Matthew and Cassie's Big Climbing Trip.: the forest of fours

mojo - a v4 sleeping position

Some days everything comes together into an amazing day. We met Josh and Sarah from Boulder while they were trying "it's about time" an awesome looking v5 that we also wanted to try. We tried that problem with them for a while with little progress, then moved on to "timeless" together, another v5 that we had looked at, but were not wanting to try on our own since it's tall and the landing isn't very good. With more pads and spotters, we were excited to try it and Matt made short work of it. It was great to find some people who climbed at our level and were fun to climb with.

matt - it's about time

Sarah - it's about time V5

We climbed with Josh and Sarah again a few days later and as a group of four made short work of a number of great v4s. For some reason Squamish seems to be the land of classic v4s. There are so many highly rated v4s here with reasonable landings. We started at "black mark" which Sarah and Josh made quick work of. Matt had figured it out a few days earlier and it took me another days try to send it. Josh then suggested "green tea" which after a little searching, Matt was able to find down in this pit. It was a little strange to have to climb down to get to the problem which we started out on the top of, but it was a really fun bear hugging problem, to a really awkward bad feet top out. All of us were successful after a few tries.

green tea - v4

We then headed to "trad killer" which Matt and I had looked at a few days earlier. After a few tries at the bottom moves, we all made pretty short work of a very fun problem. Matt then onsighted another v4 "pocket problem" which looked amazing. At this point, we were all pretty tired, but Sarah and I decided to give "easy in the easy chair" one more try. This is an amazing heel hook, sloper traverse which I had tried a couple times with little success. We both finished it in just a few tries and all left the forest exhausted and happy from a great day of climbing.

josh - trad killer - v4

easy in the easy chair - v4

sarah - easy in the easy chair

The next day, my parents arrived in Squamish for a visit this week. We hiked to Shannon Falls, and the top of the chief and have been enjoying hanging out with them and showing them our road trip lifestyle. It's been a great few days of making new friends, fun climbing, and being with family. We just have two more days left in Squamish. We have a few more projects we'd like to finish like "it's about time" and matt has been trying a v7 "anubis" that he's close to getting. We will be a little sad to leave but are getting more and more excited every day about heading to Europe in a few weeks!