For all those who use the North Walls of the Squamish Chief, here is a notice from Chris Small of the Squamish Access Society.

The Slhanny. Photo credit: Unknown

Squamish Access Society has been informed by Oceanview Forest Products, the licensee for Cutblock SW144 in the Olesen Creek drainage on south side of Slhanny, that they are going to commence harvesting operations at the end of September. The following is the timing of operations: “Falling and road building will commence at the end of September 2015 . Hauling should commence about October 12, 2015. Harvesting and hauling operations should be completed by the middle of December 2015.
The roads we will be hauling on are :
Shannon FSR from 2.2km
Stawamus-Indian FSR from 1.6km and,
The Mamquam River FSR from 3.8km to the highway.”

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Here is a video of two new problems in Hope, BC by Tyler Thompson, The Squeeze Machine and The Solar Express. The look really good!

Interesting article out of Bloomberg Business by Kyle Chayka regarding the business of climbing gyms.

CEO of Brooklyn Boulders. Photo via Bloomberg Business

When Joe Lemay, a 38-year-old developer in Boston, decided to leave his corporate job to launch a startup, he opted against a permanent office. Instead, Lemay spends his days at Brooklyn Boulders (BKB) Somerville, a rock-climbing gym designed to double as a co-working haven for entrepreneurs. “I’ll be sitting there coding and get up from my chair, go over to a squat rack, and do 10 reps on the rack, then come back to my computer,” Lemay says. “You can always be in the mindset of being active and productive at the same time.”

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Great video featuring the 2015 Canadian Youth team.

In June of 2015 the Canadian youth climbing team chose Montreal and it’s many quality rope and bouldering gyms to prepare for the IFSC Youth World Championships in Arco Italy. Organized by the CEC and Allez Up Climbing Gym the camp proposed mock comp and workshop situations in all three disciplines (bouldering, lead and speed).
This short video recaps the week of hard work put in by the young athletes, and shares the coaches perspectives on the training camp and the future of Canadian competition climbing.

This weeks column by Jeremy Blumel in the Squamish Chief, reflects on the privilege of the climbing lifestyle in comparison to the plight of the Syrian refugees.

It was a day I had been moaning and complaining about the weather, droning predictably like a good Canadian on how we were supposed to get another week of clear, cool, fall-tinged bliss before the rain set in. I had begun training at the gym in earnest, feeling spiteful towards Mother Nature and her quick, emotionless turn around from glorious, sun-baked, splitter blue skies to West Coast water works.

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