The Final Stretch

Well, here we are at the end of the trip.  We start wending our way home on Saturday, it's hard to believe that it's time to get back to jobs and home responsibilities, but it has been wonderful to have this time together to explore and enjoy the first months of our marriage. 

Mike did one alpine peak in BC--Mt. Habrich-- with his friend Duncan (from England); they hiked in 4 hours or so to reach the final headwall, 1000 feet of climbing!  They really enjoyed it but it sounds like a long haul!  Just before we left Squamish we took a 3 day backpacking trip in Garibaldi Provincial Park.  It was a great time; beautiful, pristine wilderness, hardly any people around and relatively good weather (one day was rainy off and on).  We have lots of pictures to share, so I hope you enjoy them

Since then we've been 'camped' in Boulder, staying with our friend Colin and enjoying the luxuries of life under a roof: refrigeration, running water, etc.... ;)  We've done a lot of climbing at small crags which has been a nice change from the long, committing days we had in Squamish.  The three of us did do one adventure climb in Rocky Mountain National Park: the Petit Grepon.  It was 5+ miles of hiking in to a remote little pond surrounded by granite walls.  The Petit Grepon is a free-standing tower, 1000 feet high, with a tiny summit--maybe 8 feet by 25 feet? A pretty amazing spot, and a fun day for us.   The climbing wasn't particularly hard, but it was a long strenuous day altogether, we started at 7:30 a.m. and didn't make it back to the car until 9:00 p.m!   We were ravenous and exhausted but very happy to have done it!  


Hope you all enjoy the pictures, and we look forward to catching up with everyone when we get home!

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