July 22, 2010
Skaha now has its very first 5.14. Nexus-6 (5.14a) was established by Kevin Wilkinson in June after a number of days of effort, significantly more effort than he had put into repeating a number of the harder lines at the Bluffs.
Nexus-6 opens with a powerful start sequence that leads across Catapult and into Firewire before launching up the hanging arete of Replicant. Having solved the challenge of the intial wall, it was the stamini required to compelte the 5.13+ finishing sequence of the Replicant that forestalled the first redpoint for a number of days.
And just to keep himself busy, Kevin also added a number of other fine 5.13+ routes to the Bluffs - More Human than Human (13c) takes a very steep wall left of Catapult, and supercedes the old, neglected route Donkey Puncher, and Surface of the Sun (13c) at Raven's Wall.
This latter route stimulated development of several other hard routes on the steep south face of Raven's Castle, aided by the untypically cool temperatures in late June - Rusty Trombone (13d) by Adam Tutte and Vanishing Point (12d) by Aaron Culver.
Route info will be published in the next new route update, slated to appear the week of Sept 6th. |
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July 18, 2010
A bit of important news from BC Parks that crept under the skaha.org radar....
At an initial size of 179 hectares, the new Skaha Bluffs Park (brought into force on April 21, 2010) protects a popular climbing area and important wildlife habitat. Land within the provincial park falls under the jurisdiction of BC Parks and provisions of the Park Act and its regulations apply.
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July 18th, 2010
BC Parks have arranged with the Park Facility Operators to have the gates opened at 0500.
This makes it possible to access the Bluffs parking lot an hour earlier than previously possible. This will give people an opportunity to make the most of the cool mornings before the summer heat kicks in. This is only for the summer months, so the road signage will not be changed.
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June 18th, 2010
BC Parks have advised that the access road to Skaha Bluffs will be closed to all vehicle traffic on Tuesday June 22nd in order to address the growing erosion issue just below the upper pullout/gabion wall.
If you are climbing that day, foot access is still available.
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March 29th, 2010
The access road to Skaha Bluffs will be closed tomorrow, March 30th, for surfacing of the newly widened lower part of the road. The road will be closed completely in order to finish the surfacing in a timely fashion. It is anticipated it will be open on March 31st.
The good news is that the access road will be pavement all the way up to the parking lots. |
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