I don't think I've ever gone to Sunshine Slabs willingly. The funny thing is, it's my favourite crag to climb at. The thing is, if I'm climbing there, it's because several plans have gone wrong already. It's the gawdamned consolation prize of the Bow Valley for me.

So where the hell did it start?

Plan A was to ski a couloir, but the recent snow and stability forced us to write that plan off.

So instead, Katherine and I met up this morning to go try and recreate our success on the Shoe the other day by climbing another Bow Valley multi-pitch super early in the season. While drinking some sweet, sweet Oso Negro coffee in Canmore at the Rocky Mountain Bagel Company (go for the bagels, stay for the coffee), we considered our options. Katherine was stoked to try Valley View on Cascade and I sort of have unfinished business with Plutonian Shores at Raven Crag which I once bailed from the bottom of when it started raining and then bailed from top of the fifth pitch with Katherine when we got caught in a not-entirely unexpected monsoon.

We were trying to decide which routes would actually work since there was A LOT more snow in the mountains than there was a couple of weeks ago.