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Squamish Climbing… Failing Not so Gracefully on Granite

Squamish Climbing. Where to begin with how it feels to take one’s ego, throw it in the dirt, and trample it with golf cleats for 213 days straight? If you want to be a bonafide alpine climber, you need to be rock solid on big granite walls. So many of the world’s greatest alpine climbing…

July 20, 2017 in Adventure & Travel, Climbing.

Gmoser Route, Mt. Louis, (16 pitches, 5.9)

Before I ever got into climbing, Mt. Louis was always one of the top mountains I wanted to someday stand on the summit of. It is a pretty famous mountain in both climbing and non-climbing circles due partially to its prominence above the valley floor, and also due to the fact that all routes require…

July 17, 2017 in Adventure & Travel, Climbing.

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