Opening a route in 2019
![Photo of a young woman attached to a yellow rope on a rock face, against a background of the forest in late fall.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/val-david-escalade_rock-climbing/wp-content/uploads/sites/115/2020/04/ML-ov.jpg)
Source:
Photograph by Pierre Cornellier
Above, Martine Lavallée at Mont Larose (Montcalm) in 2019.
The first step in opening a route is to brush it up and down and check if there are enough holds for it to be climbed.
Source:
Photograph by Pierre Cornellier
Above, Martine Lavallée at Mont Larose (Montcalm) in 2019.
The first step in opening a route is to brush it up and down and check if there are enough holds for it to be climbed.