Dec 12, 2003
Fiona Gallacher on the first ascent of Little Pigger (v3) at the new area named Grover.
Oct 22, 2003
Last week Heather Reynolds-Sagar added her second 2nd v10 to her ticklist by climbing The Gamey Bird.
Jun 13, 2003
Yes it's true there's no spots left for Boulderfest (June 21-22 on Dover Island). Although you can still register to be on the waiting list. The bulge project at the warm-up area saw its first ascent this week and was called Man of action. Then a sit-start to the v2-3 to the right of Une grippe d'homme produced an amazing problem named No Dents (v8). Behind The cave of the futur in the talus area is The sugar shack (v5). It traverses a seam from right to left then busts out a small roof and tops out tothe left. Finally the backside of the one scoop boulder has a fun left to right arete warm-up and also In the deep end (v7), a new problem starting in the hole and climbing out the face using the right arete and some terrible slopers.
Apr 14, 2003
A very small crew made it out on Dover island this past weekend and the weather was surprisingly pleasant. The team managed to put up three new exciting problems. The first one was a project found 10' to the right of the wave and has been named Une gripped d'homme (v7). The other two are highballs to the left of the Orantugan roof section. Although very obvious, the left to right dyke had not been climbed in fear of the holds breaking or simply of the height. Fear factor (v2) has good solid holds and the crux is low on the problem. Just to the right is One way street (v4), climbing past a number of sloping rails with a very bad fall potential. Ben and Rich also managed quick ascents of One scoop.
Mar 20, 2003
Outdoor bouldering has already begun. People have been out to LOC, Terence Bay, Chebucto Head, and Duck Head. All have a few inches of hard packed snow on the ground but boulders are free of snow.
Mar 03, 2003
Pulldown Production's film Eastern Tide received an award from the Vancouver International Film Festival. It was voted Best Canadian Mountain Film. Conditions outside are improving, almost all boulders at LOC are free from snow making the temperatures the only factor. Boulderfest is scheduled this year for June 21-22 on Dover island. Visit the website for more details! Below are photos from Boulderfest.