The North Face athletes Emily Harrington and Alex Honnold take The Progressor Collection for a walk up the Incredible Hulk for a free ascent of “Solar Flare” (5.12d) in the high Sierra of California.

Bouldering in Siberia with Vadim Timonov.

Inspiring film trailer featuring Paul Robinson, Jimmy Webb, Daniel Woods, Chris Sharma and Niky Ceria.

In this video, La Sportiva ambassador James Pearson grab his ascent to the iconic route The Quarryman, established by the British climbing legend Johnny Dawes in the 80’s.

On Tuesday Jan. 17th, 2017, Squamish City Council decided to move forward with lease negotiations for the proposal set forth by Kristall Turm at the Adventure Centre Parking lot. The decision was heavily debated in chambers before a final five to one decision was made to go forward with the project, with only one City Councillor, Susan Chapelle, rejecting the proposal. Squamish Climbing Magazine will be publishing some of the outcomes of this decision at a later date that will provide a broader context for this decision and the history behind a number of variables surrounding this issue.

For those of you who would like more information, here is a excerpt from the Squamish Chief this week on the issue.

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Fantastic craftmanship from Tara Kerzhner featuring route developer, Tom Smartt re-bolting Bushido 5.13A in The Fins, Idaho.

Last week the Squamish Access Society had it’s Annual General Meeting and published a summary of the good work that has happened behind the scenes in 2016.

In a letter to the climbing community, the president of Chris Small calls for the climbing community to come together as access issues are on the rise. Below is his letter to the community. For the full report, please click here.

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Last weekend, Victoria’s newest gym, Boulderhouse, played host to climbing athletes from across the province (and a few from Alberta) in their first SCBC Bouldering competition at the new venue. With a lot of cheering from the crowd and the every witty Kaleb Thomas leading them through the competition, the event was certainly not to be missed. Here are the results from the open category.

Andrew Funk and Kaleb Thomas. Photo courtesy of Charlie Chen ©.

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Nice little flick featuring Magnus Midtbo And Alex Honnold in Norway.

Despite only 31 of 151 respondents supporting the project and 114 of 151 not supporting the location of this project, the District’s Chief Administrative Officer recommended that the District move forward on this development. Potentially losing a public asset for the next five years (and perhaps ten), this seems extremely short sighted by the District, given that this parking lot serves as overflow to the Smoke Bluffs Parking Lot and could potentially be the answer to the rising parking crisis at all major outdoor hotspots in the Sea to Sky Corridor.

Here is the report in detail. For those who love pictures, please view below.

The vote to finalize the lease agreement for this proposal will take place on Tuesday, January 17th, 2017. Squamish Climbing Magazine urges everyone to write the Squamish City councillors immediately and stand up for use of these public lands. Please write the City council @ council@squamish.ca

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