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Mark's big climbing adventure. I climbed my first multi-pitch and first trad route this Saturday. The route was Grillmair Chimneys which was the first technical rock climb established on Yamnuska, one of the more famous mountains around Calgary. It was a 5.6, 8 pitches, and 295m. It started raining part way up, but it didn't affect the climb, thankfully. I enjoyed every part of the day :-)

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1. Yamnuska in the sunrise.
2. Looking down from about a third of the way up.
3. The route description and topo
4. This is the hole you come out of when you finish the route :-)
5. Tyler and I at the top!
6. The clouds were coming vertically up the mountain.
7. A 2x2 stitched photo of the cliff face. The orange dots represent the route, to the best of my recollection... which isn't that great...