Victoria based climber seeks partners
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I used to live in Squamish for about 7 years & spent a lot of vacation time over there before the move.
I don't know whether you've made it over yet, but if not the rock is (usually) magnificent for getting lots of practice making good placements. There's hundreds of routes of all levels of difficulty and good approaches to most of them.
Unfortunately, unless things have changed drastically in the last few years, you should watch out for gear thieves ANYWHERE on the Sea to Sky corridor - visible stuff in the car or unattended gear on the crags can vanish in an instant, and I think homeowner's insurance is the only way to recoup the loss - minus the deductible, of course...
An amazing number of the locals have varying levels of experience climbing and are usually pleasant and familiar with the area. It's well worth the effort to get to know some of them.
I'm not much of a computer wiz, but if you mean where am I living these days. it seems as though I.m living in Courtenay at the moment..
I still climb (very rarely), largely because those of a like ilk are pretty scarce anywhere these days, and particularly hard to find up here - especially without a vehicle.
Were you at Daryl's wedding or reception by any chance?
Feel free to stay in touch if there's any info about Daryl I can give you (as long as it happens to be the less than outrageous stuff that none of us would want spread about ourselves when we croak).
Catch you later.
I'm in Cumberland. funny you ask about a wedding. When I was around 8 yrs I went to a wedding and Daryl was there, but I'm pretty sure it was my aunt Debra's wedding . Incidentally I think Daryl had a large cast on 1 of his legs. this was in the early eighties.
I've put up many of the little sport routes at comox lake, new routes on Colonel foster and in June finished a new line up the Eldred valley in Powell river. Going to Horne lake with my brother today to set a sport route. rap bolting on limestone.
climberjohn@shaw.ca
Hi everyone, I'm new to Victoria and I'm looking for people to climb at horne lake with. I'm a competent sport climber, with plenty of experience on steep routes. I don't know too many climbers yet, and would love to get to know people so I can check out different areas on the island. If anyone wants to go to Horne lake or any other climbing area please let me know. I climb at crag X climbing gym (indoors is so mediocre compared to real rock).