East Woodburn
At the risk of sounding like a stuck record, this was another chilly, windy day. Time to put the East Woodburn plan into operation – a south facing crag, 5 […]
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Great Wanny – Great Connies (not!)
More chilly weather (about 10C) and a howling northwesterly meant that a north facing crag was hardly the ideal option. However, Great Wanny is “perhaps the most impressive crag in […]
Scot Crag Scugdale
Heading up to visit Jake in Newcastle we break the journey at Scugdale at the northern end of the North Yorks Moors. Not an inspiring name but an absolutely lovely […]
Gogarth Main Cliff… and the express elevator
Another dodgy forecast prompted the first visit of the year to the hallowed crags of Holyhead for guaranteed sunshine, which duly greeted us as we crossed the Menai Straits. Lucky […]
Dyserth Castle Quarry
The usual trawl through cragging locations on the Met Office weather app made pretty sobering reading: damp, dull, chilly. The only prospect of climbing was on the North Wales coast […]
New Mills Torrs
What a difference a week makes – another Wednesday evening meet on quarried grit, but a world of difference in the weather! From 24C down to about 10C and from […]
Beudy Birthday Bash
It’s the 70th Anniversary of the Rucksack Club’s acquisition of our Llanberis hut, Beudy Mawr, and there’s a major gathering to celebrate. For once, the weather gods are smiling and […]
Stanage Spring Sunshine
As the heatwave continues it’s not surprising that Stanage is looking busy despite it being a Friday. High Neb is humming. First time on the hallowed Grit this year so […]
A jolly day at Giggleswick
Grabbing the weather window we headed to Giggleswick South – probably not everyone’s idea of the perfect crag but handy as a meeting point between the Lakes, south Yorkshire and […]
Summer arrives at Hobson Moor
Got lucky again with the weather – REALLY lucky this time! After a shocking winter and early spring, and the washout of the first two Rucksack Club Wednesday evening meets, […]
Daydreams – Mewsford Point
Daydreams is yet another route that’s been on my tick-list for decades – the last of the Pembroke Extreme Rock routes outstanding (as Return of the Natives now lies on […]
Kings of the Wild Frontier (Zawn)
Mother Carey’s and the nearby Frontier Zawn are near Lydstep and completely outside the MoD firing range, as well as being largely unaffected by bird bans (apart from StarGate – […]
Trevallen, St. Govans and Mowing Word
Pembroke climbing is a logistical nightmare – so much amazing climbing with so many conflicting things stopping you from doing it! Tides – these are at least very predictable, but […]
Stennis Head and a reminder why they call it “Adventure Climbing”
Jake had a few days of a late Easter holiday spare, so much time was spent scouring weather apps to see where would offer the best scope for climbing. The […]
Higgar Tor and a bit of “head pointing”
If you are looking for dry rock in The Peak then Higgar Tor has the advantage of being hideously overhanging. Of course, that does come with the downside that all […]
Spring in The Peak
Back in Blighty and at least “the beast from the East” has headed back. In fact, Thursday is positively spring like, and even though we’re only just off the boat […]
ThauracÂ
This is a great set of crags a few km from Ganges, about 50km north of Montpellier and the Med. The area’s main claim to fame is the show cave […]
Vingrau, Tauteval and Opoul – Route de la Grimpe
Warning – this post contains no actual climbing! We decided to spend a rest day getting a bit of the drive north done and recceing the crags around Vingrau. This […]
MontgronyÂ
This has been a year of climbing in spectacular spots, high up in the hills and accessed only thanks to centuries of work in constructing snaking tracks to access a […]
BergaÂ
We’d been hoping to use the spring weather towards the end of our trip to explore some of the many cragging options nearer the Pyrenees. After a long wait, we […]
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