Taking advantage of the circumstances could not miss a visit to every
rule to the island of Vancouver, with an area of 450km long, like a
great mountain range, it gives to have plenty of places to climb, we
knew the existence of about 100 with more than 2000 routes of all colors
and shapes, but for sure there is no talk of ice and runners, not just
the island you a lifetime.

Besides hiking, Vancouver Island is perfect for viewing whales and other
animals in the latest Pacific coast before arriving in Asia, lost in
the woods and beach, eat seafood, etc, really worth a trip but is not
scalable.

We moved into our general tonic (car hire) and alternating sleeping car
and shop at the home of relatives of a buddy from Vancouver who lived in
a village on the Island (Port Alberni).

An entire post deserves camping in Canada. We met a couple who told us it was very safe "plant store" in Canada, only 2 or 3 people die annually from attacks by wild animals, so if they levaban a big game rifle, pistols and various tranquilizers devices to scare off bears and cougars, in addition, when plants have always tends to find a tree to leave food hanging from a rope so that (exact words) "when a bear comes to food does not reach and go" I I wondered what if it is going?, in order that when plants shop, always (to me at least) had a little resentment in case, even sleep and wake up on the shores of the Pacific, in a huge forest or rocky background is a unique experience, once we acknowledge that fear.

Campgrounds also exist as these are areas of service without pay, free and perfectly manicured, with bathrooms, kitchen and individual plots where you can leave your car or auto-trailer and of course up the tent, all have electricity, clean restrooms, hot water and most radio-emergency number, which are closer to towns and cities tend to have some company but in others you can be alone for days and miles, by a rocky area near the whole day we were driving not come across a single car or person, acojonante sensation.

Here distances are quite large and is not the same to move to Spain or Europe, imagine a climbing trip where pretendáis see everything that is Valencia, Catalonia and Aragon in a month and a half, "not complicated? they think of the 450km-long Vancouver Island is, after looking at a map and compare the distances to the rock for example, or the Yukon, it would take many months and years to scale a selection of the best climbing routes and sites in British Columbia, Canada we are talking about a whole might not work, live, rent and otherwise engage in a lifetime, it really is a very large area and is nearly full of walls and mountains.

So on Vancouver Island we are dedicated to go to Port Alberni, Nanaimo and Tofino in the park Paficic Rim.

About Nanaimo are many areas for example is a small school Westwoods basalt with some long routes between 5.10 and 5.12 well equipped and where you can camp on a site without paying those movie.

Nanaimo Also near Mount Benson is an area with good potential and few roads, easy and difficult routes, from 5.6 to 5.12 also in Basalt with a simple approximation (30 minutes) and a spectacular view, an area full sport routes but where you can put pots.

On the outskirts of Nanaimo there are numerous sites to boulder with very different proposals (not like the block so I can give a few more details.)

On the way to Port Alberni and right side of the road we found another block area called Sutton, but this time on granite.

But if you looking one way, in an idyllic setting, far from everything (many miles from the nearest road and many hours drive from any inhabited place) on excellent rock with moderate difficulties 5.10 and 11 long "forever" is your path There are some more and a wall film to open what pleases, wapiti valley is a place in the middle of nowhere where you will surely not see not a soul, ambientazo guaranteed and impressive, long very nice, all extreme quality, some very good lines and especially the sense of scale is out of reach of the planet, one pass through the rock, so clean the route and the environment.

It even allows you to upload to Colonel Foster, 1000m at its eastern side, with long, very sustained and even air the whole section 100 or 200 meters (can not remember the sketch) low level where people are made in the assembly, the mountain and the environment: a Pyrenean itself, we drooled.

Other areas where there are routes of 500m, 600m or 400m are good Eldred valley and many more, they told us it was impossible to scale or 10% of what was in the island, in order to freak out and die of envy too.

Where there are more places for sport climbing is to Victoria, where we were not, Vancouver Island is incredible it’s worth a trip just to devote to know, we were less than 5 days and the truth that we are left with very long teeth and really looking forward to more, I repeat, it is worth doing a trip just to visit the island.