Red Rocks – It IS Red and there ARE Rocks in It!
Red Rocks is a justifiably world-renowned destination climbing area, and contrary to the quirky 1980s cider ad by Leslie Nielsen, it IS red and there ARE rocks in it! The […]
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White Stone around Red Rocks
Las Vegas is an extraordinary story of city-building. Fuelled by tolerant gambling regulations, and the construction of the Hoover Dam, the population of 5,000 in the early 30s, has grown […]
St George – Sandstone and Basalt
St George, Utah, lies about a hundred miles east of Las Vegas, Nevada, but by a strange quirk of boundaries, it’s two States away, with the I15 nipping through a […]
Mojave Limestone and The Grail a.k.a. Lime Kiln Canyon
Whilst Las Vegas is famed for Red Rocks, and Southern Utah for Moab and Indian Creek, between these two sandstone Meccas lies a tremendous wealth of less well-known climbing – […]
New Jack City a.k.a. Sawtooth Canyon
WARNING – IF YOU ARE PHOBIC ABOUT 8-LEGGED CREATURES DON’T LOOK TOO CLOSELY AT THE PHOTO A COUPLE DOWN THE POST. The main claim to fame of Barstow, in southern […]
Pinnacles National Park and the Western Sierra
Lake Tahoe marked a decision point in our trip, with options eastward towards Salt Lake City, or extending our north-bound trajectory through Oregon to Smith Rock. Unfortunately, a major cold […]
Lake Tahoe, Lover’s Leap and The “Best VS in the World”?
Lake Tahoe straddles the border between California and Nevada in the northern Sierras. Lying at 6,225 ft above sea level, Lake Tahoe earns a few entries in the record books: […]
Around Bishop – ORG and the Buttermilks (and some Festival Schmoozing)
Owens River Gorge is just a few miles outside of Bishop and at a much lower elevation than the last few crags we posted about. Depending on your point of […]
Two Big Rocks and a Big Lake
We were (over) due a rest day, and Mono Lake was the perfect spot to spend it. This iconic geological oddity combines volcanic origins with extreme mineral abundance (due to […]
Climbing Above Bishop – Pine Creek Canyon and Gong Show Wall
There’s an absolute tonne of climbing around Bishop, the outdoor capital of the Eastern Sierra. It probably has a similar claim to “epicentre” status as say Moab or Boulder, and […]
Alabama Hills, in the shadow of Mt Whitney
After the sandbag trad and hot, grueling walk-ins of Tahquitz and Suicide, we were open to some lazy roadside sport – ideally at altitude and/or in the shade. Mountain Project […]
Tahquitz and Suicide Rocks (Not Painless!)
Idyllwild is a pleasant if touristy town in the San Jacinto Mountains, a couple of hours east of Los Angeles. It sits nestled between two giant granite bastions: Tahquitz and […]
Sin City – Too Hot to Handle
Las Vegas is a pretty logical start/end point for our West Coast road trip – not least because there’s a direct flight (outbound at least) from Manchester. Red Rocks is […]
The Scoop, Sròn Uladail or (Strone Ulladale)
The Scoop is by far the most difficult “tick” of the 61 routes featured in the iconic book Hard Rock, rumoured to have been included by the mischievous Ken Wilson […]
Hard Rock tick (but not the big one!) and more purile ticking
Weather and other commitments have frustrated my plans for a final push to complete the two remaining gaps in my Hard Rock ticklist. The cruddy weather has allowed a bit […]
A Long Way from Strone Ulldale
Anyone tuning in for news of Bill and Dom’s Excellent Adventures Episode 14 – The Scoop on Strone Ulldale – are in for a disappointment. Storm Lillian had other ideas […]
The Path to Rome
Apart from one tentative foray many years ago, I’d never climbed on the Llyn Peninsula. Nor had Andy. To have lived within three hours drive of such an iconic and […]
Splendid (Self) Isolation on Range West
We’ve posted a few Pembroke reports over the last year or two, often featuring the juggling and compromise required to balance all the permutations of seacliff climbing on a military […]
Doing the Rounds
You might have spotted a recent slow down in posts, and a corresponding brevity. That’s probably a relief to many of you, but for anyone missing the more regular outpouring […]
South West Seacliffs – #3 Pembroke
… and all of a sudden, it was summer! After the washout-that-wasn’t on Gower we headed further west to Pembroke to meet up with Jake and Leah for the weekend. […]
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