Karlukovo cave – Wow!
After a couple of weeks and a couple of thousand miles we’ve climbed on almost a dozen crags in five countries. Enjoyable routes in often great settings, but some way […]
Author Archives: Dominic
More St. Trinity Rocks
Having reccied the approach, and with an overnight weather front dropping the temperature by 10C, we went for another look at St Trinity Rocks. First stop was the twin caves […]
In to Bulgaria and climbing around Veliko Tarnovo
Leaving Brasov we enjoyed pre-Alpine scenery over the Bucegi mountains before dropping down to the plains and relative dullness of southern Romania around Bucharest. The Bucharest ring road was a […]
Climbing in Transylvania around Brasov
It’s less than 300km from Turda to Brasov, but around a 5 hour drive. You just have to get into the slower paced groove, rejoice in the average trip mpg […]
Rimetea
Just 30 minutes from Turda is the pretty village of Rimetea, a former Hungarian mining community which has been the subject of major renovation of its classical houses and historic […]
Turda gorge – into Romania
After a stopover at a thermal “resort” just before the border, we crossed into Romania and made the 4 hour drive to Turda. The first half of the journey was […]
Tardos – a taste of Hungarian climbing
Hungary is pretty flat – plenty of pretty green rolling hills, but not a lot of rock or places to climb. However, we were passing through and determined to get […]
Thalhofergrat
The poor weather seems to be following us, but we’re just keeping our noses in front. Vienna is set for a few days of rain, but there’s a brief window […]
Weisenstein
Possibly the ultimate crag for a crap day. 2 mins from the road and with climbing steep enough to stay dry in the rain. Perfect for a few routes on […]
Frankenjura – Hoher Reute
24 hours after leaving home we’re camped at Gasthof Eichler in the heart of the Frankenjura, about 700 miles from home (with a bit of help from the Hull to […]
Flytrap on Gogarth North Stack – birthday adventure
Miserable forecast pretty much everywhere – it shouldn’t be allowed to rain on your birthday! Luckily, there’s always Gogarth! Not that Jake and I were feeling too optimistic as we […]
Running Hill Pits
We caused great consternation by confessing that this was our first visit to The Pits. The local Greenfield cognesenti couldn’t understand how we’d managed 25 years in the vicinity without […]
Borrowdale two-crag day – Quayfoot Buttress and Reecastle
With Paul just back from France and term starting next week we had a narrow window for a catch up and a climb, which seemed to coincide with a dry […]
Some two-wheeled fun
I upgraded my mountain bike a couple of years ago, but found it really didn’t do much to improve my MTBing – I think the problem was that I never […]
Witches’ Quarry
A very fine summer evening (at least in the context of 2017 which has stretched the definition of the world “summer” to new territory!) Dry and midge-free cragging and even […]
Gogarth Red Wall
It’s raining everywhere apart from Holyhead (as always), the bird ban is over for the year and Stan’s out – we’re off to Red Wall (of course!) Trying to find […]
Castle Naze
Forecasts suggested that a decent start to the day would turn to showers, not ideal for the first Rucksack Club evening meet we’d managed to be around for in ages. […]
Trowgill
With Sunday having the only decent forecast for a week, we hauled aching bodies into action for a trip to Yorkshire. Steve’s suggestion of Trowgill being better than any inspiration […]
Elephant Rock
The reason for heading over to the Angus coast was to sample the different flavour of sports climbing available on the sea cliffs there. We picked Elephant Rock for its […]
More Moy
Heading back south we stopped in for some more Moy – a bit of unfinished business from the week before. Helen put in a really determined effort to lead Fighting […]
