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View fullsize Access to Echo Beach and The Hermitage will be closed tomorrow-Saturday July 24th until 2pm due to trail work and overhead hazard. Please ensure if going that afternoon you aren’t passing any closure signs. Thanks for your cooperation in allow
View fullsize Update on Grand Wall closure: The rockfall closure for the Grand Wall remains in place, with a couple of changes. After further rockfall near the Black Dyke, the boundary has been expanded on the right side to cover Java Jive and Flex Capacitor. The
View fullsize Climbers on the Apron should be aware there is still a downed tree at the top of pitch 3 of Over the Rainbow. SAS wants to thank Jana Marshall for not only reporting the hazard to us and the community, but also securing the tree to mitigate the hazar
View fullsize Squamish Rampage is back! All proceeds support the Squamish Access Society. Follow @squamish_rampage for more details. This year the competition includes routes!! Get training now, the rampage commences soon. #squamishrampage #squamishaccess #squami
View fullsize Sport Climbers it’s your turn! Saturday July 24th 9am-1pm, there will be a Stewardship Day at Chek. Come help clean up our crags and work on trail improvement. Corporate sponsors @midnightlightning.co and @arcteryxvancouver will have swag and d
View fullsize Slhanay closure: After rockfall earlier this week on the Photophobia buttress, BC parks has temporarily closed some of the climbs on Slhanay. The area affected runs left to right from Dogzilla(5.11b) to The White Feather(5.11d)/The Dean Channel(5.11b
View fullsize After an initial assessment by a geotechnical engineer, the closure boundary at the Grand Wall has been reduced. The right hand extent of the closure has been reduced so The Black Dyke, Java Jive, Coyote and Flex Capacitor are no longer affected. The
View fullsize Grand Wall closure As a result of the rockfall on Sunday BC Parks are temporarily closing the Grand Wall route, some climbs at the base, and the some of the boulders on the slope below the wall. It is likely that the areas affected will change as BC
View fullsize Grand Wall rockfall Today at around 3pm there was a large rock fall near the Split Pillar pitch of the classic Grand Wall (5.11). A very large flake about 20m left of the top of the Split Pillar tumbled down the wall directly through the traverse to
View fullsize Last Saturday June 19th @hiveclimbing and @flashedclimbing hosted a stewardship event at the Grand Wall Boulders with the @squamishaccesssociety. An amazing dedicated crew of volunteers collected an entire pickup truck load worth of garbage, improved
View fullsize Stawamus Chief Day passes: After speaking with BC Parks we can confirm that climbers descending the Chief are exempt from the Day Pass system for the Backside trail. We are trying to get a bit more clarity from Parks on some other areas like the Fuzz
View fullsize CHEK CLOSURE. FLNRO the provincial government agency that manages The Chek Recreation Area has closed off the far southern end of Forgotten Wall including the outhouse due to a reported overhead rockfall hazard. We ask all climbers respect this closu

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