cool pitch, an easy 5.10, very good steming and pro, it may be the 'hard' pitch of the climb but is very fun and a must to increase bottlenecks enjoyment

Looking over CMC Valley, here's the sunset that greeted us when we popped out the hole on Grillmair Chimney's. This is the original, unedited photo... Photo by Carl Dyck.

Another February ascent. When the winter chinooks roll through it can be -10c in Canmore and short sleeves weather on the Yam.

Kyle checking us out at the climbers self registration near the trailhead after a day on "Suicide Wall".

Goat Mtn. (far left), Yamnuska (still in shadow at right) and Bow River at sunrise.

this is the best place to climb, Limestone rules, granits borring

This is me comming down from the forbiden anchor of doom because I followed something that looked fun

Emilie finishing up the second pitch of Grilmair's Chimneys on Yamnuska, near Calgary. The snow on the ground made for cold feet. Poor Emilie was on her second multipitch ever, and contrary to the bright smile on her face had just surpased her psychological crux of the route.

The sun was setting as we started to head down from Grillmair's chimney's. I liked the effect of the sun and the clouds.

The view from the top was spectacular. This is why I climb.

Emilie and Seyil follow the second pitch of Easy Street (5 pitch 5.5) Good fun pitch. Just a wee bit run out... :-)

Emilie was on belay for the second traversing pitch. This was shortly before I lost sight of them.

This shot was taken shortly after leaving the parking lot headed up to Yam to climb Grillmair. It's a long hike in, but well worth the effort.

This is Dave as we get ready to start the second pitch on Grillmair. It kept threatening to rain, but in the end the weather decided to cooperate, and it turned oiut to be a great day for climbing.

After climbing Grillmair's Chimneys we were hiking back to the parking lot and I got this picture with the last shot on my camera. It was a nice end to a great day of climbing.

Dave and I took a breather at the top of pitch 5. It's funny, from the ground it doesn't look all that high, yet 3 hours and 5 pitches later, it still looks almost as far to the top as it did when we started.

When I took this picture I was just trying to get some perspective of the height by showing the ground down below, and for some reason everything up close came out bright and colorful, and all of the background is all grey. It was by accident, but I thought it made a pretty cool effect.

This is a shot of me leading the final pitch on Grillmair's Chimneys. Pretty cool climb.

This is Dave topping out of the chimney. It's pretty cool when you come out of the dark chimney through that little hole, and all of a sudden you find yourself on flat ground at the top. I was cursing the shoes attached to the back of my harness a little as a climbed out. It's a pretty tight squeeze and I almost got stuck for a minute.

This is me enjoying the view from the top of Yam after climbing Grillmair.

This is a look at Yamnuska from the top.

Here is a photo of my buddy Francis untying after climbing Red Shirt, Yamnuska. I told him he looked like a goof striking a pose like that, but he is too cool and told me to "Just take the damn photo".

Gavin rips off his helmet after tripping up the 350m route(not shown), safely now on the backside of Yam.

Climber leaves the cave cut 2/3 up Diretissama with 3 pitches to go.

Thankfully, as we seem to not know rope handling very well, we are on the exit pitch 7 of Red Shirt as our ropes are somehow in a bad twist around each other.