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But, really it was almost all hiking in the woods.
Scubajim had offered to take me/go with me climbing in the Gatineaus. I figured since he's been out there climbing before, it would be great to have a guide who knows his way around. He figured that he hasn't been to Ron & Jon cliffs before, so it would be great to try somewhere new. And, that they were less-climbed, so would be less crowded and there wouldn't be other people around.
So, we did several hours of tromping around on the escarpment, including some solid 4.x and 5.0 to 5.1 (well, maybe 5.2 -- my judgement just isn't good at the low end) scrambling, a bit of rope-setting, a bit of rappeling. And, I started a climb but came nowhere near to finish it, due to a nasty overhang a short way up.
By the time we'd bailed and gotten back to the car, Jim was pretty wiped. So, after Pho I dropped at home. Then I went off to MEC, where I bought me a much better pack -- hauling 60m of rope around quickly demonstrated that my day pack was crap. (Actually, I knew it was crap, it demonstrated that it was unacceptable crap.)
After MEC, I went on to Coyote where I got in just over an hour of bouldering. And, I got the phone number of another climber from there interested in going up to the gatineau. (And, she's hot, too. Might be dating Dustin, that isn't clear. But hot.)
Lesson: next time we'll go to a place that is well-travelled with clear (and probably short) approaches and/or somewhere that Jim has actually climbed before and knows how to find.
Scubajim had offered to take me/go with me climbing in the Gatineaus. I figured since he's been out there climbing before, it would be great to have a guide who knows his way around. He figured that he hasn't been to Ron & Jon cliffs before, so it would be great to try somewhere new. And, that they were less-climbed, so would be less crowded and there wouldn't be other people around.
So, we did several hours of tromping around on the escarpment, including some solid 4.x and 5.0 to 5.1 (well, maybe 5.2 -- my judgement just isn't good at the low end) scrambling, a bit of rope-setting, a bit of rappeling. And, I started a climb but came nowhere near to finish it, due to a nasty overhang a short way up.
By the time we'd bailed and gotten back to the car, Jim was pretty wiped. So, after Pho I dropped at home. Then I went off to MEC, where I bought me a much better pack -- hauling 60m of rope around quickly demonstrated that my day pack was crap. (Actually, I knew it was crap, it demonstrated that it was unacceptable crap.)
After MEC, I went on to Coyote where I got in just over an hour of bouldering. And, I got the phone number of another climber from there interested in going up to the gatineau. (And, she's hot, too. Might be dating Dustin, that isn't clear. But hot.)
Lesson: next time we'll go to a place that is well-travelled with clear (and probably short) approaches and/or somewhere that Jim has actually climbed before and knows how to find.
