Socioeconomic Survey of Climbing in Squamish

[fern]

 

Over the last year, Simon Fraser University's School of Resource and Environmental Management has been doing a socioeconomic study of climbing in the Squamish region,

on behalf of the Access Society. The study has involved a variety of data collection techniques. The next step is an on-line survey of everyone who climbed anywhere in

the Squamish area during 2004.

 

The on-line survey is at

 

LINK

 

, and takes about fifteen minutes to complete. If you climbed anywhere in the Squamish area (Comic Rocks - Cheakamus Canyon) at any time in 2004, please fill in the survey.

 

Forward it to all your friends, and encourage them to fill it out also. We hope to survey every person who climbed at Squamish in 2004. There are some draw prizes from Arc'Teryx and Mountain Equipment Co-op , but please complete the survey only once, by March 11th.

 

Part of the survey relates to climber preferences. This is being done in conjunction with a similar study in the U.S., which should allow some useful comparisons. The survey will automatically be tabulated, and form part of the report. Preliminary results should be available by April.

 

Thanks to funders for their support - Valhalla Pure Outfitters (Squamish) - Climbers' Fund; The Edge Climbing Centre; District of Squamish - Economic Diversification Office; Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection; Government of Canada; Mountain Equipment Co-op; Alpine Club of Canada (Vancouver Section) - Endowment Fund.

[sunyata]

I completed the survey a few weeks ago, and I thought they did a nice job with the questions- very comprehensive. I'm really curious to see the results when they're out.

[chucK]

That was sorta fun (as much fun as taking a survey goes).

 

There's a good dreaming-about-climbing-while-at-work-section where you allocate climbing days to different choice of types of climbing. I'm not sure how in hell they are going to make sense of the data they get from that section, but it was sorta fun to daydream about your climbin druthers.

[fern]

I asked my friend who is in the same research group (on a different project) about that chucK. She said "Computers!"

[chelle]

Hey Fern, thanks for the heads up. It'll be interesting to see the results.