Story by Craig Stowell This is a story about two Dads making a return to climbing and training really hard (for busy Dads that is) this summer, culminating in a long-overdue trip into the backcountry after many years of absence due to kids, family, work, homesteading, life, etc. Devil’s Dome is an amazing Shark Fin [...]

Remember what sports you were playing when you were four years old? For most of us we splashed about in kiddie pools, played tag in our yards, maybe got in a game of soccer or two. (If you call 14 urchins running haphazardly around a field chasing bugs “soccer.”) If you grew up in the [...]

Here in the Kootenay region we are no strangers to huge hydroelectric projects. In fact, Dave Lussier’s multi-pitch tour-de-force “Megawatt” is so named because it’s located beside the Brilliant Dam, just east of Castlegar. What we’ve never seen in this region is any climbing development  on hydroelectric dams. Maybe we should make like the Swiss [...]