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by Drew
Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:56 pm
Forum: New Routes / Cleaning / Trail Updates
Topic: loose block / blocks Milkman wall
Replies: 4
Views: 6887

Re: loose block / blocks Milkman wall

squamish climber wrote: What's the story behind the name of that climb anyway.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Boswell
by Drew
Wed Sep 17, 2014 2:24 pm
Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
Topic: Congrats to Sean McColl -1st place in American Ninja Warrior
Replies: 2
Views: 7969

Re: Congrats to Sean McColl -1st place in American Ninja War

Must be the Nature's Path, or whatever cereal it is that sponsors/ed him
by Drew
Tue Sep 16, 2014 12:15 pm
Forum: Alpine
Topic: CardiYak Rhythm - Yak Peak
Replies: 0
Views: 10042

CardiYak Rhythm - Yak Peak

New route on Yak, taking sustained slabs in between Reality Check and Hole in My Heaven, courtesy of four years effort from Lyle Knight, Gary Wolkoff and Rob Birtles. 17 pitches (some short), 11b if done all free, some cruxes can be A0'ed to reduce the grade to 10c, although Lyle cautions that witho...
by Drew
Sun Aug 24, 2014 2:22 pm
Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
Topic: Apron Descent Hand Line Needs Replacement
Replies: 9
Views: 30842

Re: Apron Descent Hand Line Needs Replacement

...or better, removal.
by Drew
Tue Aug 19, 2014 8:44 am
Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
Topic: TR-Soling recommendations?
Replies: 6
Views: 11369

Re: TR-Soling recommendations?

Tall Skinny People
by Drew
Mon Aug 18, 2014 12:46 pm
Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
Topic: Logging route development
Replies: 9
Views: 14572

Re: Logging route development

The climbers and trials bikers who live in the subdivision where the trees were cut down and the ground was paved, complaining about a tree or two being cut down in the woods?
by Drew
Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:27 pm
Forum: Alpine
Topic: Slesse - Glacier Conditions
Replies: 20
Views: 58472

Re: Slesse - Glacier Conditions

pic from yesterday, courtesy Donna

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by Drew
Thu Jun 05, 2014 8:40 am
Forum: Alpine
Topic: Escape Velocity, 5.9, Mt. Habrich
Replies: 17
Views: 60288

Re: Escape Velocity, 5.9, Mt. Habrich

Trails developed too. Have you tried this yet? Could one hike from the Chief, and then get on those Habrich trails? Sky Pilot, 4 hrs round trip from gondola: http://www.clubtread.com/sforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=61583 Habrich ridge trail to Habrich and return to gondola, 4 hrs http://www.clubtread.com...
by Drew
Wed Jun 04, 2014 9:56 am
Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
Topic: West side of squam river
Replies: 22
Views: 17650

Re: West side of squam river

IIRC when that wet streak freezes up that is "Great Falls Sip & Dip Lounge" WI2 95m
by Drew
Tue Jun 03, 2014 5:46 pm
Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
Topic: Cowboys and Indians
Replies: 4
Views: 11245

Re: Cowboys and Indians

Isn't a pitch a day and fixing to the ground to spend the evening at the Chieftan a big Squamish wall tradition?
by Drew
Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:12 pm
Forum: Squamish Climbing Forum
Topic: Valley of Shaddai
Replies: 11
Views: 14890

Re: Valley of Shaddai

From the quarry you reach from the end of Goat Ridge Drive in BB you can traverse into the VoS without major elevation gain or loss along the trials bike trails. Takes about half an hour.
by Drew
Tue Oct 08, 2013 9:05 am
Forum: New Routes / Cleaning / Trail Updates
Topic: The Trestle
Replies: 5
Views: 11215

Re: The Trestle

We checked it out in the early 90s. I thought it was 5.9. Kevin McLane told me that it had already been climbed but that he didn't know who had done the FA. I expect that it was originally done in the 1970s, at the same time that several of the routes along the trail down to Starvation Lake were cli...
by Drew
Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:59 am
Forum: New Routes / Cleaning / Trail Updates
Topic: The Trestle
Replies: 5
Views: 11215

Re: The Trestle

From your description I think this 5.8 corner you mention is one that has previously been climbed. Right facing corner?
by Drew
Wed Oct 02, 2013 7:58 pm
Forum: Squamish and Surrounding Area
Topic: Bert & Ed's???
Replies: 3
Views: 26929

Re: Bert & Ed's???

Dry tooling there is like masturbating with sandpaper gloves on