Featured Route: Music Building

(p) Hamish Baxter

See: http://www.buildering.net/guidebooks/ubc#route703

Robin Avery recently sent a new variation of a classic route on campus, the Music building. In the past the chimney was the only practical way of climbing the building, as the crack in the back offered the only protection. However some large air ducting pipes were placed (haphazardly slapped?) on the outside of the building in the last few years, offering some new points of protection. Robin tackled the right rib of the left chimney, i.e. "the arete".

A veritable media circus gathered for the ascent, including photographers and someone with an HD video camera and a floodlight! How they managed to climb undetected with a floodlight is beyond me. Luckily this aspect of the building doesn't see a lot of pesky pedestrian traffic. UBC Plant Operation vans drove by on a couple of occasions, but didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.

Kudos to the whole crew for a ballsy ascent. Thanks to Hamish Baxter for the photos. Check out his Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hbaxter/

(p) Hamish Baxter

(p) Hamish Baxter