Monday, March 10, 2008

Smith Rocks!

The weekend after OD went off for her 3 days of pampering and luxury, I decided to sit in a car with Colin for 7 hours whilst I bombarded him with melancholic singer songwriters from my ipod - serves him right for only bringing the 100 greatest handbag house tracks on his fancy music phone.

Drive down was fun actually - been a long while since I was down in deepest Seattle and central Oregon.


Portland has a lot of people who really rate god as "an all round good chap" - maybe he'll sort out their sub-prime mortgage mess for them.

Portlanders do appreciate the finer things in life though...... not bad for a corner shop.


On the way down we went boarding on Mt Hood - makes you realise just how lucky we are to have Whistler just up the road. As you can see, we were stoked. This was pre-shredding.



Post shredding on lumpy icy snow, we were a little less syked.

Col did manage a little off-piste bouldering though.....


We then spent a couple of days climbing at Smith Rocks - good to be back - it'd been nearly 10 years since I was last there - it was still fingery. Most entertaining couple of days with a bunch of reprobate vancouver climbing types.
Really cool place though - be a good spot to go back en famille in the autumn and do some camping, climbing, paddling, snake bothering etc.


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