The 2017 Canadian Youth Boulder Nationals just came to a close at The Hive North Shore in North Vancouver, BC. Special thanks to all those people who made this event possible.

Here are the results of the competition. Canadians who did not come in first place are highlighted in bold as the Canadian winners.

Youth A Female

1. Buitendyk, Sophie SCBC
3. Carkner, Cat OCF
4. Zoraj, Jani SCBC
5. Bunko, Julia OCF
6. St-jacques, Aggy FQME
7. Skrok, Jordan OCF
8. Van de panne, Lisa ACA
9. Ying, Yinki OCF

Youth A Male

1. Trudeau, David FQME
2. Haight, Mitchell OCF
3. Richardson, Zach OCF
4. Mclaughlin, Hunter ACA
5. Ellis, Manh OCF
6. Battersby, Finn SCBC
7. Doyle, Aidan SCBC
8. Freitag, Henri ACA

Junior Female

1. Hosoi, Mika SCBC
2. Heinz, Jana SCBC
3. Goldhoff, Julia ACA
4. Vince, Beth OCF
5. Mccarney, Justine OCF
6. Beauchemin, Zoe SCBC
7. Irwin, Remington ACA
8. Rolfe, Kyra OCF
9. Jacquard, Ayla OCF
10. Moss, Elena SCBC

Junior Male

1. Luo, Ivan SCBC
2. Uchida, Lucas OCF
3. Sherkat, Tosh SCBC
4. Murdoch, Kyle SCBC
5. Fricker, Alex ACA
6. Sapra, Rahul OCF
7. Elliott, Jakob OCF
8. Jones, Hayden SCBC
9. Hughes, Ben SCBC

For full results, please see the Sportclimbing BC page.

Training day with Chris Sharma at the BCN featuring Chris Sharma and Alex Megos.

Awesome little flick of Jimmy Webb and his endless projects over the past few months.

Very cool video featuring Jason Kehl in Heuco.

Two great videos from Project Physio in Squamish featuring Wrist and Elbow Training.

Read Macadam makes the first ascent of Revelation (8c) in Oman.

After nearly a whole year with countless near-sends, it became a lesson in patience and letting go of wondering, “is it really that hard, or is my method wrong?” and just being happy to have something very challenging and really good to climb on! I owe a huge thanks to Miguel and Larry for their tireless belays and shouts of encouragement!
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It has been 20 years since the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival had its first opening night at Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver. The first festival featured Canadian climber John Dunn, Joe Josephson, and Peter Croft across three days. Fast forward to present day and the festival now nine days, 32 shows, 98 films, and 32 speakers. Needless to say, the vision of the festival’s creator, Alan Formanek, has come to blossom and then some. With almost a week left in the festival, we thought would be great to check in with Alan and get his perspective of 20 years in the making. Here is what he had to say.

Alan Formanek. Photo courtesy of Alan Formanek ©

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Crib-style video featuring Joe Kinder and his training room. Be ready to endure some cheese…