Chockstone Forum

      Sponsored By
      ROCK
   HARDWARE

Chockstone Photography

Australian Landscape Prints

Chockstone Forum - Crag & Route Beta

Crag & Route Beta

Area	Location	Sub Location	Crag	Links
International	(General)	(General)	(General)

Topic Date User

Canada 22-May-2010 At 6:04:24 PM Paulie

Message

Another vote for Jasper, I lived there for 7 months and it was freaking awesome. Very cool laid back country town feel (esp in winter) with some stunning rock and ice climbing and great bouldering too, all within a bike ride from the centre of town.

Jasper Park Lodge is a good place to base yourself too if you want to work for a while (recommended), tho it's a bit of a party place...in town is deffo a better feel and you'll meet more locals.

If you get there make sure you get up some of the loooooooong trad rock routes around Mt Edith Cavell and up behind Pyramid Mtn, sick sick sick.

I would give Banff a miss...nice place to visit but super touristy, good to spend a few days there tho - good shopping - Rude Boys is awesome!

Don't even think of Lake Louise, it's a one horse strip mall (well, the mountain is fun at least - good park with some seriously big tables and massive super pipe).

Canmore is awesome too, with a great community of climbers and riders, loads of cool folk to meet there, tho it's getting pretty busy there too.

I always wanted to live in Kamloops for a while too, dunno about the climbing but it's got some of the best MTB in the world :-D

Golden is sick in winter and also has some great MTB in summer, tho go there in winter for sure coz CPR ridge has some of the steepest frontcountry lines and deepest snow around, take a powder board!

Get over to the east coast too, Halifax and surrounds is amazing and has some stunning climbing and bouldering, highly recommended!