Getting there is half the fun: October 2006

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Boring Week

There's not much going on with me this week that's interesting. Got a midterm tonight, plus loads of assignments and also a project due on Thursday...FUN! Looking forward to the weekend though, going to Skaha-haha with the VOC!

Last weekend was the MEC gear swap, and it was even better than last year. Matt and I showed up at 5pm on Saturday and were joined by Sandra, Dan, Ben, Tristan and Marko at abour 25th in line. Christian was first in line but he showed up at 3:30! It was a fun filled night of various antics, and surprisingly we managed to get a few hours of sleep this year too! I didn't get all that I wanted, but instead I got some other goodies I needed! I spent $180 and got over $500 woth of gear! Similar deals were had be all, everyone came away with something good! Here's some of the stuff I got...

MSR Denali Snowshoes ($160, $25)

MEC Brio 60L Backpack ($99, $40)

MEC Hybrid -20C down/synthetic sleeping bag ($150, $50)

Thermarest Prolite 4 ($116, $20)

And a thermos for $5 and a water filter for $20, but I think it's broken, oh well.

I wouldn't have thought my name was so popular, but I guess 82 people is not that many.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are:
82
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

Posted by Evan at 3:14 PM

Thursday, October 19, 2006

The Happenings of Late....

So school is back in full swing, which normally means this page is kept up to date with all the fun things that happen. But that has not been the case for the past 6 months! To start what is to be a long recap of the past few months I'll post some pictures now because I'd rather do that than start my project report that is due in 2 days!

Going back in time to last weekend we arrive in Squamish. 8 of us drove up early Saturday for a day of climbing before the rain was due. We were knocking off the climbs at 'neat and cool' when Krystil and Nick rocked up to teach us all a lesson or two about how climbing's done. Then shortly after at the top of a climb messing with the anchor a familiar face pops over the top of an adjacent climb - Anja from Mountain Lake (story to follow). Now there were a whopping 15 of us! After a few climbs the original 8 of us headed over to Penny Lane. All our climbs of choice were taken so Piotr decided to try to climb a "5.6, 1 star, relavively unclimbed" climb called "Satan's Slit." These all should have rang some alarm saying not to climb it but we (he) tried anyway. An easy start led to me standing at the bottom for well over half hour with Piotr out of sight and curses emanating from somewhere above. After an eternity I hear "lower me slowly, very slowly" from Piotr, who decided to bail off of one moderately placed cam! With Piotr safely on the ground it was time for inspection: his pants were all covered in blood from his knees due to a "body jam" technique he made up trying to squeeze up the 1.5 foot wide crack! The afternoon was spent hiking up the back and rappelling from 2 ropes through the trees into the nasty crack. I had a hard time just rappelling through the crack, getting a little jammed at times. It definitely would have not been easy to climb! Note to climbers: this climb is not recommended!

Sunday was spend with my Mom and Greta. We drove down to Mt. Baker to so for a hike through the alpine. Unfortunately it turned out really rainy, but we hiked around for a few hours anyway. The colours of the alpine shrubbery were really beautiful, everything is changing colour now in preparation for winter. The blueberry bushes were especially pretty with their bright red colour!

Red Blueberry Bushes: