle Curtis, the past Bushwhacker Annual editor, has included a land acknowledgement in past editions. This is a practice we (Karly and Mary) plan to continue. For more information on land acknowledgements see the excellent overview Janelle has shared in the Autumn 2024 edition of the Island Bushwhacker Newsletter.
The Last Word:
If you’ve read this over and are thinking “wow, this looks a lot harder than what I’ve done in the past – maybe I won’t submit a story this year”. Have no fear, we would much rather have your story than not! These guidelines, which are just meant to streamline the editorial process, are only that – guidelines. Your editors are pretty savvy (if we do say so ourselves) and can work with your story in pretty much any format that works for you.
Long story short – if these guidelines cause you any difficulty, drop us a line ( ) and we’ll get it sorted.