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The primary purposes of these pages are to:
- Serve as a basic introduction to Squeamish area
climbing
- Provide current information on climber related issues
around Squamish
- Serve as a repository for information that may not be
included in standard references - e.g. trip reports, history, photos,
extended beta, etc.
- Document new route activity (routes not covered by
current guidebooks)
Unfortunately, things are far from complete. Between
work commitments, and actually going climbing, there isn't enough time in
the day to keep everything up-to-date.
Also, this isn't a guidebook, although some sections may
look like just that. Doing all the scanning, graphics manipulation,
documentation etc. to produce a real online guidebook is beyond our
willingness to invest time, and the existing print guidebooks are already
very good. However, one of our intentions is to eventually have a more or
less complete list of the climbs in the area, cross linked to information
about each climb that is not in current guidebooks, such as topos, bolt
status and history. The current definitive area guidebooks are both by
Kevin McLane: The Rock climbers Guide to Squamish and Squamish
New Climbs. These books give more information than will (probably)
ever be available here. I've often used these, and past guide books, for
reference material (the names of climbs, and the FA information) but the
descriptions of climbs are all our own.
Secondly, we're not what you could call great
climbers, so our descriptions of many of the harder climbs will be from
the ground only. Of course, contributions are more than welcome. This also
raises the question of multiple grading on routes - the line of
University Wall for instance is pretty inspiring, but there's no way we
could hope to free-climb it, so we will be maintaining information on aid
(clean of course) ratings for climbs like this.
Lastly, while this page currently only covers climbing
in the Squamish area, it would be great if it could eventually be expanded
to cover the full gamut of climbing available in South-Western B.C. If
anybody has anything to contribute towards that end (say, a trip report on
climbing Slesse, that new climb in the Coquihalla canyon, or whatever)
then by all means submit them and I'll add it.
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