Ardverikie Wall
We’re off on another foray north of the border, chasing the sun and dodging showers as usual. There’s no very well defined plan, although it would be nice to tick […]
We’re off on another foray north of the border, chasing the sun and dodging showers as usual. There’s no very well defined plan, although it would be nice to tick […]
Regular readers (both of you!) will know that Gogarth is my favourite stomping ground, so unsurprisingly I’m gradually running out of things that I haven’t done or aren’t too terrifying […]
The “late shift” of Martin, Dave, Helen, Jim and Claire arrived on Monday to keep the buzz going for another week, bringing a welcome improvement in the weather with them! […]
Jack’s official meet started on the Thursday before the Bank Holiday weekend, so Paul, Jake and I took advantage of the extended window to beat the inevitable traffic and get […]
After a bit of a Covid-enforced lull in RockAroundTheWorld activity, Sunday was an opportunity for some gentle trad in the company of Stan (also recovering, though a bit further down […]
Back in Blighty after two months on some of Europe’s finest limestone sport crags, there’s little enthusiasm for local bolt-clipping. The appeal of the convenience and comfort of the “metal […]
After a couple of months of more or less non-stop climbing we were plotting our route home from the Ariege, allowing a fairly leisurely 3 days. Each of our last […]
There’s a huge amount of climbing in the Ariege, featuring limestone and granite; single pitch valley cragging and bigger mountain adventures and to suit all tastes and abilities. The Niaux […]
Our onwards travels with our counter-intuitive escape from rain-soaked Spain took us to the Ariege in the French Pyrenees, just to the north of Andorra. The forecast promised a generally […]
With Storm Celia lashing much of Spain with rain, we headed north into the Pyrenees once again, which was counter-intuitively forecasted to have better weather (better but not necessarily great!) […]
The forecasted “Big Rain” wasn’t much more than drizzle, and it was at least as wet everywhere else, so we stayed put in Calcena. To pass the time we made […]
Many of you will be familiar with our favoured reference source for exploring Spain (at least in print) – Donde Escalar has inspired numerous happy finds over the years, and […]
This was a “new to us” crag, even though it appeared in the first edition of Lleida Climbs. I guess the reason we hadn’t visited previously is because its sweet […]
Helen stumbled on this series of crags on the web, and it gets a 3 carabiner rating in Donde Escalar (out of a maximum of 6) this roughly translates as […]
Our unexpected 4-day weather window of Roca Caliente in Los Pirineos came to an end, prompting the usual soul / app-searching. Without an obvious “grand beau temps” candidate amid a […]
A couple of return trips to places we’ve been before – albeit new sectors. I signed off my 2014 Santa Ana post with: Definitely somewhere we’ll return on future trips. […]
Valle de Isabena runs parallel to and to the west of the main thoroughfare from Lleida to France – in fact Google maps routed us along it on the way […]
With a sunny day in prospect, we decided to check out the most northerly area covered in the Roca Caliente guidebook. The Val d’Aran is the northernmost extent of Catalunya, […]
The Escales section of the guidebook runs to almost a hundred pages, with a dozen sectors and a couple of hundred routes in the vicinity of the reservoir of the […]
OK – did anyone guess right? After much forecast-searching and head-scratching on a rainy morning in Alto Mijares we set the controls of Rockaroundtheworld for the Heart of the Sun […]