Squamish Rain?

[nkane]

So my long-planned trip to Squamish is supposed to take place the first week of August, and looking at the forecast for the last few weeks, I'm starting to get a little worried.

 

What's going on up there? Isn't it supposed to be nice in the summer? Any locals want to give me some words of encouragement?

[jmace]

ITs gonna be perfect, after mid next week we should embark on a major pattern change towards more summer like conditions.

 

but you will need to make daily sacrifices to the weather gods to keep this on track

 

[bwwakaranai]

Summer is over, it was those two sunny days in early July remember.?

[G-spotter]

Bring some maxipads, they can sop up as much wetness as you'll find on the rock

[Jason4]

Summer is the nicest day of the year in the PNW.

 

I was in Squamish over the weekend and found dry rock in the 5.8-5.14 range, most of the routes were hard 5.11s or easy 5.12s. There was a tall, high quality 5.10 that stayed dry until the wind picked up a bit. This was in a steady drizzle on Saturday and it was the only dry rock I saw on Sunday. You should be able to find info in the Squamish guide book.

[murraysovereign]

The forecasters are pathologically incapable of forecasting anything but rain, especially for weekends. Even when they're predicting nice weather, they still put that stupid raincloud icon on the forecast. You have to read between the lines of the text forecast to figure out what they're actually saying. And most of the time, what they're saying is that it might rain on the Tantalus Range and Mt Garibaldi and the Mamquam Group, but if you're climbing in and around Squamish it will probably be just fine.

 

People who are here have been able to do quite a bit of climbing this year, because they just get up in the morning and see that it's cloudy and cool and dry so they go climbing. People who make their plans based on the forecast have all stayed home or gone elsewhere, which means the people who are here have had fewer crowds to contend with and have been able to take their pick of the climbs.

 

That's not to say that it hasn't rained - it has, just not nearly as much as the forecast would have people believe. In short, the weather has regularly been better than the forecast.

 

Will it be climb-able during your visit? Your guess is as good as mine. Will it be as lousy as the forecast makes it appear? Probably not.