'Twas a Great Day

So last week Adam Herman came to Squamish for a little visit. It was awesome. We went to BP and caught the Canuck's game (which we won) and then went back to our buddy Dan Dunkley's house for an amazing evening of swapping manly stories and all around slumber party festivities. We slept well and arose to eat a phenomenal breakfast of lime and black pepper hashbrowns, pancakes with an apple cinnamon topping and orange juice. Needless to say it went down very easily. So after cleaning up, the sun miraculously came out for the first and last time all week and dried out the Squamish granite so that we could have a day full of fun and excitement. We took Adam rock climbing and rappelling in the smoke bluffs and purely enjoyed the time spent with eachother. Here is the pictoral story of our day of climbing:

Here I am getting the preliminaries out of my system... I was a little nervous this being my first time taking anybody rock climbing without any supervision but I was confident in my knowledge and practise and guess what we were the safest climbers out there :)

Here's a terribly backlit... I mean beautiful silhouette shot of Adam rappelling down "burger's and fries".

Dan Dejong proving why he's the King of rope management... as he sports those sexy, stylish $4.00 sunglasses.

But I thought Adam didn't know how to rappel? Oh wait, he does now! Here Adam demonstrates his proficiency with a pressock as he calmly pauses his rappel to pose for this smashing picture.

Dan climbing a crack with that beautiful cyanotype style photograph.

Adam showing off his belay skills... which pale compared to his nunchuck skills... and computer hacking skills... no wonder he has a girlfriend!

Ahhh, the beauty of climbing squamish! (sephia style)

And again.

Herman showing us what it's all about...

Ohhh the vanity :)

Apparently Squamish granite turns to Cali sandstone with the sephia filter... interesting.

Adam wanted me to caption this picture, "hey mom, look what I can do!" so there you go pal.

Here is a an excellent shot of Adam's terrible flake climbing technique. C'mon buddy, straighten those arms and put the strain on the skeletal system! You can flex your huge arms later :)

Here's Dan "laying a log and meaning it!" (his words not mine) It's hard for a giant to hold good form on the flake so we won't hold it against him.

This is me getting "amped" as it were :)

Yay for climbing!

Here are two pals standing side by side. One is Dan and one is Adam. Cool eh?

You just always have to have the camera with you cause when you're climbing, beauty is everywhere around you.

So that ended our fun day of climbing in the week's alottment of sunshine. What a blessing friends are. I'm quite excited to see you all again come Christmas.