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Summer highlight, the Armchair Traverse ✅

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Summer dump , mostly FRIENDS and climbing 🫶🏻😎

Ready to jump into Fall season, roadtrip and travels 🚐✈️

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There isn't anywhere else I'd rather be for spring and summer.

#squamish #adventure #highline #ski #rave

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...Continued from previous post.

Saturday was nearly a writeoff. Rain, dense fog, and wind kept us pent up in our tent all day long. Despite being exceptionally prepared with rigging gear, we were severely underprepared with entertainment. Morale fell as the hours ticked past - this was supposed to be our day to session the highline before derigging the next day. At 19:00, a break in the clouds prompted a mad dash to the summit of Dionne. We arrived to receding clouds, golden hour, and a frightening amount of wind. After some psyching up, Christian had the balls to be the first one on, and, after some screaming, claimed it wasn’t actually that bad. The breeze was consistent and was holding the line steady; the tension was right; the atmosphere was incredible. We all sessioned as the sun fell and the light changed, battling nerves, emotions, and freezing toes. As night fell we scrambled back down to camp in the light of our headlamps, elated.

Our last day felt like a bonus. An early start meant we could all have another session. Benham, then Cael, then I sent the line. Derig was flawless and done in half an hour, and James and I downclimbed Tantalus one last time. We packed up and began our trip back, once again loaded with heavy bags. Firm snow made for quick travel back to the hut, where the beers we had stashed awaited us while we spread out our gear to dry on the helipad.

I'm still reflecting on this trip, but something I'm so grateful for is having such competent friends to go do these adventures with. Our team was great - outside of the weather, this rig could not have gone better - but it could have just as easily have been a number of other dear friends that could've made this happen. We assembled not by picking and choosing people, but simply because these were the people immediately beside me at a barbecue when I was looking to make plans. Love you all, you know who you are.

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A few weeks ago @jamesacampbell96 @caeltruco @christiancellinger @explore_learn_slack and I rigged a 240m highline between Tantalus and Dionne peaks. We called it “The Gift”. A gift of the fruits of our labour and planning. A gift of conditions. A marriage gift for myself, and a gift for James who is expecting a child. The name reflects how appreciative we are to be able to be present for these vivid experiences in the mountains, and all the things happening lately to be thankful of in our little community. We all felt that this line was one of the all time best experiences in our highline careers, and probably the most rad alpine highline in southwest BC.

We flew into the range after work on the 16th, directly into a rare Squamish lighting storm. Loaded with nearly 300lbs of gear, we set off up the Dionne glacier. The ridge spread the storm to either side of us, and soon we were climbing the last stretch of ridge onto Dionne’s SE shoulder. We made camp and settled in just before the storm arrived in earnest. Earplugs and an “emotional support lightning rod” - a hiking pole standing watch on the rocky mound above our camp - helped ease the nerves as the lag between flash and thunder dwindled to nothing.

We woke on Friday to the peaks peering out of dense, wind blown clouds. After bolting an anchor on Dionne, James and I left the rest of the team and climbed Tantalus, blindly positioning the anchor. In equal fashion, Cael flew the drone into the clouds; despite only occasionally glimpsing the far side, we soon had the line rigged and could hear Benham singing his way across the line for the first time. James and I opted to downclimb back to camp with eyes on climbing the Witches Tooth, a skinny spire between the two peaks, on the way. This side quest turned into a mini epic of a previously unclimbed line, with James running out of gear and placing a bolt 40’ runout before the final pitch. All the while glimpsing our friends through the fog sessioning the highline above our heads, trading encouragement. We made it back to camp and up Dionne in time to each have a session, mentally fried from being in no fall terrain the entire day.

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Lately.

Friends, ferries, hikes, runs, bike rides, Sunshine Coast, Vancouver Island, Skaha, Squamish and Rowdy Socks 🤘🔥🧡

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Armchair Traverse recap 🎥

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Spring things 🐟🌿⛷️🐋

A busy busy season. Favourites moments included visiting Hornby & Denman for herring work, a few ski trips, watching the forest turn green again, picking up Erik from school, first outdoor climbs of the year, getting my garden started, running with friends in qathet, and a family trip to Ucluelet 🥰

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~ mes prochaines vacances sont en novembre aka vivre dans le déni 😌

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Tricouni Peak via North Ridge 🏔️🤟🏻 1/2

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This one is going straight to the memory book! Tricouni Peak via North Ridge with some crazy humans, what a blast 💥🏔️ #mountainlife #mountaineering #climbinglife #hoodratshit

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Tag ton ami le plus dramatique👀.
Et dit nous qui tu es en commentaire!

N'oublie pas de prendre ton billet en bio! Le temps passe vite!

@studiohoratio pour les merveilleuses photos

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