Looking to do Washington Column

Hey guys, Vancouver resident here. I am very interested in trying Washington column in the autumn. Has anyone ever had luck meeting up with randoms on MP for international trips. Let me know your horror stories etc. You can also let me know if you're interested!

My friend Joe Koropecki lives on Vancouver Island. He works in a gold mine and is underground for long periods of time but I will let him know about this post. I don't know where he is on the island, but I know he goes out solo practice Aid climbing because he can't find a partner. And he would be interested in Washington column I'm sure.

Shawn,  reach out to me on messenger. 

Let's chat, look me up.

Shawn, I'm in Cumberland on Vancouver island, we could plan a day in Squamish to get to know each other 

I’ve met people for international trips 2 times and met 2 random people to wall climb with when I was in Yosemite last year. All my randoms have worked out great so far but maybe I have just been lucky. My advice would be to join the Facebook group for the area you want to climb and make a post there introducing yourself with some pictures and related climbs you’ve done as well as goals and dates you could be there. There’s a Yosemite climbing FB group, I met 1 partner on there before I left for my trip and I met the second partner in camp 4 after I got off Washington column with partner 1 since he had to go back to work.

I did uncle Ben’s in Squamish and some stuff in index WA, there’s definitely aid in Squamish that will prepare you for Yosemite.

Be certain to carefully scrutinize the credentials of any prospective partner, for he could be a big wall theorist in disguise.  

Peter Zabrok wrote:

Be certain to carefully scrutinize the credentials of any prospective partner, for he could be a big wall theorist in disguise.  

Or he could be a poutine munching scalawag.  

Dean Rosnau wrote:

Or he could be a poutine munching scalawag.  

Holy geez ... look who crawled out of the dirt! Where've you been? It's been, like, forever, eh? 

Peter Zabrok wrote:

Holy geez ... look who crawled out of the dirt! Where've you been? It's been, like, forever, eh? 

Indeed....It's been a minute, my friend. Happy to say I'm still alive and kicking.

I've recently relocated.....from Aspen, Colorado to Whitefish, Montana.

That's a long way from everywhere! Hope all is, like, well, eh? 

Peter Zabrok wrote:

That's a long way from everywhere! Hope all is, like, well, eh? 

It's pretty close to the Bugaboos.   

I got lured out of retirement by a billionaire client, to do a rather extraordinary project. Just couldn't pass it up. And the peace up here is a far cry from the chaos that is Aspen. My writing is more inspired here too. #winning

Any bear encounters in whitefish

wake and bake wrote:

Any bear encounters in whitefish

Thankfully, no. They are much more prevalent up in the Park, where they feed on selfie-obsessed tourons.