From Vancouver Island we caught a ferry back from Nanaimo back to the mainland (around the 24th June), determined to find sunshine and warm weather. Within 20 minutes of being back on the mainland, headed towards Squamish, it started to rain. So, like any good traveller, we stopped to camp for the night, erecting a tarp over the van and watched the rain showers wash in while we sipped away on red wine, cheese and crackers. Up early the next morning we headed up the three peaks of the Stawamus Chief, a giant rock monolith (second largest piece of granite after the rock of Gibralta) that overlooks Howe Sound. Note here: it’s not recommended to climb the chief when it has been raining or when it is raining, the rocks and the ladders are slippery! Nevertheless,
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