James Green, The Urban Specialist For Shaw's "The Daily" At The Boulders. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLlvhRXfJLs&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]...
Continue ReadingThe Boulders gets $1.368 million in infrastructure funding from the provincial and federal governments. NEWS RELEASE The province of British Columbia has also partnered with the Government of Canada to ensure smaller communities with populations of less than 100,000 have access to infrastructure funding. An important step...
Continue ReadingThe Boulders team had an unbelievable final few days in the Ceuse/Orpierre area, including tackling some 7a/7b projects, and some more multi-pitch climbing in a newer "secret" climbing area. Our guides, Regis Leroy and Michel Paccalet, were perfect. The gite was amazing, and the food -...
Continue ReadingSunday morning seemed to come very quickly, and I'm pleased to say that, despite being a bit tired from our epic days of travel and koala-watching, we all seem to be making the slow adjustment to the time difference. Justin says he was tired all...
Continue ReadingAu Revior Cham, Hello Ceuse We said goodbye to Chamonix yesterday. We ended our time there with two days of sport climbing on excellent granite, including some high quality multi-pitch sport routes. We were even treated to an amazing meal at "Munchies", thanks to Max!...
Continue ReadingOf course, there were a few stops in between. After picking up our Mercedes Benz diesel Viansos at the airport, we may have circumnavigated the airport at least once in our attempts to find the A6 south...
Continue ReadingWe're on board the RER, heading back to Charles de Gaulle to pick-up stored luggage and mini-vans after a whirlwind 20 hours in Paris. Between 11:30am yesterday (when we arrived at our hotel), and this morning, we: walked under the Eiffel Tower and had a picnic lunch...
Continue ReadingFrance is considered, particularly by the French, as the birthplace of modern climbing. It is also host to the 2009 World Youth Climbing Championships. Really, what better reasons to go? We’ve trained hard, and fundraised even harder, and thanks to the generous support of the local...
Continue ReadingI was wrong about Ashleigh not being able to compete in speed finals today. Because the finals are a "bracket" elimination process, they needed her in so they had enough climbers to make a group of 4. Maegan was eliminated from her first round (when the...
Continue ReadingHere are the results for the speed climbing qualifiers - proof that the 3 minute lesson developed by Team Canada replaces months of training. Justin - 3rd, moves on to finals Liam - 6th, moves on to finals Vernon - 9th, missed finals by one spot Maegan Kelleway -...
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