Dahna: Even though the official Squamish climbing season had not yet begun, and most sensible people were still playing on the snow, Jono and I could not ignore that wondrous piece of Granite any longer. I just had a battle with Microsoft Word, which kept trying to make Squamish in to squeamish. We caught a Greyhound bus out to the township of Squamish and stayed in what used to be a hostel aimed at climbers, which even had its own indoor bouldering cave. The hostel has changed owners, rooms have been painted pretty colours, the bouldering cave is now a storage shed, the hostel is now an “inn” and double rooms are now about $80. Apparently it now caters to a lot of people working at Whistler, which is only about an hour down the road,
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