Calculus Crack - Nice write up

[squamish climber]

Was browsing the web and came across this nice TR of Calculus crack by Saif Rehman. There's some entertaining writing in there like this

My hands were like a fish flopping around out of water as I slapped at the crack, the rock, anything to make some progress. I slipped the rope through a draw, TAKE!

Oh yeah, I was on lead too.

Christina was patiently giving me a belay, smiling the way she always does, as if to say: don’t worry about it Saif, I got nowhere else to be. Sameer and Joryce (a Frenchman we had met at the climber’s campground) were climbing ahead of us.

I looked down, I had barely gone a few feet and my arms were already pumped… this was going to be painful. So I did what any climber in my position would do.

“Christina, you’re a better climber than me, you want to just lead this one real quick?”
“There are two parties behind us, that will take too long. You can do it” Christina responded as she sat onto the anchor.

Damn.

Welcome to Squamish Saif. Write us another piece on one of your Squamish climbs, this one was a good read.

[skidrc]

I'm pretty sure that there were routes on the chief pre- late 70's as our friend mentioned in his calculus story.

[betaflash]

@Squamish Climber - I saw traffic from this site so I thought I would check it out, thanks for the bump. Yeah I will be posting another 2 TRs from my Squamish trip, hopefully they will both be there by next Sunday. Glad you enjoyed it.

@beerbreader - Yeah I'm pretty sure that was us!

@skidrc - I'm certainly no Squamish historian, but the info I got was from the "Selected Climbs" book. I think in the book it mentioned the oldest routes was from '77 or so. But let me know if I'm wrong here, I certainly don't want to propagate false information.

[scrubber]

Calculus was done in 1966. The route to it's right, South Arete was first climbed in 1959. It was wholesale cleaning that didn't begin until much later.

K