John was most hospitable, the conversations were great. He’s studied philosophy with post-grad focus on Plato, so his thinking style is sharp and he doesn’t hesitate to ask questions to dig to the root of things.

Things came in to focus pretty quick. I’d promised myself that when opportunity knocked I’d take hold and go along for the ride. The knock was about 24 hours ago and now I’m no longer in Squamish.

It didn’t take too long to find parking for Seal Cove, the first area we (I) wanted to try out. Unfortunately, we didn’t recognize it, and spent another 1/2 hour looking.

We’ve arrived and my trip is about to begin. Yesterday was go-go-go, the van continued it’s gas-guzzling, full throttle only antics, our brakes smoked, the day was hot, but after about 8 hours of travel time we pulled in to Squamish proper.

So I got up an 11a at Lake Louise, but just got up, not clean or redpoint or anything like that. No actual falls, just inability to conquer my pump. I guess two weeks away from any regular climbing does have an impact on ones performance.

We’re in Banff park, paying 31$ a night and it would be 37 to include a fire. I don’t want to stay here too long at all. ALl the climbing is back around Canmore, Alberta, where I sortof know someone. We’ll head back that way, perhaps, tomorrow.

Called home. It’s St. Jean Baptiste day back in Hull. And I remember all sorts of things done during this party, and I remember that in 7 days it’s Canada Day, and I’m not in the city. No pre-Canada Day party this year.

So the rest of the 21st was driving, the only thing of note was the gas pedal sortof breaking (it came detached from the floor, Nick fixed it with some spare screws) then arriving in Calgary and imposing on Mitch – who has been more than welcoming. Email that night I received a bit of [...]

The problem with running when you have no place to go is that when you stop running, you still have no place to go.

A late night last night, as an action packed day filled most of our day. We left Winnipeg and our wonderful hosts shortly after 1 PM with no definite stop in mind – just something between there and Calgary.