This evolution in climbing ethics has been largely attributed to the efforts of Yvon Chouinard and many others, who pioneered the " leave no trace " ethic in climbing.

Born in Atlanta during his father's days with the Atlanta Flames, but raised in Calgary, Alberta, Chouinard has played for Team Canada in international competition despite getting offers to play for Team USA.

Since then, he has also played for the Philadelphia Flyers and the Minnesota Wild, where he played alongside his cousin, Marc Chouinard, during the 2003 – 04 season.

While Cal Arts in Valencia has become a world force in art, music and performance – a testament to the enormous creative vision and will of Walt Disney, and the subsequent Cal Arts leadership, the original achievements of a visionary woman — Nelbert Chouinard, have been eclipsed within the larger identity of Cal Arts.

Singing Grass is said to have been popular at the rendezvous and also to have caught the attention of a French-Canadian trapper, Joseph Chouinard.

The duel with Chouinard is said to have made Carson famous among the mountain men but was also considered uncharacteristic of him.

Both of the formerly existing institutions were going through financial difficulties around the same time, and the founder of the Art Institute, Nelbert Chouinard, was also fatally ill.

Chouinard also became the team's first 50-goal scorer.

also Later he attended in Los Angeles the Chouinard Art Institute ( which would later become California Institute of the Arts ).

Chouinard is also a surfer, kayaker, falconer and fly fisherman, particularly fond of tenkara fly-fishing.

This was followed by: the wildly overhanging Leaning Tower, also done with Denny and still one of the most popular big-wall routes in Yosemite ; the North Face of the ' Rostrum ' just outside Yosemite Valley, again with Denny ( a notoriously hard and spectacular later one-day testpiece as a free climb ); and the beautiful and isolated 2500 foot face of Mount Watkins across from Half Dome, done with Yvon Chouinard and Chuck Pratt ( with ' hard man ' Harding famously refusing water on the parched last days of the climb to save it for those doing the final leads ).

The professional relationship between Madame Chouinard and Walt Disney began in 1929 when Disney had no money and Madame Chouinard agreed to train his first animators on a pay-later basis.

Walt Disney ’ s promise to keep the school alive and independent was changed with an abrupt transition period in which Chouinard as a corporate entity and a brand, was closed, and dozens of much-loved, long-term artists and designers who had been teachers at the college were let go.

And students who had applied and been admitted to Chouinard, attending Chouinard classes, suddenly found themselves enrolled at Cal Arts.

However, the Chouinard / Cal Arts transition in 1969 to 1972 had deeper and earlier roots.

To help him out, and since Chouinard had been the place where some of his original core animators had been trained, Mrs. Chouinard offered Disney staffers free scholarships in order to train his first animators – now known as the Nine Old Men.

At the time, Chouinard was vulnerable — it had few funding sources except Disney-related ones.

In 1969, the year of Nelbert Chouinard's passing, the graduates of Chouinard Art School were handed diplomas that said California Institute of the Arts, a school in which no one had ever enrolled.

After 1969, the fledgling Cal Arts moved to a temporary location in Burbank, where it remained until 1972, when the permanent Cal Arts Facility was opened in Valencia. These interim students had enrolled in Chouinard, but had not completed their studies before the school transitioned into Cal Arts.

The late Bobby Chouinard had previously played with Billy Squier.

Chouinard was the 28th overall pick in the 1974 NHL Entry Draft, following a successful junior career with the Quebec Remparts in which he was a regular at the age of 15.

Bob MacMillan, acquired in the Myre deal, became the first Flame other than Lysiak to lead the team in scoring in six years and, along with Guy Chouinard, was one of the first two Flames ' players to score 100 points in one season.

Chouinard was nicknamed " Gramps " because he appeared much older than he really was.

He never forgot and over the years watched the Chouinard Art Institute grow into the finest art school on the West Coast.

Between the years 1957-1958, he taught at the Chouinard Art Institute.

Within several years, another well-known Yosemite climber Yvon Chouinard began to commercially manufacture metal chocks, or nuts, in California.

Despite the artistic triumphs of its students, throughout much of its existence, Chouinard suffered with years of administrative problems, including at one point in the mid-1960s a major embezzlement and near bankruptcy.

Though born in Nebraska, Ruscha lived some 15 years in Oklahoma City before moving to Los Angeles in 1956 where he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute ( now known as the California Institute of the Arts ) under Robert Irwin and Emerson Woelffer from 1956 through 1960.

Two years later, in 1999, again on MTM Music and again working with producer Jim Vallance, the band could release their third CD called " The Grey Album ", where drummer Sammy Mangiamele replaced Bobby Chouinard, who could not finish his work on that album.

Born in Quebec City, the son of Joseph Julien Chouinard and Berthe Cloutier, he received a BA in 1948 and a LL. L.

After attending Pasadena Junior College and briefly working as a draftsman for Douglas Aircraft, Reitherman returned to school at the Chouinard Art Institute, graduating in 1933.

Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Hench attended numerous art and creative schools across the country, including the Art Students League of New York, the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, and the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.

In the early 1980s Squier did several headlining arena tours — most notably with Foreigner with a backup band that included Jeff Golub on guitar, Bobby Chouinard on drums, Alan St. Jon on keyboards and Doug Lubahn on bass.

The Ducks sent Chad Kilger, Oleg Tverdovsky, and a third-round pick to the Jets in return for Marc Chouinard, a fourth-round draft pick, and right winger Teemu Selanne.

He studied art at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, then moved to New York, where he worked as a magazine illustrator, producing artwork for Collier's, Esquire and National Geographic.

Chouinard ’ s pitons quickly gained a reputation for quality, and Chouinard Equipment was born soon after in Ventura, California.

Some, such as Yvon Chouinard, made and sold climbing equipment in the camp's parking lot, laying the foundation for successful businesses later.

In 1972, when clean climbing became an issue in the US, Yvon Chouinard began manufacturing chocks made specifically for rock climbing, with the familiar wedge shape still in use today.

Guy Camil " Gramps " Chouinard ( born October 20, 1956 ) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the 1970s and 80's for the Atlanta Flames, Calgary Flames, and St. Louis Blues.

His nephew, Marc Chouinard, played in the NHL for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Minnesota Wild and Vancouver Canucks.

Eric Chouinard ( born on July 8, 1980 ) is an American-born Canadian professional ice hockey player, who currently plays for the Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga ( DEL ).

In 2006 – 2007, Chouinard played four games in Switzerland for HC Sierre-Anniviers.

Every major Hollywood film studio in the late 1930s and early 1940s looked to Mrs. Chouinard to provide the talent pool for their art departments and many legendary film and entertainment design careers were launched under her guidance.

To the Chouinard community, the transition meant the demise of a nationally-noted professional art college that was famous for producing cutting-edge artists, top-flight animators, illustrators, designers and photographers.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s Chouinard continued to be highly-regarded as a hotbed of experimental art, and as the primary training ground for graphic and fashion designers, animators and ceramists.

Asked how to say her name, Chouinard told the Literary Digest: " Properly, oui as the French for ' Yes ': almost shwee-nar ; but generally spoken shu-nard ', u as in shun.

Yvon Chouinard with equipment for rock climbing, including Hexentrics.

Yvon Chouinard ( born November 9, 1938 ) is a rock climber, environmentalist and outdoor industry businessman, noted for his contributions to climbing, climbing equipment and the outdoor gear business.

In 1937, Partch enrolled at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, where he attended Rico LeBrun's classes for six months before dropping out.

Longueuil failed to qualify for the playoffs in their next two seasons, but in returned to the playoffs in 1987 coached by Guy Chouinard.

With that new Merlino / Mancuso / Chouinard lineup plus a new keyboardist called Alan St. John and producer Jim Vallance, the band recorded its second album — which probably would have come out in 1991 or 1992 were it did not for office politics.