Squamish

Post by **merrick** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 4:08 am

I just put a gallery of pictures up from my month in Squamish. Check it out.

http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~mpschaef ... hpics.html

If you haven't been to Squamish yet i highly highly recommend it. It is definately one of my favorite areas in North America. It has everything you could ever want as long as you like solid well textured granite. And it is all world class. You can't help to climb 5 days a week there. Luckily it rains once and awhile so you can rest. And if you want to climb while it is raining there is always Gibbs Cave.

If you want a lesson on how to really pull down on slopers and how to maximize power with heel hooks check out the bouldering. If you want perfect splitters with bomber gear go cragging. If you want run out desperate slabs, there is plenty. If you want incredible multi-pitch lines up unbelievable granite formations with tons of history, there are endless amounts. It has great easy cracks to learn how to trad lead and tons of test pieces to work your mad skills on.

Plus it is in Canada which rocks, and the exchange rate keeps things cheap. Most of the climbing is within walking distance so you don't even need to spend much on gas.

So if you are looking for a perfect summer destination, Squamish is it!

As you can tell i really liked it.

Post by **vic** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 5:46 am

merrick: those are really great shots!

Post by **littlefeller** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 2:25 pm

Nice pics,I've always wanted to go there.

Post by **Gretchen** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 2:37 pm

Beautiful Pics!!! I am super jealous!!!

Post by **kentuckysarah** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 3:38 am

wow. really great pics!

Post by **merrick** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 8:11 am

thanks guys. I literally have 2000 pictures on my computer from the last year and hopefully i will find some time to post some more at some point.

the lighting on the tetons was perfect as i passed them at dawn the other morning. i stoppped to get some pictures but my camera wouldn't work. so maybe now i can spend a little more time editing shots now that i won't be able to add to them as fast.

or i could just blow money that i don't have on a new camera...