Happy Halloween!

Samuel at 6 1/2 months

Yak Peak via the route "Yak Ceck", 5.9, 13 pitches, October 4th, 2006

This route has long been on Dave and my tick list. Finally weather and time off coincided for an attempt.

The mountain is located on the north side of the Coquihalla highway just before the toll booth.

Luckily we left the car at 7am as it took us 12 hours to complete the route from car to car using all the available daylight. We were glad to be the only ones on the route as we kicked loose a bunch of pebbles and rocks.

Here are the highlight pics.

The end of the approach from the highway.

A veiw from the start at sunrise.

Starting off on the wrong foot. The actual start was 30m to the right but Dave made great work of the scarier and harder version.

Runout on crap rock and no protection

Ryan starting pitch 2

The splitter crack on pitch 2, beautiful.

Dave on pitch 6

Ryan on pitch 7

Dave on pitch 9

Dave leading pitch 11

The final pitch of technical climbing

Summit.

Dave on rappel

Ryan on rappel

From sunrise to sunset, we were nearing the bottom.

Yak squiggles to the right

The final rappel

Mount Mcguire

Autumn hiking is so wonderful.... gorgeous colors, peaceful trails, and no bugs! On Saturday we enjoyed a hike up Mount Mcguire (near Chilliwack). The views from the top were fantastic.

Babes n' waves

Samuel and I enjoyed our first week of parent-tot swim classes. Ryan had the afternoon off on Thursday so he came and took a few pictures. Sam is happy to have his buddies Liam and Ethan in the same class :-)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Here are a couple of photos that Nana took this past weekend.