Look Out The Salmon Are Coming.

Soon the rivers will be filled with salmon. The Squamish River, comes to mind and is one of my favourite rivers. The chum Salmon, and the Coho Salmon, will be entering the river at this time. I always look forward to this time of year. The fall is a great time of year. The changing colours of the leaves, look great down by the river. I like the early fall mornings, the mist on the river, and hearing the splashes of those monster chums. So come one, come all and swing those flies, through the currents of the mighty Squamish. Maybe you'll hook into a big one. Tight lines, and have fun.

My Big Wall Adventure In Yosemite California.

Two years ago I had an amazing opportunity to go to yosemite national park. The adventure started in squamish, where i met up with John. He arrived at my place and we packed the van and headed to vancouver, to pick up Brett at the airport. Upon finding Brett, we loaded his stuff into the van, and we hit the road. The drive down was fun cruising, and listening to great toons along the way. We each took turns driving every so often. We made a few stops along the way, for food. When we finally arrived in Yosemite, it was an amazing sight. Seeing EL Cap as we rounded a corner, it was the highest wall that I have ever seen in my life. We parked the van, on the side of the road by the meadow. We jumped out of the van, and looked up at EL Cap, from the ground. we enjoyed hanging out for awhile, and deciding what route we should climb. We decided to do Tangerine Trip. After all that was decided we headed to Camp 4, to get our gear together. Camp 4 is the classic campground in the valley, where all the hardcore climbers hung out in the 60's. For the next four days, after that we were on the biggest piece of stone I had ever been on. We climbed higher, and higher, and it seemed as if it would never end. It was so steep, and overhanging, that I was so far out there that I couldn't reach out and touch the wall. The whole time I was up there, the view was getting better, and better. It was great to be up there, hanging out on the portaledges in the evening a half mile above the valley floor. John and Brett, were fun to be up there with. Brett and I got along well organizing stuff before I jugged the line, and Brett cleaned the pitch. John climbed fast and made short work, of every pitch. John had every angle covered for this trip. When we topped out it was exciting to be up there 2000 feet above the ground. I was the last one to come up and over the top. I stood there suspended above the ground, feeling on top of the world. We hung out on top for awhile in need of lots of water and something to eat. We took the summit shots, and did the handshakes and the congratulations, to oneanother. After that we hiked down to the classic camp spot, where Jim Bridwell, Billy Westbay, and John Long camped out. It was a tough hike down, the east ledges decent trail. We arrived at the van and had a beer and took some more pictures, we celebrated the climb, once again. All of us piled into the van and headed to curry village for lots of food, and more beer. On our last night we went to to The Awhanee Hotel, to have another huge meal in one of the nicer places . This was without a doubt the best trip i've ever done, and the most incredible expierence of my climbing life. The next morning it was back to vancouver, and the airport so that Brett, could get his flight back to saskatoon. Then John and I headed back up to good old Squamish. WHAT A TRIP IT WAS!!!!!!!.

climbing adventures in squamish bc

i have been climbing in squamish for a long time. the first time i came to climb i was with dave jones. we drove up in his van and we went to the smoke bluffs. he showed me how to place gear at burgers and fries. it was alot of fun. we did a couple of fun routes on the apron. the two classics are banana peel and the ultra classic diedre. these two are the easiest. both are seven pitches of more or less run out climbing. we also did a few climbs at murrin park. there were some slab climbs at the malamute. the comic rocks is an interesting climbing area. we did a route called garfield. i think that was the only climb that we did. the climbing is awesome. before i moved to squamish i met this dude ron springer he was working in the park royal mall. i was working there also. we talked about climbing and we decided to go to the edge climbing center in north van. we went there alot and we were both climbing with some sort of style. we went up to squamish alot and did some climbs at the smoke bluffs. we climbed at murrin park. we did banana peel and diedre. we also made an attempt on mercy me a two pitch run out climb on the grand wall. we only did the first pitch. since i have been living in this area i have met and climbed with so many great people. i have had the opportunity to meet some of the best climbers in squamish. luc mailloux, eric hammel, conny amelunxen, adam diamond, matt maddaloni, and john furneaux,. i also met sean easton. i had the good fotune to climb with john. we climbed wrist twister, and cannabis wall, to great wall climbs. i started to get interested in aid soloing and talked to alot of these guys about different techniques. i used the grigri belay device. one day i went up to the sherrifs wall and i decided to try and solo the first pitch of cowboys and indians. i arrived at the base and geared up. i made my way up on some shifty pins, and cams,. as i got to the point were i had to start traversing accross the wall i was a bit unnerved because i was on some other shifty pieces of gear. most of the pitch was a very thin crack. i finally made it to the belay chains and fixed my lead rope and my rappel rope. i rapped down, and jugged the line cleaning all my gear. that was a great day on the wall. in the year 2000, i met robert steiner from germany he was living and going to school at ubc. he was staying at a frat house. he would hitch-hike up to squamish, and he would solo all sorts of wall climbs. he would fix ropes and show up at my house and we would go out the next morning and have a big wall adveture. robert and i also did cannabis wall, and we tried to do ten years after. i met matt buckle, and robert and we went up on the sherrifs badge. thy fixed a few pitches and i went up to hang out and i took some pictures, and had a great day up on the big stone. its a steep and impressive wall. if i didnt live here i would not have had these great climbing opportunities...