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I really want to know. The Okanagan Valley seems to be a sporty zone and so does the Nanaimo area and Revelstoke but when you climb in some other areas like the Kootenays, the NW or Chetwynd there is a lot of trad activity - and i don't mean in the alpine! I don't know how many places around BC outs...

Beyond Squamish, 90 per cent of rock climbing activity in BC is clipping bolts

I'm not surprised that this quote comes from someone who publishes a guidebook to Skaha, but if you visit some of the crags around the Kootenays, or Terrace, you might change your mind.

If we're gonna start bolting through sections that are always wet what about the flaring sopping a$% cracks at the bottom of Elephantiasis etc.? What about the Snake traverse? Maybe bolt Mercy Street and the last pitch of Rock On? Where will it end?

if I recall this route hes been cleaned, or had cleaning attempts, several times in the recent past. Maybe talk to Drill Boring (Will Dorling) if he's around cause he had a go back in the 90's and ended up climbing Checkmate Arete instead. I think it was that always wet section at the bottom that sp...

you mean if i stopped drinking, i could climb 5.7?

that huge cliff near oliver is called mcintyre bluff. there are a couple old 70s aid routes and a sh*t load of loose rock. if it wasn't on private land it would be great for multipitch sport climbing if heavily cleaned. .

That's not what the Provincial Climatologist told me today. He said it was gonna be drier.

El Nino = warmer and drier winter. And 2007 is expected to set records for all time warmest year. Expect to climb every month of the year this winter in Squamish.

it's gonna be an el nino winter.... maybe not so good for ice climbing ?

castle hill!

crack of doom
MF Overhang
brass balls
outer space
hyperspace
bo derek 10
meat grinder
z-crack
reg route on careno
bale-kramar
carnival crack
facelift
the javelin
boot top fracture
the renovator

royal flush (V2 fist crack out roof)

no idea of name, ask matt
it's around 3 years old

Kalymnos, Spain, Morocco

I wonder if they have gritstone on Mars