Mark on his way down after a valiant effort...

Pechie on lead.

Mark on his was back down...

Showing Gravity who is the boss....

5.10a @ Nanaimo River

Here's Sharka on Turbulence. I would have loved a photo of him lower down pulling the crux, but he was climbing sans stick clip and needed all the spotters he could get.

Mike on Hight Tide, while Sharka belays.

Here I am on Lower Momentum. The crux is at the top, where you see me.

Mike on Butterscotch Puddin' the best trad route on the lower deck.

Here I am checking out the view of the Nanimo River from the top of the Upper Deck.

Kathryn cranking on the last moves of Psycho Babble 5.9 trad.

Can't remember the name, but here's Kathryn seconding up a nice 5.8 sport.

Ryan Kurytnik on New Shoes, 5.11b/c, taken by Chris Gill, the fellow who put up the route. A sweet line with plenty of good rests but thin in places and sharp pointy holds. Also some brittle rock near the top.

Sure, .10a...anyway, that's what they told us at Romper Room in Nanaimo. When i seconded Peter after his great onsight lead, it felt harder...

A trip across the Nanaimo river & we found this great new fist-jam crack nicely cleaned up; no idea of the grade at the time but Peter decided to onsight it in good style

Islandclimber (Cory) top roping Bat Shit (5.10a) at Upper Deck in Nanaimo.

Lie backing on Psycho Babble (5.9) at Nanaimo Upper Deck in January! Crack was wet inside so no leading...

nanaimo river darkside trad route you can dance. sun city to right

climbing

two variations of this route can climb crack to the left for harder variation. large fist crack to right is sun city

sun city seen to right. cha ching and drifter to left.

T-Mac thinking outside the crack (note foot placement).

Soleman tries his callouses out on some rough (and hot) conglomerate. Temp 36 degrees C on the rock face. Ten seconds later I peeled off, and topped it out on attempt #2.