Breaking new ground in The Pass
The post-heatwave monsoon has well and truly arrived, and the only dry cragging available this weekend (at least north of Pembroke) is in North Wales. Even then, you need to […]
Monthly Archives: July 2019
A week of Peak Temperatures
With the seemingly inevitable new “hottest day on record” arriving this week, the fickle relationship between climbers and the weather is exposed: “It’s too hot!” There’s no pleasing some people […]
Celestial Twins
This stellar-named crag actually does live up to the billing, at least as far as the setting is concerned. Tucked away in a leafy backwater, just over the Staffordshire border, […]
Saxon on Scafell
Waking up in Wasdale (after celebrating Nick’s Joss Naylor success) to find it wasn’t raining, there really was only one option – a day on Scafell. It’s a pain to […]
Pavey Ark and a big day out
Up in the Lakes to support Nick’s Joss Naylor challenge – a run from Pooley Bridge to Wasdale, traversing 30 summits over a distance of 48 miles and climbing 17,000 […]
Third Sister, Gower
The Three Sisters are just some of the landmark bits of rock architecture that decorate the Gower coast between Rhossili and Port Eynon – it’s no accident that this was […]
The Lobster Pot and Morfa Bychan – two contrasting crags
In search of some steepness, we planned to leave north Pembroke and head for Gower via an exploratory visit to Morfa Bychan on the Carmarthenshire coast. The only flaw being […]
Carreg-y-Barcud
This is the undoubtedly the epicentre of North Pembroke climbing – dozens of high quality routes packed into not much more than a couple of hundred metres of bullet-hard sandstone, […]
Porth-y-Ffynnon – a walk on the slabbier side
With the departure of the keen team (a.k.a. Steve and James) we were left to our own devices and took the opportunity to escape the unrelenting steepness of South Pembroke […]
St Govans East
It’s hard to understand why St Govans East is so much less popular than its more celebrated neighbour – for the sake of another 100m walk you might well have […]
Penally – Pembroke off the beaten track
Having made a Pembroke Pilgrimage at least annually for the last 30 years or so, there aren’t too many unexplored areas for us, especially ones that aren’t affected by bird […]
Sunny Scareys
Another favourite spot to avoid bombs and bird bans, so no surprise to find a number of teams with the same idea of a visit to Mother Carey’s. Here’s Helen […]
Stand by to Boogie – more Mowing Word fun
Summer has finally arrived and Helen and I are back in Pembroke, this time in the company of Steve and James. It’s mid week and outside the school holidays, so […]
