by amandashale | Feb 6, 2013 | Blog
During the middle of last winter a job opportunity arose in a much sunnier and drier climate, in northern Saskatchewan. Although it meant six weeks without climbing, greeness, and proper healthy food it also meant a substantial camera upgrade which I was long overdue...
by amandashale | Feb 6, 2013 | Blog
Having grown up on Vancouver Island I was used to the long, wet, dark winter when I moved to Squamish. What I wasn’t used to was most of my friends leaving town when summer ended in search of dry locations for climbing. Luckily the friends that did stay also...
by amandashale | Feb 6, 2013 | Blog
I had missed celebrating New Year’s with friends at the Elfin Lake hut due to work only to find myself there less than two weeks later. Three of us snowshoed into Garibaldi provincial park where we spent two nights at the Elfin Lake hut. With heat and cooking...
by amandashale | Feb 6, 2013 | Blog
Living in Squamish I often pass time in the estuary during the wet season. With every stroll I bring my camera; sometimes we stalk birds, or bears while other times I like to pearch up in a tree to take it all in. One day I found myself up in a tree during a slack...
by amandashale | Feb 6, 2013 | Blog
Garibaldi Mountain as seen from Smoke Bluffs summit, Squamish BC “2011 has come to a end and what better way to spend the last few hours of daylight than out hiking. I borrowed Dex from Climb On and we wandered our way through Smoke Bluffs to the summit. Howe...