Vancouver Island Rock Climbing

Vancouver Island has lots of great rock climbing. There are steep sport climbing crags, bouldering, trad walls and big alpine faces to keep any rock climber busy for a lifetime.

There are sport climbing areas near most of the major Vancouver Island communities, developed and maintained by local climbers offering thousands of high quality routes.

For more information see our new Vancouver Island climbing pages>

LINKS

Climbers Access Society of BC
The Climbers Access Society of B.C. is an independent not-for-profit society which provides a united, province-wide voice on climbers' access issues.

Gripped
Canadian climbing mag.

Rockclimbing.com
Online since 1995 as one of the first sports websites ever, Rockclimbing.com contains information on 6178 climbing areas in 93 countries easily making it the largest climbing site on the net!

Rockies Climbing Guide
The authoritative site for sport, multi-pitch rock, ice, and alpine climbing in the Canadian Rockies and Bugaboos.

Skaha Rock
The home of up-to-date info on climbing at Skaha Bluffs, B.C - new route descriptions and grades, topos to selected crags, and updates on access issues, wildlife warnings, and other news.

Squamish Climbing
Online headquarters for everything climbing in Squamish. Planning resources, links and online discussion forums.