OK, this has to be quick, because I'm running out of batteries and Rohan is cooking dinner etc. etc.
Rohan got here a week and a day ago. Since then, it has rained a whole lot. We went to Squamish, where people explained that it was still Spring and that it was raining a lot. Despite the rain, we got a solid day's climbing in (plus a few bits a pieces on other days), before engaging in some time wasting to wait for more good weather. Generally, the climbing was wet.
The weather improved yesterday which gave us a chance to climb Yak Peak, an enormous granite face just off the Trans-Canada Highway. Yak Peak was also pretty wet in places, but on the whole the climbing was great. It was a little weird to climb hundreds of metres off the ground and still hear the trucks rolling by on the highway, but I guess that's the price of convenient climbing.
We got another day of good weather today, which we celebrated by having the van break down on the highway. We've limped into Kelowna and will try to get it seen to tomorrow. At this stage, the plan is to remove some parts to convert it from four-wheel-drive to two-wheel-drive. Hopefully that will get us to the Bugaboos and back without dying. The Bugaboos might be covered in snow, and even if they're not it will probably rain, but we're still planning on going there.
OK, gotta go contribute to the great mushroom risotto thing that we're going to eat tonight. I'll try to write something more interesting soon.
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