Climbing along the Pennine Way
Another crag conundrum – where to climb in a heatwave during the barmy busyness of a lockdown-loosened Bank Holiday / half-term week. Helen and I found two solutions at either […]
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Social distancing in a post-Industrial hole in the ground
We nipped into Harpur Hill for a bit of lockdown-loosened cragging and were amazed to find the place rammed – not with climbers (though we did bump into Chris and […]
Lockdown loosening
It’s hard to believe that I haven’t set hand or foot to rock since 20th March – almost 8 weeks and the longest gap in my outdoor climbing in certainly […]
Running Like a Climber – A trip back into the RockAroundTheWorld archives
We’re approaching 6 weeks into lockdown and the lack of climbing is starting to tell. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and I briefly rekindled my running career, only to […]
North America Wall revisited – The Rucksack Club’s first virtual slideshow
In these difficult times it’s really important to stay connected even if we can’t meet physically, so it was a great privilege to team up with Bill to deliver The […]
Run-Around-The-House
Two weeks into “lock-down” (in the UK that is, three weeks if you count our lock-down escapes in Spain and then France) and it’s the longest time that I haven’t […]
SunRock 2020 – not quite what we’d planned!
Wow – it’s barely a week ago (Friday 13th, not that I’m superstitious – or wasn’t!) that we were sitting in the kitchen at Finepark, Finestrat, with the Rucksack Club […]
Back in Blighty and a Birthday Blast for Jake
I’m going to preface this blog post with a disclaimer, given the amount of vitriol that seems to be propagating on climbing fora and in the media, and also to […]
Tierra de Nadie – chasing the shade!
Sorry for the blog backlog (is that a back-blog?) but things have been a bit hectic for the last week. SPOILER ALERT – WE’VE MADE IT HOME – Story of […]
Back to Bunol
Bunol gets a big write up in Donde Escalar (full page spread and 4 karabiners) but we’d had a previous recce a few years ago and pretty much failed to […]
Chiva
Yet another pretender to the Castellón climbing crown, Chiva is too recently developed to even make it into the latest edition of Donde Escalar (2018). It does feature in the […]
Altura
As you turn off the A23 at junction 31, just past the Aldi, and head through the well-kept town of Altura, there’s no sign that another of Castellon’s newly developed […]
Alto Mijares – Olba – Sector Casucho
Waking up in the van at the Alto Mijares refugio, and looking out of the bedroom window; hrmmm, where shall we go climbing today? The top of the canyon immediately […]
Alto Mijares – Olba – Sector Sol de Invierno
The recently developed climbing area of Alto Mijares is near the village of Olba in the far southern reaches of Aragon. It is surrounded by far more famous and well […]
Moixent – Barranc de la Fos
Moixent is a pretty little village, just off the A35 west of Vallada. The rocky gorge of the Barranc de la Fos is just north of the village and barely […]
Vallada – Escala de la Vida
A blustery westerly had us looking for an east-facing crag – we didn’t have to look far: A bit further up the hillside from the Xorreres sector we’ve already explored […]
Tierra de Nadie – Welcome to No Man’s Land
Tierra de Nadie is a recently developed crag between Montessa and Vallada (hence “No Man’s Land”). It is clearly visible from the A 35 and from the well-established climbing area […]
Vallada – Paratge Ermites
We visited Vallada a couple of years ago on a chilly day and left impressed – the sign-off line on the blog post was: “plenty to come back for”https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2017/02/22/vallada/… and […]
Leyva – Carnaval time!
The main cliff at Leyva, Pared Sur, is one of the most impressive bits of rock in southern Spain – 150m high and about a mile wide, it’s position aloft […]
Dalias – La Hormiga and Sanson
Dalias is a small town, halfway between the Sierra Nevada and the Costa del Sol. We were looking for options to extend our stay in the Alpujarra, having decided that […]
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