marc_leclerc

I have been adding info for climbing at Harrison Bluffs on Mountainproject.com and rockclimbing.com Look in canada, British Columbia, Fraser Vally, Harrison BLuffs to find info.... go there its fun.

In the second pic is he wearing two chalkbags??????????

Nice! The whole area is jam packed with super fun routes!

SICK! very cool!

BTW I have fancy NF and patagonia synthetic climbing pants and junk but they were in the wash cuz i left them on my floor after my last trip and it took a while for them to migrate to the laundry

is the access to Ratney and StoneRabbit still good? I dont know if it takes the same road or not...

i beleive that if you do the climb but purposely hangdog and dont actually redpoint it shouldnt be a problem.... TR'ing is usually okay too

I know a way in.... it involves rotors and a motor... really is too bad about the road though

is yak crack dry or just snow free?

hmmmmmm.... isnt JMace a meteorologist

Thats basically why we did it...... we had a lot of time to do the climb so we just took out the rope to test out our speed, rope management, quickly setting anchors and random skills like boot axe belays and simul climbing...

dude... someone was burning a crop of weed here in Agassiz and I was standing outside waiting for a friend... I eventually got up and started walking towards his place cuz I was tired of waiting then realized i was totally high.. it was really screwed up.. kinda like reading a book and dozing off then you look back and youve read a chapter and dont know what happened.... it was like that but walking down the road.

haha.. i friggin wish

1Z0zg7qHiJI Whoops LOL

you have a sexy mom .... was that too far

No problem..... I just tend to get mad cuz i feel like the older guys pick on me for my lack in special gear and 'stylish' climbing clothes.... I just do my best to get out and climb so when im older and can go to more extreme places I will have more experience...

A pic of the climb we did from the other side of the bowl... i took the pic last year, there is a lot more snow this year.

is the guy above sporting the jeans, external frame, and belaying across what appears to be a ski area? wtf man.... i dont have an external frame pack.. what is wrong with jeans for hiking through the forest? and the ski field is pretty steep for a ski field.. pics dont show the exposure sometimes... what were you doing today.. sitting on you fat ass bugging highschool climbers out to have some fun...

Trip: Two White Boys on a Big White Hill - Cheam Peak - Random NW couloirs Date: 5/24/2008 Trip Report: So.... I was thinking of going and doing an alpine route last weekend but the weather was going to be super hot with frequent avalanches... I ended up going to a youth confrence in Chilliwack instead. I had e-mailed my friend Jared from mission to go climbing last weekend and when the trip was cancelled we postponed the trip to this Saturday ... our plan was to climb up to the NW bowl of CHeam peak and then hike low angled snowslopes to the toe of the West Ridge to gain the summit. He picked me up at 6:00 at my house and we drove over to the pulloff from the highway where we were to begin our ascent.. We hiked up the creek draining the NW bowl and then moved into the trees to avaid some huge cliffs in the gulley, It was a major slog but we eventually dropped bak into the gulley (now filled with snow) to gear up and hike into the NW bowl... we started up the gulley and just as we were about to get into the NW bowl we got a phonecall.. my other climbing friend Lorne said, "if you look up towards the toe of the west ridge what do you see", and I was like, "holy crap! Its you!" He and his Dad decided to run up to the west ridge earlier to ambush us for no apparent reason.. they didnt go to the peak but they left a cool pattern in the snow for us to look at. We talked and they took off down while we kept climbing up the NW bowl... it was getting hot in the sun and we skirted around the west side of the bowl so we wouldn't get killed by stuff falling on us, it got so hot on the snow that we had to stop and take off our pants and wear just our gore tex shell pants with boxers underneath. We eventually started getting bored of doing the easy snowslope route that Al and Lorne had done so I started looking for an alternative. There were some rock towers above the west side of the bowl and it looked like there was a cool gulley going in between them so we set off to climb this mysterious gulley. We ditched our packs at the base of the gulley and Jared set up a quick belay with my lucky tri-cam and his ice axe. The belays were not really nessecary in the first gulley but we had lots of time and used them anyways, all we had brought was an 8mm, 30m scrambling rope so I led up 30m to a tree sticking out of the snow and belayed Jared up and past me another 30m where he set up a makeshift belay with his ice ax. We stuck to the shady edges of the Couloir where the snow was firmer and less sketchy.. I led up again and set up a belay on a couple crappy bushes and then Me and Jared did some simul-soloing to the top of the first couloir. From the top of the first couloir the slope joined another steeper snowlope going up towards the ridge crest. We switched leads and diagonally ascended the slope for a few more short pitches. Jared's final lead to the crest was quite steep (60 degrees) From there we climbed a cool ridge and up a last short slope (with a vertical buldge of snow) to the toe of the weat ridge... It was getting late and we didnt want to slog all the way to the top so we glissaded and plunge stepped down easier angled slopes back to our packs and then hiked all the way down the trees and creek back to the car at the Highway. Overall the route was super fun with plenty of excitement but not at all scary... there was no gear on any pitches, we climbed from belay to belay. Approach Creek Old Snow Bridge Cliffs in gulley Almost in the NW bowl Our route starts in between those rock towers Slogging it out in the Bowl Crap bush belay Starting second snowslope, above the couloir Jared Leading on the second snowslope Heading up more steep snow, Yes Im wearing aviators Looking down the second snowfield Red Pyramid Me leading a super fun section Jared on a steep section Final Ridge Posing at the top of our climb Big Cheam Packing up Snow Pattern Descending Gear Notes: A few slings for tree belays, light rope, ice axe, crampons not nessecarry... aviator sunglasses and my lucky tri cam are a must! Approach Notes: Up drainage to big cliffs, up forest to bowl... up snow to couloir.

What about Alfred Mummery, Anderl Heckmair, Comici, and emile solleder... all sick old school climbers

And he managed to find time to be a US president while doing it Huh? I dont get it.. harding didn't survive his presidency though - he was one of the illustrive 40% of us presidents who either died/was killed in office or survived an assasination attempt Yep, you're right. He died of a heart attack while in office. On a related node,40% isn't bad odds. Now why did the current president have to fall on the other side of that line.... Because you pansies were afraid of Cheney. Bwahahahaha I was sper confused so i googled it to discover that the warren harding that was apresident was a different warren harding than the yosemite climber we all know.. i was really confused for a bit haha

And he managed to find time to be a US president while doing it Huh? I dont get it..

Warren Harding... put up the Nose with homemade pins made from stovelegs!

Dougal Haston and John Harlin

The start of LD is the big corner at the base of the wall. The Falcon's Crest Wall The roughish trail P1 needs some mega cleaning! 5.8 crux of p1 (clean now) My escape route from the dirty 5.8 crux Start of P2 (clean) Looking down P1 Looking over at p2 of Glamour Boys Nice View A preview of the upper wall! Route Marker at base of climb