In an effort to get back to more posting here, let me begin with some photos from the rock climbers’ access to the Stawamus Chief at Squamish, BC, Canada. This follows on the previous post about my favorite hike to one of the granite monolith’s main three peaks.
On this recent occasion, my friend Bob, who is a devoted hiker of just about anything in the Squamish-Whistler corridor, told me it was quite interesting to walk along the bottom of the cliffs where the rock climbers go. Neither of us are rock-climbers, although I like to bring up that I did do some rappelling and rock-scrambling in my youth.
This is also an area with truly massive boulders where we passed several parties of younger climbers practicing, crash pads at the ready on the ground. But we went inside that belt to approach the bottom of the Grand Wall, and moseyed our way along for a while right at the bottom.
(At the second photo down, where Bob is standing against the cliff, if you look up, up, up you can just make out a couple of climbers – one with some red on.)
Scaling the bottom of the Grand Wall
At the bottom of the Grand Wall
Rock climber prepared for the Chief
Notes on images: These were all shot with my Fuji X-100s. The second is a vertical panorama of course, stitching three photos together with Microsoft’s wonderful (and free) Image Composite Editor.
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