“If you climb offwidths often enough, one of these days you’re bound to get your knee stuck and shit your pants. It’s an odds thing.”

Rik and I visited Waterworld for the first time a few weekends ago on Vince’s recommendation. He was right, this place is unlike any other climbing destination in the Kootenays. The rap-in approach is an adventure in itself, one minute you’re walking through the woods and then bam – you’re a hundred meters above Lake [...]

Onion Creek is reported to have a few of the best cracks in the Kootenays. Here’s what Keith Robbins says in his short guide to the Onion Creek area: Onion Creek is mostly a granite crack climbing area, although some bolts are starting to go in. There is a bit of climbing at most grades. [...]

Another good weekend in Arrow Lakes, this time at the newly named Waterfall Walls. Yes, we had rain, and some god-awful  ascending (how do you do this s&*# ?), but the results were worth it: a new trail an exciting via ferrata progression on Aaron and JT’s big roof route posion ivy for Vince a [...]

It never ceases to amaze me that I live in a place where I can drive from my home and be at the base of crag in few minutes, only to step off a paved road, walk 20 meters to a rock face and embark on a ground up first accent of a naturally clean [...]