by amandashale | Feb 7, 2013 | Blog
For awhile I was living in the Dentville neighbourhood of Squamish. It was a particularily special location because my backyard was the estuary, literally. One day I glanced out the window and noticed there was a family of ducks taking a rest on the waters edge in my...
by amandashale | Feb 7, 2013 | Blog
Living in Squamish I feel very lucky to have opportunities to climb outside at least once every calendar month. Looking back though May was my climbing season. Conditions were great, and I climbed nearly everyday. Most of my progress was mental allowing me to lead...
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...
