Vancouver Island - May 13th-15th 2022

I headed to Vancouver Island this past weekend to visit my friend Braeden and have our last D&D session. I took the 6pm ferry after work and arrived around 7:30. Braeden picked me up and we went to his place shortly before heading out to the local climbing gym. First we tried to go to Crag-X but they were closed because of a competition they were setting up and so we ended up going to Boulder House, a bouldering only gym. We had a blast for the next 2 hours and I did a ton of problems, topping it off with a big V6 double dyno move that was a lot of fun. After we had some drinks and chatted and passed out. We woke up at 9 and hit the road at 10. Our plan was to do some outdoor sport climbing at Mt. Wells, which I had found online. Braeden and Sheena had never been outdoors before so I was showing them the ropes (literally). We got there around 11 and a guy in the parking lot was kind enough to show us the guidebook and let us take pictures so we could figure out the routes. I identified an easy wall (Prisoner Wall) that had some 5.7's/5.8's and we went there. I lead the 5.8 and it turned out to be anything but easy because it was soaking wet. It was nasty wet dirty ugly climbing but I made it up and after Braeden and Sheena followed, I cleaned it and we decided to go to a different wall where we were hoping it was dry. We went to the South Wall and we were in luck, it was much better. We had a blast on two routes that we didn't know what they were (ended up being a 5.8 and 5.7) and Braeden actually lead one (his first)!. He waited at the top and I went up and showed him how to rappel (which was another first for him). We headed back to his place to get ready for our D&D session at 5.

Joe and Wade came over and we started kind of late at 6:30 but it was a blast. We nerded it up until midnight when we finally wrapped up our 2 year campaign (which I won't go in to detail here) before some drunken shenanigans occurred and I passed out around 2. The next day was lazy and hungover and I took the 1pm ferry back, drove home and chilled the rest of the day. Good times.