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Fish Boy
Trad climber
Vancouver
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Aug 21, 2012 - 03:56pm PT
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Yeah Paul, them's the one's.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 21, 2012 - 04:36pm PT
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My first guess is that Harry's photos are from Princess Louisa Inlet and area, but every fjord up and down the coast has similar features.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 21, 2012 - 04:39pm PT
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LOL!
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Aug 21, 2012 - 05:42pm PT
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Mike,
Pending confirmation with a couple key players (like Ms. Chief!), I'm aiming for Saturday Sept. 8 for the 1st Annual Psyche Ledge Rendezvous. If that conflicts with someone's plans for a massive road ride on Hwy 99, a BBQ, Outdoor Rock Concert, pedicure or Yoga retreat, I DON"T CARE!
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Scraptee
Trad climber
Tacoma
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Aug 21, 2012 - 07:27pm PT
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We planned a long weekend in Squamish not knowing that we’d be celebrating BC Day. We need to have BC Day in Tacoma... We did a bunch of relatively new (for me) routes in stellar August weather, especially for Squamish. On Friday at 2 p.m. we held number 3 in the queue for Skywlaker. Despite the line, it was fun, with a casual approach that should take some of the pressure off of Diedre. Saturday had temps in the 90s (32°C) so we headed for Europa, a 7-pitch, alpine-flavored, tragically misunderstood route. Yeah it was a bit loose in places but the setting was great and there were no crowds. If it was an alpine route in the Cascades it would probably see more ascents, espeically on a 3-day weekend. Sunday, with more high temps, we played on the Apron with Rambles and Over the Rainbow. We ended the trip with a drive up the Cheakamus R. Canyon and had a blast on Star Check Aręte, 5.9 (one well protected move). Great trip to a great place
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 21, 2012 - 07:31pm PT
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Awesome Perry! Screw those spandex wearing skinny tire riding motherf*ckers! ;)
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TheSoloClimber
Trad climber
Vancouver
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Aug 21, 2012 - 10:45pm PT
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Hi Scraptee! I'm the guy who soloed past you on Skywalker, then met you again up on Bellygood just as you were topping out (I had just gotten off the Grand) and then ran into you once more in the liquor store.
Nice meeting you, and glad you enjoyed your time here!
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MH2
climber
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Aug 21, 2012 - 11:23pm PT
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Death by tray it shall be.
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MH2
climber
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Aug 21, 2012 - 11:40pm PT
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Ask Jeff Vader.
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MH2
climber
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Aug 22, 2012 - 12:34am PT
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Great thread. Thanks to all who post.
I saw RyanD at the Bluffs today.
Some of what I've been out to lately:
A few minutes before dropping a shoe most of the way down Unfinished Symphony
Quercus-ing (first photo below mislabeled as 31 Aug, should be 31 July)
A few hours before almost dropping Michael from the top of Black Dyke
The last time I did this route was with Sig Isaac and John Rosholt
A sport area left behind by an advanced civilization
Old friends from Seattle met doing Hard On
Hanger-less bolt at the top of p1 Genius Loci
At play in the boulders
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pazzo
climber
Vancouver BC
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Aug 22, 2012 - 01:53am PT
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Jim,
Pic 6 is me on Agonal ;)
If you would like to see Cerberus pics, I have dozens (and dozens).
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pazzo
climber
Vancouver BC
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Aug 22, 2012 - 02:02am PT
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Here, Cerberus...
Photo taken from Malamute by Andy C (MH2)
Also taken by Andy (from the belay this time)
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Aug 22, 2012 - 02:57am PT
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Scraptree: Good to read your positive impression of Europa/Crap Crags. It has always been a "tragically misunderstood route." Misunderstood and slagged mostly by those who have never done it!
MH2:
Pic #1. Are both climbers clipped to a single Fixe rap hanger?
Pic #2. Setting the cam, or a little French Free? :-)
Nice selection of pix.
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MH2
climber
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Aug 22, 2012 - 10:33am PT
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Hamie,
2 bolts in use in #1, one out of view
No weighting of the cam in #2
I guess you recognize Crap Crags/Europa in #5?
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Aug 22, 2012 - 11:12am PT
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MH2: That's one scarey chockstone [?] in #5!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Aug 22, 2012 - 11:29am PT
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Crap Crags ought to have been one of the most popular long routes at Squamish.
I know I've said this before, but I never understood why there weren't
line-ups for it.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Aug 22, 2012 - 11:37am PT
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Wow! So many awesome photos, and stories! Thanks to all for contributing. MH2 it was nice to meet you for a brief moment yesterday. If you had shown up 5 min earlier you could have seen me screaming & whipping off the top of crime! After you left i realized i wanted to tell you how much i enjoy your photos, only to see a bunch more here now! So much climbing happening in Squamish these days & so many awesome posts with awesome photos from recent to this thread from many. Amazing!
I'll add a few from Sunday when me & my friend Josh & i had planned to go check out this 3 star route called planet caravan. Well we got about 1 pitch up which was one of the more stressful warmups i've done, weird smearing with no handholds up a groove past 4 bolts at which time a crack sort of appears under the few inches of needles & grime. After digging my way up this pitch with my nut tool we had a peek at the next which looked like a bolt ladder to some runout slab climbing on black lichen coated granite. We decided that maybe heading back to the forest & getting on something a little more brazilian would be a good way to worship at the temple on this fine day of the lord. The upper part of this route looked amazing & i think it is likely of high quality but it seemed as though it hadn't been climbed this year or maybe even last year. We cleaned up most of the holds & placements on the first pitch which was really cool climbing but just a tad too filthy. There is also some major treed ledges above which could contribute to the excess needles on this route. Anyone (scrubber?) know anything about how clean the upper pitches are on this?
So we headed over to liquid gold. Here's some belayer taken butt shots with an iphone for all you photogs who will obviously be curious as to what kind of glass i've got :-) This is a mega route that deserves classic status, go do it. We did some newly scrubbed fingercrackish variation to the left of the p3 chimney, anyone have info?
Cerberus looks wild, here's a view of it from crescent tower. Marc Andre & a lady who he was swinging leads with can be seen heading up the dykes.
Speaking of Star cheak anyone here know anything about an accident/rescue down there? I saw emergency vehicles parked at the top the other day & it looked like they were organizing/executing a rescue near the spot where the climb tops out.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 22, 2012 - 01:27pm PT
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Wow is right! A party, another couple lurkers, another beautiful post from mh2, ryand throwing his hat into the ring too! Haven't got a chance to peep the pics yet since im on my phone but looking forward to it.
Europa is on the list, maybe soon? Hmm....
Got a quick run up Banana Peel in with Sandra last night. Simul went well, it was good training for ultimate this weekend.
Stoked to see everyone on the 8th and meet some of you who i have not had a chance to meet!
Edit: beware the death tray!
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Fish Boy
Trad climber
Vancouver
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Aug 23, 2012 - 01:37am PT
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Led all pitches on The Great Game today...maybe my favourite route I ever done at Squamish?
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