Squamish, Feb. 20, 2005

The weekend after Trev came down to visit us in Seattle, Roanne and I drove up to visit him in Vancouver, where he was staying with his friend Fil. We hung out in Vancouver on Saturday, enjoying the nice weather with a run around Stanley Park and a walk to MEC, and then on Sunday we made the pilgrimage to the holy land, Squamish. We started out with some climbing in the Smoke Bluffs, which was fun. Apparantly people like the sun, because it seemed like everyone climbing in the Smokies that day was at the preeminent southern facing crag, Penny Lane. We did a few runs on the crags namesaky, Penny Lane (5.9), then did a run up Quarryman (5.8), then decided to go do a hike. Shown below are photos of me on Penny Lane and Roanne on Quarryman:

We headed to the Chief, and hiked up the third summit, which none of us had been up before. It is the highest and least traveled summit of the chief, and we all enjoyed the hike and the views from the top. It had a great view of Mount Garibaldi to the north, and there was noone else up there. Shown below is Roanne and myself standing at the edge of a sheer cliff with Garibaldi looming in the background:

Trev and myself on the final slab up to the summit proper:

Roanne and Trev with Garibaldi in the backround:

Roanne and I standing on top, and one of me with Garibaldi (again) in the background: