Category: Climbing

Vantage, WA: Shoulder Season Climbing At Its Best

Thanksgiving weekend has traditionally been my last hurrah of the climbing season. Back when Vancouver had distinguishable seasons (shoulder season, ski season, climbing season), rather than the maybe-it’ll-snow-maybe-it’ll-be-20-degrees-and-sunny…

8 Essentials for a Broke-Back Climbing Trip (and Heath Ledger Ain’t One)

  It’s been three weeks since I broke my back, and I still haven’t quite gotten over how ridiculous it actually is that it happened at all. Truthfully,…

Headspace

For the last couple of years, my outdoor climbing focus has been my headspace. Many years ago, when I first started leading, it was really scary. As I…

How to Get Out of Shape for Your Next Climbing Trip

There’s nothing quite like ducking out of rain city in the early spring and emerging someplace dry, warm and climbable. It’s so awesome, in fact, that many people…

Trip Report: Skaha+

This (Canadian) Thanksgiving long weekend, I went on an awesome trip to Skaha with some awesome people. The end. Ha! Just kidding. And you thought this would be…

Pain in the Finger

During a beautiful weekend of Skaha climbing over Thanksgiving, I began to notice a pain in the middle joint of my right index finger. Of course, I ignored…

Vancouver’s Getting a Guidebook…For Climbing

I was looking for some information about a crag I climbed at this past weekend, and I discovered this book, written by this guy, which will be published…