Day Three
Phew! Rock Climbing Centre Tuesday 20th The pace has not slowed. Our day was spent in and around Squamish, a town midway between Vancouver and Whistler on the Sea to Sky Highway (Route 99). The highway goes on to Pemberton and then the northern interior of BC. It has some amazing views as you drive the various dual and single carriage sections. First stop was Britannia Beach, and specifically Watts Point. An area popular with rock climbers, and Nick, who can be found up there at least once a week scaling the granite outcrops. "The first bit is step then it's OK" says Nick. We have been lulled into a false sense of security before! We did not get to the top. I'd prefer to be upside down in a plane at 3,000' that halfway up tracks hewn out of the rock, where I have to look down where I have been. Coupled with that a spaniel has no sense of danger and at one point fell down a 10' drop when curiosity got the better of ...