Alberta Sport

Josh making the FA of Prime Time 5.14c

Ben sending The Hood 5.13b

Shut Down at "the ice box of broken dreams" aka Acephale

The Hood at Acephale

Krissy working Altius 5.12c at Acephale

Altius 5.12c

BC/AB border scenery

The streaked limestone of Alberta

Head wall of The Hood 5.13b

Crux of Altius 5.12c

Altius 5.12c

The upper Acephale wall.

Krissy sending Beat Farmer 5.12a at Heart Creek

Regan on The Hood 5.13b

Thu on Army Ants 5.13c

The bouldery crux of Army Ants

Pepper

Rain belay

Beat Farmer 5.12a

Jade and Ben headed to the climbing

Heart Creek - just down the road from Acephale

Regan sending Hecubus 5.13a - her second 5.13a in a week!

Jade, always psyched to go climbing

Back in Canada

We are finally back in Canada after 6 month of doing "The Circuit" in the US. Much had happened since our last little post.

The big news is that Krissy finally sent her first 5.13a - Sprout, in Maple Canyon, UT. It took about 18 days and 40 tries for the send! (see Krissy's Flashed blog for more!)

After Krissy's project was finished up we headed back to Rifle, CO so I could finish off one last route. After a few more days effort and some beta tweaks I was finally able to send Simply Read 5.13d (hardest 13d on the planet I think!).

We have just spent the last couple days in Squamish, BC doing a little bouldering. The conditions have not been the greatest (either hot or rainy), but it has still been fun to check the area out. We managed to do a few of the classic problems and are now headed to Calgary, AB for some limestone sport climbing!

Mike and Rebecca

Ben sending T-Rex 5.14b - 33 bolts of cave climbing!

The start of T-Rex

Krissy looking cute as ever

Krissy's hand made sun catchers

Shoulder stretching

Another view of T-Rex

Ben sending No Troublems V10. This was the first V10 in Squamish.

The unique granite holds on the very steep No Troublems

Jessa

The start of No Troublems in the dark Grand Wall forest

The view from the climber campground in Squamish

Breakfast at the base of "The Chief"

Ben went caving for a lost water bottle and found a brand new Solution

The world's hottest spotter?

Krissy on the Stinger V6

The scenery during our 24hr drive from Colorado to BC

Must see coffee shop in WA

Ben on Worm World Cave V9

Krissy sending Trad Killer V4

The forest filled with great boulders

Trad Killer V4

Try hard face

Scott providing sun blockage for Stinger Low V8/10?

Vancouver