Yippeeeeeeeeeeee. I went climbing again. Life is good. And, due to my being underemployed, it was mid-week, which gave me an extra sense of satisfaction, and it meant that there were not so many people around. I found a climbing partner in the form of a fellow under employed colleague, going by the name of Tim. He is a local (lives only a few blocks away from us) with a car and knows Squamish like his back yard. We did a nice little multi-pitch climb on the Apron of the Chief. The Apron is the slabbier part of the chief and has a lot of classic moderately graded multi-pitches (around 5.7-5.10 range). We did a nice 7 pitch route called Banana Peel. It was awesome, nice mix of flakes and cracks and run out slab
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