The Angela mounteneering club


One of the programmes of the Association “LET’S GROW OLD GRACEFULLY” - Bucovina in Vatra Dornei is to establish a mounteneering club that will – by means of its activity – contribute to a better understanding and obeyance of the Constitution and of the laws of our country and will also encourage, by its activity, the Romanian tourism and the environmental protection in our country, as well as abroad.

The scope of the club’s activity consists of:
- The development and practice of tourism and environment protection in multiple forms;
- Organizing conferences, meetings, exhibitions, film projections, trips and camping trips;
- Organising and joining environment, flora and fauna reclaim and protection, including cleaning up the touristic tracks and camping spots;
- Building of, errecting and maintenance of safety cabins and of mountain chalets, according to the provisions of the Romanian law in force;
- Marking, re-marking and mapping new touristic tracks;
- Leading tourist groups by experienced personnel when such groups request help from the club;
- Organising and assisting rescue missions, as well as missions meant to prevent mountain accidents, by means of experienced members of the club;
- Sharing experience with other specialised organisations in the country or from abroad;
- Organising and joining mountain sport competitions (tourism, mountain climbing, escalading, mountain rescue, spelaeology, orienteering, mountain cross, paragliding, ski, extreme sports, snowboarding, mountain bike etc)
- Creating a favourable opinion in view of developing the environmental awareness, meant to change the individual and group behaviour and the way of thinking;
- Encouraging public involvement in making decisions regarding the environment;
- Assisting the reconstruction on envirnmental bases of the touristic resorts and of mountain localities;
- Increasing the natural protected areas and involvement in the management of such;
- Promoting non-polluting technologies and of durable solutions aiming at reducing pollution;
- Ecological and civic education of the youth;
- Encouraging compliance with the European standards regarding the environment protection, the rights of the individuals and of the groups;
The funding of the club is performed by means of registration fees, member subscriptions, member donations, domestic or foreign third parties donations, sponsorship, state subventions, funds resulting from proprietary activities.

The Angela mountaineering club has 4 types of members:
1. Founding members: - the undersigned of the memorandum of setting up the club;
2. Active members: regular members selected by the management of the club after a period of at least 6 months from the date they have signed the registration request, and this status is granted by the Board of the club;
3. Honorary members: - this status is granted by the Board of the club to any local or foreign person in any field who have brought important services to the club;
4. Regular members: - persons requesting in writing to register with the club and who agree to the terms and policy of the club.
Any person can become meber of the club, despite sex, political or religious beliefs, but there are minimum criteria that have to be met:
- The regular members must be at least 14 years old, and those under 18 who want to join our club need to have their parents’ or tutor’s written consent.
- The honorary members have no age limit, but however, they have to meet the provisions imposed by the policy of the club regarding such cases;
- Regula members must fulfil the same conditions as the active members.
All members of the club have the right to elect and to be elected in the Board of the club, to use the technical and material resources of the club, to the inherent logistics and programmes as developed by the club; to make suggestions as to the activity of the club, to express their beliefs during the meetings of the club, to have access to the activities organised by the club, locally and abroad. However, regular members and honorary members do not have the right to vote in the General Meeting, otherwise enjoying any other available rights.
All members must comply to the rules and policy of the club, as well as to the decisions reached by the Board, to the financial obligations regarding the club, to contribute to the fulfilment of the programmes and activities as organised by the club, to prove a high moral profile under any circumstance towards the club and colleagues, as well as towards any other organisations and persons otside the club.
All members of the club are identified by means of the name plate and identification card bearing the logo of the club, during any programme or activity organised by the club, as well as outside it.
All those who fail to comply to the policy of the club shall be warned both orally and in writing, and the Board shall decide in meeting as to their future as members of the club.

The new members are first of all the students of the Angela School of Guides, an organisation that is part of the Association LET’S GROW OLD GRACEFULLY - Bucovina, and aims at training mountain guides.

Among the main activities of the members of the club, there are trips and expeditions both in the mountains and in other geographic regions. Thus, every month, the club organises a trip in the mountains or to any other areas, where the main aim is to relax and to enjoy life in nature. At the same time, new tracks of touristic attractions are identified, familiar or new places are explored, geographical, historical, flora and fauna, orienteering and mountaineering knowledge is improved.

By means of team experience, under special conditions very dissimilar to the urban ones, friendship is encouraged, rejoicing thus the opportunities that nature offers, as well as memories to keep for a lifetime.

But the true reason for which these young persons are close to each other is, above all, the unanimous love of nature and mountains. Then, there is the taste for adventure and risk. However, one has the feeling that new members are mostly attracted by the state of spirit, specific to a group within which the relationships between the individuals turn very tight if there is the simple willingness to become member of a team.
The Angela Mountaineering club is a family, where any one can find understanding and support, a place where new things can be discovered about life and nature, where one can test the body and the mind, where one can find out their own limitations and overcome them.

These young persons shall cover all tourisitc areas of Romania, as driven by their willingness to know their country and to rejoyce its gifts.

The members of the Angela mountaineering club find opportunities to have fun, make plans and, above all, they discover that they are a family kept together by friendship and their love for mountains.

Away from the turmoil of conventional life, a group of friends shall uncover a new way of living. The freedom, the adventure, the uniques scenery of the Romanian mountains and the evenings spent around the camping fire, they shall all remain as wonderful memories. If you wish to enjoy such magic moments, join us.

“The happiest man is he who makes happy as many people as he can.”