For the past nine years, The Squamish Mountain Festival has been a staple of the Squamish summer experience. Filled with speakers, clinics, and films, the festival continues to offer a place for climbers to gather and celebrate.

This year, the festival has gone through some substantial changes, including a change to the name and venue of the festival. When these changes were initially discovered, there was some concern about the changes on social media prior to the launch of the event website. Squamish Climbing Magazine thought that it would be best to go right to the source to find out about some of the decision making behind these changes. Justin Sweeny, the event manager for the Arc’teryx Climbing Academy, was kind enough to answer our questions and here is what he had to say.

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Here is a press release from Joseph Wong, president of the Vancouver Rock Climbers Group and Climb and Conquer Project.

Hello our dear climbing family! Let’s use our climbing power and commodarie to support the Nepal earthquake relief!

*Canadian govt. will match donations till May 25. Hive will give discounted admission $10 (vs. $18.50) to all non-Hive members! *If you don’t want to compete, you are welcome to bring a donation receipt to get the discounted admission.

What’s Happening?

Climbing Competition May 15 Friday

– 7pm Competition starts
*Make sure you come earlier like 6pm to complete your sign in, gym orientation and fall assessment and warm up.
– 9pm Announce Results and Super Final for Summiters Category.

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A four part series from La Sportiva featuring four different professional athletes and their take on climbing.

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Nothing like reading your local columnist Jeremy Blumel to start Sunday morning right. As a father, a kindergarten teacher, and a dedicated climber, Jeremy juggles it all while giving us the good every two weeks. Here is his latest from last week.

Jeremy on the big show. Photo courtesy of Jamie Finlayson.

Late in the morning of Sunday, April 19, an enormous piece of the Stawamus Chief fell off and crashed into the forest below. A column of dust shot into the air and moved downwind through Valleycliffe.

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The last time I was on Ton Sai beach was in 1999. I had first arrived on Railay and quickly moved to Ton Sai to be closer to the climbing. There were a total of 12 climbers there and only two bungalows were open. The forest was still in tact and you had to walk to the end of the beach to catch a boat to Au Nang. Looks like things have changed a lot but the feeling captured was just the same. This video may be a little old but worth the watch. Thanks to Conrad McFarlane for bringing it to our attention.