Limestone Astronauts

Today, Jeff and I shot up to Yamnuska to try our luck on the Bowl route. The day started typically enough, coffee at the summit cafe, turning around because I forgot my sneakers and am not man enough to walk up in my flip flops, hiking up the trail in the heat of the late morning with shirts off and anticipating the climbing ahead.
The Bowl is a old school classic that blasts a stellar line through some roofs and corners near the middle/east part of the cliff. As usual, we had a good time hooting and hollering up the burly moves and taking in the exposure and setting. Its a great climb that delivered good climbing on decent stone. At one point you even get to clip an old 2x4 that was placed on the first ascent, moldy and rotten as it is!Good times!

Its Neither

Its been a long time since my last posting. Its probably because I have been doing a lot of short climbs at the sport areas in the evenings when the weather is good. Michelle and I had a good day out on a nice long easy route on Cascade mountain on Saturday as well as John Peachell and I had a nice time on the classic multi pitch "Gooseberry" in Banff townsite the day before. The weather around here hasn't beeen to great for climbing so mostly we have been sticking to things where retreat is easy and strighforward, like Wednesday when Jay Billing and I shot up to yam to climb "Rejection of the faith" but were turned around halfway on account of an approaching storm. Jay and I joked around after because we have been out three times together and have'nt got up a single thing, we still always have a good time though.The only other thing lately was the flooding basement at work which we managed to pump out in a few days.