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Big Mike
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BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2016 - 07:30am PT
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Aaron- nice work on being hopeful. As you can see, there are options during winter, but the bigger objectives are typically not viable. Come on up for some cragging at the bluffs next time the sun comes out!
Nice pic of Al, Ryan!!
Sweet pano Don!
Eric and Ryan L.. Too bad about the highway.. Too many accidents this year.. :(
Thanks for the writeup about your lighthouse day Ryan L and sweet pics Andy and Dru!
Eric is always getting after it. Nice work getting out buddy!! I've been in winter mode but i have been getting into Ground Up a bit and I got out to Cliffhanger with Andy last week!
Ground Up is super sick. It's about time Squamish got a gym!! I'll shoot some pics for you guys tonight when I go with Erin. :)
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Ryan L
climber
PORT MOODY
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Jan 27, 2016 - 09:47am PT
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Here's a picture from Saturday at Lighthouse park doing the "Scenic" traverse. It's hard to see the rope but it's there :)
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2016 - 09:57am PT
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Sweet photo!! Is that your handywork ryanl??
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this just in
climber
Justin Ross from North Fork
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Jan 27, 2016 - 10:22am PT
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A gym called Ground Up? That's awesome.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 27, 2016 - 12:19pm PT
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Thanks Tami! Glad you like it!!
Thanks for the book! It turns out i have 2 copies now! Lol!
That's ok! One of them sports a Tami Knight original sketch!!!
Justin- yes. It's so rad. Wait till you see it! The place is focused on leading! :)
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Ryan L
climber
PORT MOODY
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Jan 28, 2016 - 09:26am PT
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Yep that's me, my belayer snapped a few sweet pictures.
Forecast is unfortunately looking like rain for the next two weeks. Back to skiing I guess!
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thekidcormier
Gym climber
squamish, b.c.
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Jan 28, 2016 - 01:46pm PT
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Back in the day (the good old day that is) we had trouble keeping moral up during bouts of wet weather climbing due to soggy doobies and non functioning lighters.
Now with the advent of pocket vaporizers there should be no reason not to climb the apron on 50+mm days..
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Jan 28, 2016 - 08:00pm PT
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there should be no reason not to climb the apron on 50+mm days..
Wouldn't want to find the asylum vacant.
Crazy is good.
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Jan 29, 2016 - 11:59pm PT
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"The cracks were greasy throughout, and the leader wore stockings."
FA Chimney Route on Cloggy, by Kirkus and Edwards, 1931.
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RyanD
climber
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Jan 30, 2016 - 09:52am PT
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Hey all, if u got an iPhone and go to the App Store u can get a free beta version for the next week or so of the smoke bluffs guide. Hevy Duty and Erica have been tediously arranging it for quite some time. It's called Cragger.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2016 - 08:37pm PT
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Ryan L, who is your partner that took such a fantastic photo?
Luke! I wish i could read that tale brownie wrote again! I seems to be lost to the ethernet..
Tami! I loved that story too! Thanks for the telling! :)
Andy! Sweet photos man! Thanks
Hamie- nice description of the days of yore.
Ryand- cool!! It wants me to upgrade to ios 8 tho. :(
I promised some pics from Ground Up the other night.. So here goes.
Lighting is interesting for panos
I finally redpointed the red route.
Derek Wolgar photo
You can't really tell but this wall is super overhung. Check out my body position.
Derek Wolgar photo
Big Mike rocking the green corner.
Erin Effie photo
The Tower
The Overhang
Gym Pano
There is a bouldering wave upstairs.
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Scrubber
climber
Straight outta Squampton
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Wow, another Smoke Bluff app. It'll be interesting to compare it to the one from Marc Bourdon at QuickDraw publications. I think that one is built on the rakkup app, and can do apple or android. There's a third person working on a guidebook app in town too. Competition makes the best product!
K
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RyanD
climber
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Scrubber,
Hevys app straightens out a lot of info- and for now at least makes heads or tails out of all the new routes in the bluffs. For instance I always thought the route he put a pic of on the cover that I posted above was called house arête or paint it black- FA Sonnie Trotter.
When I look on the app though I see this, lmfao!
Is someone else making a guide as well besides Kevin?
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Scrubber
climber
Straight outta Squampton
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Is someone else making a guide as well besides Kevin?
I meant that a third party besides Heavy and Erica, and Marc Bourdon was putting together a Squamish climbing app. I have no idea if Kevin and Andrew have any intentions along those lines.
The only current print guides are:
Marc Bourdon's Squamish Select and Squamish Bouldering
Robin Barley's Squawmassif - A Scrubber's Tale
Kevin McLane's Canadian Rock
And the out of print 2005, plus eagerly awaited new edition of Kevin McLane and Andrew Boyd's comprehensive A Climber's Guide to Squamish
(Hard to believe it's been 11 years since the release of the last complete guide!)
Tami - Love the Rosebud story! It does sound a bit better than Browneye, or Backdoor ;)
K
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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No particular idea to push here, other than to get some climbing back on the front page.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 5, 2016 - 10:12pm PT
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Is that canadian compromise Dave??
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Scrubber
climber
Straight outta Squampton
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I second that vote for more climbing content!
In search of historical content with Anders:
Amazing to be in near vertical terrain where both upward progress and falling are nearly impossible.
Likely the first bolt ever placed in Squamish. The first of three from the FA of the Squamish Buttress.
Bomber belays:
Spotless Granite:
A grand adventure was had by all
K
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Mmm, looks tasty,
The thing I'd like to know is how you guys get the rope up there?
And for the love of all things holy wash your hands after al that yucky plastic pulling.
That kinda dirt causes the 'Cruds'
Hee hhee hee
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Mmm, looks tasty,
The thing I'd like to know is how you guys get the rope up there?
Oh, that's easy. When a tree is very small, we tie one end of a rope to it. Two or three years later, when the tree has grown to be fifty or sixty meters tall (vegetation grows fast at Squamish) we've got a "rope up there."
Plenty of that in northwest Washington, too.
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