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FINISH HOLD - #18 > AUGUST/SEPTEMBER - Memoirs of Yamnuska
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Memoirs of Yamnuska
Poem and Illustration by Amy Cheng
This image came to me almost a year ago. Its completion comes just in time for the start of another summer season in Yamnuska, Canmore, AB.
This drawing is dedicated to all the climbers out there:
whose hands and feet are craving real rock,
whose eyes would rather squint at the sun than glimpse another grey cloud,
whose ears are reminiscing the rustling of the trees,
whose nose and mouth wants that refreshing, clean breeze,
and whose entire being is just home-sick for Nature,
and to return again to the wilderness.
How sweet it is,
In those treasured moments,
when our urban troubles can dissipate,
and the only problem we need to solve,
is the beta:
that crimp,
that sloper,
that dyno.
So here is to another season,
Of cranking harder than you did last summer,
And spontaneous misadventures.
But most of all,
to just being alive,
- and outside -
where life makes sense,
in the peace of the great wide open.
