The 2015 Squamish Access Society Scrub Brush Awards were held this weekend in Squamish, BC. The Scrub Brush Awards are designed to recognize those people in our community who put the time and effort into putting up new routes or making old routes new again. The event was held at Matches in Squamish, BC.
2015 Winners
Best Moderate Sport Climb
The Glass Slipper. 10d. Quercus Wall, Murrin Park. Emilisa Frirdich, 2012.
Best Hard Trad Single Pitch
Headbangers in Leather, 11+, Topshelf. J Redden, 2013
Best Hard Sport
Queen Bee, 13d, Tenderfoot, Paradise Valley. S. Hughes, 2015
Best Moderate Trad Multipitch
The Butt Face (Aka Butt Lite). 5.9. Squamish Buttress, The Chief. Sonnie Trotter, Ben Moon, Lydia Zamorano. 2010.
Best Retroscrub or Rescrub
Skywalker. 5.8. Shannon Falls. Jeremy Frimer and Friends . 2011
Best Contributing Boulderer
Ryan Davy
Best Moderate Trad Single Pitch
Stein Line 10d, Longhouse, C. Long, 2012
Best Hard Multipitch
The Daily Universe, 12c, Sherriff’s Badge, T McLane, J. Ackermann, 2015
Best New Crag or Area
The Longhouse – C. Long, C. Moorhead, and others
Best Route Name
David Hasselhoffwidth 10 +, Topshelf, J. Redden. 2014
Special Congratulations to our Fellowship of Golden Scrub Brush Inductees, Jim Sinclair, John Howe, and Alan (Hevy Duty) Stevenson.
Here is a special note from Director, Chris Smalls.
SAS would like to thank all our sponsors who contributed to the Golden Scrub Brushes Awards this Year: Climb-On Equipment, Valhalla Pure Outfitters, Grandwall Equipment, Life Tested Art, Blurr, Outdoor Research, Arcteryx, Petzl, Black Diamond, Evolv, Ground Up Climbing Center, and Match Eatery. It was a very successful event with tons of draw prizes and fun had by all.
To join the Squamish Access Society, please visit their website here.
