I wish I knew what you were talking about…

Here is the orginal post by the offenders, http://www.rockclimbing.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1881006;search_string=squamish%20new%20route;guest=30808658#1881006

With all the hullabalu about that new route on Half Dome I thought I’d share some perspective and show what’s occuring in North Americas other granite climbing mecca Squamish.

Recently the University of British Columbia’s Varcity Outdoors Culb has been at work developing a new route in Squamish. In recent years climbers realized that the development of climbing routes here demands the removal of soil and vegetation from the rock to ensure a quality route. A few years back a friend and I cleaned an old, long established, long overgrown route over two day. In total it took us 20 man hours to clean a crack that was about 100m long. We spent about 20 bucks on a broom and a couple of BB-Q brushes. Today that route now enjoys a reasonable amount of popularity.

In a similar effort the VOC has decided to tackle the seamingly impossible and establish a new route in one of the most heavily vegitated sections of the Chief. Crap Crags is a 5.7 and is the easiest line that gets you to the top of the Chief. This line is so vegitated that any would be accentionist is more likely to be pulling on tree then rock. Undetured by this the VOC has laid down over ,000 dollars to finance their efforts, and are working at cleaning this line.

Is there a route topo anywhere other than the photo on their website? Or is it straight forward enough that one isn’t necessary?

Just as an FYI, the falcon nesting closures just came down a few days ago, so folks will have to wait a couple of months to go past the fourth pitch. I understand that Jeff M. and crew drilled a rap route from the fourth belay to accommodate the times of year when the route cannot be topped out.