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A Feast on The East

June 25, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

According to Hard Rock: “The East Buttress of Scafell is the finest crag in The Lakes. A great lonely crag. Its walls overhang. Water drips out instead of down.” Quite […]

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Lakes, UK

RockAroundTheWorld Retrospective – The 2004-5 Big Trip part 1: Around the Baltic in 80 Days

June 22, 2020by Dominic 5 Comments

We first coined the phrase “RockAroundTheWorld” in 2004 when Helen and I took the tumultuous decision to have a “grownup gap-year”, take the kids (aged 8 and 10) out of […]

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Eastern Europe, Hungary, Norway, Slovenia

Virtual Gogarth Meet and Quiz

June 13, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

Every June, for almost 20 years, Helen and I have organised The Gogarth Meet. Despite my best efforts, and the climbing on The Best Crag In The World, this has […]

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Peak, Rucksack Club, UK, Wales

Nesscliffe – Trouble in Toytown

June 9, 2020by Dominic 1 Comment

We visited Nesscliffe a couple of years ago, with the focus very much on Jake’s ambition to lead his first E7. That trip turned out well… https://www.google.com/amp/s/rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2018/06/03/nesscliffe-and-jakes-first-e7/amp/ …and I’d been […]

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UK

Curbar – a John Allen homage

June 8, 2020by Dominic 1 Comment

Jake is back home for a while and keen to get some Peak climbing in the bag, and a fairly arbitrary decision saw us pick Curbar for a rather damp […]

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Peak, UK

Kinder Northern Edges – a different Kinda Grit

June 2, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

Ashop Edge, on the north side of the Kinder plateau, is something of a connoisseurs crag. Rarely in condition, it features a number of routes that (when “in”) would warrant […]

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Peak, UK

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