At the start of the summer I was asked by my good buddy Finn McCann to join a four man team consisting of Murray Smith, Andrew Wilkanson, Finn and myself on an expedition to Canada, with the main goal of climbing The Lotus Flower Tower. 
I jumped at the offer and we flew out to Vancouver at the end of June. We hired a car and drove an hour up the road to the granite mecca of Squamish, a huge chunk of rock in a beautiful location.
Sam Hamer on Exasperator 5.10c
We then spent the next couple of days ticking off some of the classics and getting used to climbing together as a team. We managed to climb the amazing crack line Exasperator (5.10c or E3) and then brushed up on our big walls skills with the awesome and world class The Grand Wall (5.11a or E3/4) on the Chief. A 10 pitch, 300m line all the way the main face with incredible exposure.
To finish off was great to see Dreamcatcher and I managed to send a cool route just to the right of it called Young Blood (5.13a/7c+). I had remembered seeing a video of it a while back, of some nutter soloing this above some crazy netting system! Shhhhit that must have been scary! It was all a perfect start to the trip and was a great place to hang out for just a few days.
Sam on Young Blood 7c+
