I got grilled at the border crossing into Canada last week and I didn’t have the right answers to their questions so I had to go inside and talk to a border officer.
“Where are you from?” Um, I’m not sure, my truck says I’m from GA.
“How long will you be in Canada?” I don’t know, a month or two?
“Why do you want to go rock climbing in Squamish for two months?” Because that’s what I do?
They couldn’t understand what I was up to but luckily they let me in!
The weather has been pretty good since I’ve been here. It’s been in the 60’s and hasn’t rained too much. I wasn’t planning to come up here quite so soon but that’s how the journey goes, it’s often unexpected. I’ve been climbing, getting to know the area and some of the locals. I’ve been fortunate to hang out with Tim Clifford who lives in Squamish and works at blurr, one of my amazing sponsors. He’s been educating me on all sorts of things! When I told him I had been climbing for ten years he said, “Oh, so not that long then.” Would you believe he started climbing before I was born?! Just four years ago he established The Singularity, an as yet unrepeated V14 here in Squamish. He is a bit older than the average boulderer but still climbs harder than I do!
View from the Chief
My original plan was to be heading back to Atlanta within the next few weeks to spend time with my family and lock myself in a room to edit my movie! I will probably try to get most of my filming done here in June and hit the long road back East as planned. Alternatively I might try to stick around Squamish for most of the summer. It’s considerably colder here than Hotlanta, plus it’s beautiful and there is an abundance of bouldering! We shall see, I have been itching to actually have a home that doesn’t have four wheels so hopefully I can make that happen soon one way or the other!
Squamish