Our first couple days were packed. We did the Grand Wall to Roman Chimneys- 12 pitches of 10+ climbing in 10 hours. This was a long, strenuous day with Rich leading everything and me pulling on bolts, gear and stepping on bolts all over the place! Not my proudest climb, but I did it and didn't slow us down. Rich did an awesome job leading and didn't even seem all that tired at the end, but I was out of commission for the next day.
We then had two days of rain:( We tried to make the best of it- Rich biked in the rain, we went to a yoga class, went to Whistler, saw movies and did a lot of sleeping and reading. I'm not quite sure how mountain biking counts as a rainy day activity for Rich...definitely not for me. The sun finally came out and we did a very wet multipitch 5.9. Scary when wet, but we were just happy to be back on the rock.
We didn't take a whole lot of pictures on this trip, these are the best.
Looking over Howe Sound from the Squaw wall. This was a great 5.10d multipitch.
Slabmaster Miranda- ha ha. We actually did 7 pitch climb of all slab- 10.c. We even had fun!
Rainy day hike to some waterfall on the way to Whistler.
Our new friends Beth and Kristen. We met them the first night and had a great time hanging out with them in the evenings and doing a little climbing together. Beth lives in the mid west and Kristen lives in San Fran. We hope to climb with them in the future.
There were a couple slacklines set up in camp, and Rich could not resist them. We had a lot of fun watching him.
This was a super hard and runout 5.11 slab at Shannon Falls (Local Boys Done Good)- 58 meters long. I fell multiple times trying to follow Rich to the first bolt, which was about 35 feet up- I don't know how he kept it together. He did this clean- a tick for any slabmaster. 
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Good work on your vertical endeavors. Hopefully no slab falls. Thanks for the pictures! Devils Tower looked pretty sweet too. Jeremy
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