After 3.5 weeks of perfect climbing in squamish it's time to leave. I could spend a great time here and met many good people. The last few days there were a bit too eventful for my life. After I climbed freeway I passed out and hit the ground with my head (I wont post a picture here :). Then someone crashed my car. And before the bad weather came to squamish I took my first whipper on a nut. Harry gave my a good catch but I twisted my ankle on the slab underneath me. The last two days were hard to walk but I'll be back on track soon.
Harry, the austrian guy decided to join me on my way to the rocky mountains, so we thought we should have a special meal on our last evening in squamish.
The next pictures will show you our expedition...

And not to forget, on the picture above you can see the normal life at the cooking shelter, thank you squamish!



  

Our way started with the access to a dangerous area in squamish. Locals told us that you'll never see a cougar, but they'll watch you.

Harry caught his first fish in his life by hand. That's a real man! 

Because of my hurt ankle the salmons were faster than me. So I did the part with the swiss army knife.

That's the beautiful fish we caught. I never saw something like this before. The small creek was full with salmons. It was also hard to see how the fight to swim up the cascades.

The first salmon we caught didn't seem very strong and healthy so we let him go. But it was a nice exemplar for a picture.

5.9 runout traverse on Cruel Shoes.

Myself in one of the best pitch i've ever climbed. Split Pillar on the grand wall.

Never thought that bolt ladders could be that fun.

With Dan on the top of the chief. We just climbed Cruel Shoes, The Grand Wall and The Upper Black Dyke. The next day we climbed the Grand Wall by night and full moon. We climbed it all with simul climbing and it took us only 3 hours and twenty minutes for 10 pitches.

I'm getting used to the laybacking in squamish. Me on the first corner pitch of Freeway. 

In the exposed 11a traverse above the overhang.

Top of Freeway, uuuhhh yeahhh!!!

We have been four days on the island over this weekend. On the westcoast where the pacific ocean hits the shore the climate is much different. It was foggy, rainy and not too warm. Despite these conditions I could surf my first wave in Tofino. The picture is taken from the wild pacific trail in ucluelet.

Mussels everywhere!

Shoes on lines. Nr. 2

Harbor in Tofino

Long Beach, Tofino

Long Beach, tons of driftwood.

This is my first own car, ihaaaaa. I met a swiss guy who wanted to sell the car. So the deal happened.

Would that be possible in Switzerland?

How tall? 76 metres! On the right you see my new travel buddy "Kalle, die Krebszange".

Toni in sunset strip. This long fingercrack is in the third pitch. After I took the picture of this beauty the route is now definitely on my to-do list.

I had the chance to shoot Colin Moorhead on a new combination of The Gauntlet and The Facade. These routes are located on the chief in squamish.

My rigging for the ascend on static ropes. Colin in the Cruxpitch, an overhanging dihedral.

Preparing for battle

These pictures are dedicated to cyrill. I'm in squamish now. On the left one after a serious fight with awkward fist jams. Right, my current home.