SMF 2012 Day 5 – It’s a Wrap
The 7th Annual Squamish Mountain Festival went out with a bang. Thunder and lightening rolled in this morning. But the real thunder was the applause that erupted later this afternoon when Elise Sethna of Banff, Alberta, set a new women’s world record dyno jump with a leap of 2.20m! Check it out here: New world record dyno […]
SMF Day 4: Pulling all together
Woke up with the morning rays streaming over the northern shoulder of the Chief brightening up the town of Squamish. What a beautiful place. A lot of community and fun events happened today. For the first time I didn’t sign up for one of the clinics. But I saw everybody heading out and they all […]
SMF Day 3 – Sun, Sun, Sun and Sonnie
Woke up to another beautiful clear blue sky today. The weather is just perfect. Anybody remember last year? It rained nearly the whole five days. Maybe I had a bit too much sun yesterday but I was feeling a little sluggish so headed into the forest of the Grand Wall boulders and did some bouldering. […]
SMF Day One and Two Blog Post
I’ve been doing more climbing than blogging and tweeting for the first two days of the Squamish Mountain Festival. The weather here is fantastic. I’ve had some great days out climbing a bit more of that later. First, it’s time to recap some of the great films, and presenters the last couple of nights. […]
The Day before Day 1 at the SMF 2012
Wow, the Arc’teryx Squamish Mountain Festival starts tomorrow. After looking forward to it for so long, it sure seemed to come up fast. I drove into town this morning, the sun was shinning, the wind was blowing and people were smiling…oh yeah, summer is here. And the weather ahead looks fantastic, they are calling for […]
Jason Kruk – Cerro Torre Unleashed
Jason Kruk and Hayden Kennedy are guest speakers for the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival’s closing night February 18, 7:30pm at Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver. As far as big, bold climbs go, you can’t get much bigger or bolder than a new route on the Southeast ridge of Cerro Torre in Patagonia. The featureless […]
SMF Day 5-It’s a wrap
SMF Day 5 The Squamish Mountain Festival ended with a Flash flood, err scratch that the rain came later, what I meant to say was it ended with a Flashed Dyno Comp at Pavillion Park. I wasn’t there, but I know it was a crowd pleaser because I could hear them cheering from where I […]
SMF Day 4
So all this wet weather has started to creep into the psyche and commentary of the Squamish Mountain Festival. Ed Cooper in his excellent presentation showed some slides of Squamish climbing under beautiful blue skies and says he doesn’t know what people are saying that the weather in Squamish is terrible. Thanks Ed, it was […]
SMF Day 3
Whoa, lack of sleep is catching up to me and there are still two days to go. I’ll be brief here and then hopefully come back later and post some photos. Day started at 9am at the Adventure Centre for the CASBC and SAS volunteer trail day – thanks to Peter and Jeremy for organizing […]
SMF Day 2
SMF Day 2 – Steep Shot Photo Contest There was a big crowd tonight for this event, I mean we’re talking packed, not an empty seat, young, old(er), local, out of town, sold-out kind of crowd. And in it’s understandable, who wouldn’t want to see Squamish’s renowned photography talent face off in a photo contest? […]
