We hit the road and we're stoked to finally be on our road trip. The Plan:
Head west to Squamish for some world class rock climbing on the granite slabs of the Chief
Head north a bit and check out Whistler and do some backpacking to some glaciers and a hut
Head south catch a ferry to Vancouver Island - hang out with some of shauns extended family - they're bringing us out on their fishing boat.
Spend a week touring up Van. Is.
Catch a 2 day ferry through the west coast fiords to just south of the southern tip of Alaska
Spend 3 weeks road tripping back to the Canadian rockies - find a job for the winter.
So chapter one: Climbing
Shaun climbing the previously unclimbed "Cobra Crack" (5.14a)...Amazing, did it with a blindfold on the second time. Claims he "feels" the climbing more when he cant see - cougbullshitcough. (Dont mind the trees in the picture that are growing completely horizontal, i wouldn't rotate a picture to make it look more hardcore, or anything.)
Ah...the proper angle of the crack. This was the first big multi-pitch (5 for this one) climb i had done, and it was trad too which was exciting to practice placing some bits.
We spent 2 days climbing..here's some of the other pics
5 pitches up the South Apron and overlooking Squamish at sunset. Stoked! Team Xtreme
A little bugger that climbed better than all of us...but he's got 34 arms or something crazy like that.
We got dominated on this "easy" trad climb and i had to down climb off of the first Cam that i had ever placed - dodgy for sure, but it was bomber.
Head north a bit and check out Whistler and do some backpacking to some glaciers and a hut
Head south catch a ferry to Vancouver Island - hang out with some of shauns extended family - they're bringing us out on their fishing boat.
Spend a week touring up Van. Is.
Catch a 2 day ferry through the west coast fiords to just south of the southern tip of Alaska
Spend 3 weeks road tripping back to the Canadian rockies - find a job for the winter.
So chapter one: Climbing
Shaun climbing the previously unclimbed "Cobra Crack" (5.14a)...Amazing, did it with a blindfold on the second time. Claims he "feels" the climbing more when he cant see - cougbullshitcough. (Dont mind the trees in the picture that are growing completely horizontal, i wouldn't rotate a picture to make it look more hardcore, or anything.)
Ah...the proper angle of the crack. This was the first big multi-pitch (5 for this one) climb i had done, and it was trad too which was exciting to practice placing some bits.
We spent 2 days climbing..here's some of the other pics
5 pitches up the South Apron and overlooking Squamish at sunset. Stoked! Team Xtreme
A little bugger that climbed better than all of us...but he's got 34 arms or something crazy like that.
We got dominated on this "easy" trad climb and i had to down climb off of the first Cam that i had ever placed - dodgy for sure, but it was bomber.
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