This is Josh's climbing blog/ resume. Hope you enjoy.
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Valley of the Birds 01/21/06
This is (L)Yellow Bird WI 4 30m and Snowbird M6+ 40m. We climbed the left, right and middle and I was close to trying Snowbird but felt burned out from climbing ice and fiddling around on the bottom of Snowbird that I decided it would be best tried another day. Murry lead which was a nice change and gave me the opertunity to try some stuff that wouldn't have on lead. Gained some more confidence on ice, I think that a WI 4 lead is in my near futere. This was my 3rd waterfall I'd climbed, I felt good and protection placement would be ok on lead I thought. It was a great day and the area is full of ice climbs, rock climbs and mixed climbs. It is a mecca!! I will be back.
I have been climbing since 1992/93 or so. I starting out on outdoor rock then into the gym and started to compete on the youth team. I climbed in Squamish,BC and in the Coast Mountains growing up. At 16, I got my first "big" summit, Mt.Wedge 9500' via The North Arete. I now live in Calgary, AB and have been climbing in the Rockies ever since 2004. In it's self a long time dream come true. I feel the most freedom when I'm climbing and it makes all the hard work worth it. Never stop! SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT !!!! LEAVE NO TRACE!!! TAKE ONLY PICTURES, LEAVE ONLY FOOT PRINTS. I hope you enjoy my story... This is my climbing Log.