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there are so many lines around that will go without chipping, isn't it better to develop those than to spend the time cleaning and bolting a climb that will only go with chipping?

chipping dates an area like nothing else. look at williamson rock - nothing harder than 12c because thats as hard as the local activists could climb during the 2 year period they developed all the lines. potential 13s and 14s were chipped down to 12c complete with letterbox 4-finger slots. in the sa...

What is the deal with climbing at the Rehabs these days? Can you park at the Chek parking and walk up the highway or is the whole area off limits?

instead of writing directly on the wall you can write on a chunk of rock and put it at the base... then once the guidebook comes out you just flip the rock over so it rests name side down, and only the worms and slugs see the beta

Have you ever thought of going Jim Sandford style and naming all your routes after song and album names from an 80s prog rock band?

The nice thing about trad in Cheakamus Canyon is that on a busy day in July or August when there are line ups for every other route from Seal Cove to Pemberton you can be assured that simply by bringing a rack to Cheakamus ort CalChek you can avoid the crowds and climb good routes all day.

:cry: i'm a whiner, everyone hates me :cry: i'm just confused i guess. i led this route two weeks ago and couldn't figure out why the upper section was nicely scrubbed and clean but at the crux i was scooping wet mud out of the cracks with my nut tool. i would be interested to hear why this was "goo...

if i stepped in to finish every time some one else gave up on a project i'd never have time to climb. the moral of the story is when you start something it is good to finish it and pointless to leave the job half done. if you don't plan on finishing don't bother starting. i have a suspicion that who...

They haven't touched it for several months....

However someone did rescrub digital dexterity right next door again. That thing grows out faster than my porn star moustache. Mabe if they cut down every tree near Pixie Corner and paved it it would help a bit.

Whoever did a half assed job of scrubbing Little Feat in the Smoke Bluffs and replaced the fixed pin with a bolt, why did you stop half way down and leave the bottom of the arete all mossy?