El Chorro and a first day blast at Las Encantadas
We’ve taken a break from the Peak District winter climbing season for a week’s Dad and Jake trip to El Chorro. 4.30am alarm for an early Jet2.com flight had us […]
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Dovestones Quarry – looking for the big freeze
Heavy snow and subzero temperatures over the last few days – it’s certainly wintery, but would there be anything in condition. Andy’s optimism encouraged me and Tom along for the […]
Lancashire and Yorkshire Bouldering
An evening of pulling on plastic and a yellow circular icon on tomorrow’s forecast had Andy and me making plans to capitalise on the last of the high pressure. I […]
Horseshoe fix
With blue skies and Baltic conditions it was too nice to join the Tuesday lunchtime team at Stockport Wall but a bit chilly for much else. Time for a first […]
Sutherland and a first taste of winter
31 years ago, a bunch of work colleagues had a weekend away in The Pass, and we’ve got together on the same weekend pretty much every year since (none of […]
A gorgeous day at Gogarth – aren’t they all?
Back in Blighty in time to head along to the Manchester University Mountaineering Club (MUMC) and Rucksack Club joint meet at our hut in The Pass. Inevitable drizzle on Saturday […]
Highlights from a Balkan Odyssey
Back home from our Balkan Odyssey, and a chance to reflect on some of the highlights of a two-month, 10,000km climbing road-trip through Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria to […]
Effels, Nideggen
For a final night we were looking for somewhere within striking distance of Rotterdam (3 hours or so), not too far out of our way, and with maybe the chance […]
Burgfelsen, Lofenstein
We spent a peaceful but very expensive (€24!) night at a campsite in Steyr (an odd spot which seemed to double up as the boathouse and launch ramp for the […]
Jammerwandl, Baden
A fairly uneventful trip across Hungary saw us into Austria by mid day and parking on the outskirts of Baden a couple of hours later. Jammerwandl is a somewhat urban […]
Baile Herculane
The spa resort of Baile Herculane is probably the finest climbing area in Romania – Petzl presumably thought so, as it featured on their last RocTrip. We arrived late and […]
Serres and journeying north
We woke to rain for our last morning at Camping Semeli at Leonidio – no last sunrise over the Myrtoon Sea; no last breakfast on the beach; but fewer regrets […]
Return trip to Mars
On arriving back at the campsite in Leonidio after our Kyparissi excursion we’d spotted a fellow GB plated campervan and were surprised to find that our friends Andy and Wendy […]
Theos
Another gorgeous day with just a hint of a breeze to make some sunny climbing tolerable. Theos is a series of sectors running rightwards from Yellow Wall and making up […]
Hot Rock
Another one for a cooler day (I guess the clue’s in the name). Hot Rock is on the far left end of Kokkinovrachos, and accessed by an easy 10mins mostly […]
Skiadianiko
We’d gazed down on this major crag from the lofty viewpoint of Elona, a week or so earlier. Clearly in full sun with what looks like a major traipse. A […]
Mad Wall and Yellow Wall
With a big storm arriving just in time to force a much-needed rest-day, we seized the opportunity of the cloud cover the following day to visit one of the many […]
Kyparissi – Kastraki
We spent a peaceful night high above Kyparissi at the parking for sector Psilovrachos, with the clearing storm painting the skies and sea red We awoke to find just how […]
Vlychada
Yet another tortuous drive south leads from Kyparissi village up past the higher crags and over a coll at about 700m before winding through a couple of mountain villages until […]
Kyparissi – sector Watermill
We decided to take a side trip to Kyparissi, about 15km further down the coast. That’s 15km as the crow flies, but about 40km by road (and that’s a huge […]
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