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.