Squamish with Chloe
Having to renew my visa was a pretty good excuse to go climb in Squamish with Chloe.
Saturday started out raining but we got lucky with the weather in the afternoon. We started out warming up with 1 pitch climbs in Shannon Falls. Chloe and Michael did a 5.7 crack and Will and I a 5.8. We then did a fun 5-pitch climb called Skywalker. The climb was pretty easy, the hardest part being a 5.8 up a weird crack corner. Arriving at the summit, there was a great view of the falls.
After the climb, we managed to shock the waitress with our order of 8 entrees for 4 people (3 of them belonging to Chloe).
On Sunday, we went to the famous Burgers & Fries crag for some slabby action, then straight to the airport to fly back to SF.
7 comments:
Nice, the last picture is particularly cool. Did you lead it?
Man it's beautiful out there!
That crack corner looks pretty formidable to me...
And hey G, if you're in Portugal, highly recommend getting a francesinha. Your stomach will not be disappointed.
Jealous.
Of the climbing or the possible francesinha?
hey guys! The climbs on Saturday were trad - Michael and Will did the leading and Chloe and I followed. On Sunday Will lead the first climb (a 5.7 crack on trad) then we top roped slab 5.10ish slab, 5.11a miserable slab, 5.10c slab, then another 5.11a miserable slab.
It was a very humbling experience to see how far I am from leading a 5.11 slab... those things were destroying us.
I want to start leading trad soon. Maybe in a couple of weekends in Lovers Leap. If you guys have any tips that would be great.
Excellent!
Well, my first tip is to sew it up when you're starting out.
Once you're comfortable, one thing to think about is the tradeoff between putting pro lower in a sketchy stance and skipping it to climb higher and place in a good stance. You can really tire yourself out holding on and fiddling with finding the right gear.
(Yeah, I know those two thoughts can contradict each other).
I started out learning to place gear on slab, which was nice b/c you wouldn't get super pumped and could hang out to find the best placements. Falling on slab still sucks though...
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