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There are about 4 places named Skookumchuck I can think of in BC alone. Which one?

More like a dozen than 70 Only Meager Creek, Keyhole Falls, Skookumchuck and Sloquet are worth going to. You might be able to get to Skookumchuck (the one with the beer cans) if the road is plowed. You definitely won't be able to get to Meager or Keyhole until May (35 km ski up gated road plus bridge is out) and Sloquet won't be accessible until April at the earliest for similar reasons.

Where's your 8a.knit scorecard big talker?

I'm better at bouldering than at knitting, so I guess by the same logic knitting must be a pretty exacting discipline.

I don't think there is any ice in right now in the geographic area you specify. You might try the Moaning Tree Wall although you will have to walk in about 2km from the point your car will get to to see if it's in or not. Mystery Roach north of Whistler is another option that also probably isn't in.

If you kayak over to Tumbo Island in the Gulf Islands (just across the border from the San Juans) there's a 3 mile long V2 waterline traverse on pocketed sandstone.

http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=1480 Now presumed dead

Those king size mats can be pretty heavy for some girl with skinny legs to carry around!

You can call down up but that doesn't make it so.

Now that Evo's president, Bolivian flake is trendy again!

I took a Factor 2 fall on a daisy chain!

The average gym climber wants to sport climb outside. On sport climbing, they find that it's sometimes a long way between cruxes so they take up bouldering which is all crux and no filler. But the bouldering is better the longer it is so they start highballing. it's only a short step from highballs to trad climbing - runout trad climbing is really just a series of highballs above gear instead of mats - and trad climbing leads to alpine climbing. There you have it. Gym climbing is the lowest rung on the ladder and alpinism the highest.

Maybe this will make things clearer? red dashed line = current snow level green arrow = our approach blue X = our belay and packs purple - route you and Scott climbed. I didn't climb it so if you say WI4+ I guess it was. orange - route Steve and I climbed. Belays marked In neither case was it a full 30m to rap sO i guess total length was more like 50-55m than 60m but there was easily another 20-30m of lower angle wallow to the top of the route from there. Interesting that Brent told me it was WI5 and a full pitch the day after he climbed it and then told you it was WI4+ and 30m when you were writing the guidebook. Then again he told me that Skaha was on the direct route from Jasper to Bella Coola once too.

All the cool (free) ones are going to be unreachable this weekend. Unless you have a helicopter. So basically it's Harrison Hot Springs or nothin'

The images are all taken on the east side of Nusatsum River, well north of Ape Lake and the Monarch and just south of Nusatsum Peak itself. Mosquito Pass may be reached via a bushwack. This is a trailless area and requires competence in route finding and map reading. For easier scrambling and hiking I would recommend the Rainbow Range in Tweedsmuir Park which is accessible by trail from the top of the Big Hill. Another good idea would be to follow the Turner Lakes Chain trail past Hunlen Falls then gain the rolling alpine terrain above the lakes as it is much less steep and technical than in the Nusatsum area and the views are just as good.

Well why would you quarantine the fatties if there wasn't a danger of transmission? Aside from the fact that fat ppl are sometimes hazardous to view, especially in tight bathing suits .

his student is hoping richard will move right and start spooning

If you look at Jesse's photo we belayed above the first visible ice in that shot which was, in fact, more of a ski slope than an ice climb this year.

Earthly makes the approach Nepopekum from the trail on the way to GWTF Foreshortened view of route and Earthly's head Don does some zamboni work looking for ice underneath the junk. Bigger versions of thumbnails are in the gallery.

Spray cures ulcers!

They used to think ulcers were caused by working too hard, too. If they can develop a vaccine and make fat people skinny, think of the benefit to society and your tax bill.

I think I can improve on your methods using some chiaroscuro shading.

I have photos in a wet camera at home

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It's a consummate V.