Rumney – Welcome to New Hampshire
After a glorious drive through the Green Mountains of Vermont we arrived in New Hampshire and the first New England destination of our trip. Rumney ranks somewhere in the Top […]
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Ark Wall, Shelving Rock – into The Adirondacks
New York’s other major climbing area is The Adirondack Mountains, or “Dacks” for short, which is a huge area of land: 6 million acres, and larger than the whole state […]
The Gunks – first stop on the RockAroundTheWorld NE America roadtrip
After a hassling day of picking up our motorhome (RV) and battling the New York City traffic, we bade farewell to the Big Apple… and headed north to arguably the […]
Petit Grepon
For the final adventure of our Colorado trip we came up with the perfect objective for a sweltering hot Labour Day weekend. The South Face of The Petit Grepon is […]
Outer Space, Eldorado Canyon and a memorable birthday
Heading east on our way to a final couple of days of as yet unspecified adventures, we realise that it’s Labour Day weekend – probably the busiest 3 days of […]
Colorado National Monument – Otto’s Route
With The Casual Route on The Diamond and The Scenic Cruise in The Black ticked off, we’d exceeded all expectations for the trip, but still had five days left before […]
The Scenic Cruise
The Scenic Cruise is THE route to do in The Black (unless you are climbing into the 12s) taking the 1,700ft North Chasm View Wall in a dozen or so […]
Comic Relief
There’s hardly anyone climbing in The Black – we’ve only met two teams in 4 days, both from Ouray and both knew Gary Ryan. It says something about the closeness […]
Into The Black
The Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is a legendary adventure climbing destination – over 2,200ft deep and less than 1,000ft across “… no other North American canyon combines […]
Glenwood Canyon and a handy stop-off
Hello Blog followers, and apologies for the gap in posts – we’ve been in The Black and there’s no phone signal (you could say a Black-Out). Normal service on Bill […]
The Diamond, Long’s Peak
Long’s Peak, at 4,340m, is the highest in Rocky Mountain National Park. It’s a shapely enough mountain and draws numerous hikers for the challenging “keyhole route” to its summit, but […]
Bill and Dom’s Excellent Adventure – Episode 11 arrives in Colorado
After an uneventful flight we arrived in Denver just before midnight. With afternoon thunder storms forecasted and a need to get some acclimatisation in before heading up to climb on […]
Ilam Rock, Dovedale
A brief lull in the monsoon and Jake was keen to get out in The Peak. His suggestion was Ilam Rock, Dovedale, partly motivated by an Extreme Rock tick (Easter […]
High Tor and other crags beginning with H
The bizarre weather continues – lashing it down one minute and blue skies the next, with the forecasters struggling to call the difference (just pick the forecast that tells the […]
Twenty Star North Wales Weekend
It was a dodgy forecast, but a Rucksack Club meet at Beudy (our hut in The Pass) is usually worth it for the social anyway – climbing is a bonus. […]
Breaking new ground in The Pass
The post-heatwave monsoon has well and truly arrived, and the only dry cragging available this weekend (at least north of Pembroke) is in North Wales. Even then, you need to […]
A week of Peak Temperatures
With the seemingly inevitable new “hottest day on record” arriving this week, the fickle relationship between climbers and the weather is exposed: “It’s too hot!” There’s no pleasing some people […]
Celestial Twins
This stellar-named crag actually does live up to the billing, at least as far as the setting is concerned. Tucked away in a leafy backwater, just over the Staffordshire border, […]
Saxon on Scafell
Waking up in Wasdale (after celebrating Nick’s Joss Naylor success) to find it wasn’t raining, there really was only one option – a day on Scafell. It’s a pain to […]
Pavey Ark and a big day out
Up in the Lakes to support Nick’s Joss Naylor challenge – a run from Pooley Bridge to Wasdale, traversing 30 summits over a distance of 48 miles and climbing 17,000 […]
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