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Ardverikie Wall

May 20, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Scotland, UK

Rhoscolyn

May 14, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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UK, Wales

Pembroke Rucksack Club Meet – Part 2

May 8, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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! […]

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Rucksack Club, UK, Wales

Pembroke Rucksack Club Meet – Part I

May 2, 2022by Dominic 4 Comments

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 […]

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Rucksack Club, UK, Wales

Pike o’ Blisco – Three Crag Day

April 17, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Lakes, UK

Completing Almscliff’s Big Three

April 3, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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UK, Yorkshire

Saint-Géry and Vers – That’s The Lot

March 23, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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France

Niaux Valley – Génat, Sibada and Alliat

March 21, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Ariege, France

Keep Calamès and Carry On Climbing!

March 19, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Ariege, France

Val de Cinca and Orange Snow

March 16, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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!) […]

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Aragon, Spain

More Calcena and a Rest Day with the Vultures

March 13, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Spain

Calcena – a New Addition to our List of Favourite Places

March 10, 2022by Dominic 1 Comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Spain

La Pauta – Small but perfectly formed

March 7, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Catalunya, Spain

Castillonroi

March 6, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Spain

Camarasa – Sector Solarium

March 5, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Catalunya, Spain

Santa Ana and Alos de Balaguer

March 4, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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. […]

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Aragon, Catalunya, Spain

Valle de Isabena & Alins

March 1, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Spain

Bagergue – Val d’Aran

February 28, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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, […]

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Catalunya, Spain

Escales – Els Escondite

February 27, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Catalunya, Spain

Viuet – Roca Caliente en los Pirineos

February 26, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Aragon, Catalunya, Spain

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