New ground – Yellow Eyes, Muppet Show & Olympus
After a few days of sun-seeking and blowing off the cobwebs, temps are finally into the teens and we can start “Boldly going…” Though it’s an effort to tear ourselves […]
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Leonidio revisited – Cave of Panagiá
As we bade farewell to Leonidio after a marvellous five-weeks in residence in 2019… … we certainly didn’t expect it to be another five years before a return visit. Covid […]
Greece Odyssey 2024
RockAroundTheWorld has made a couple of previous overland trips to Greece, once taking in Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria on the way… … and once taking the “shortcut” via a ferry […]
Rock Around The World – a review by rockaroundtheworld.co.uk
They say “Great minds think alike”, which was the conclusion that Thierry Souchard and I reached when we found we’d chosen the same four words to headline our efforts to […]
Cap Canaille – the Calanques’ Alter Ego
A few days’ gap in Jake’s shift patterns offered the possibility of a December mini-break to chase some sun and some rock. In a fit of optimism we booked a […]
Calanques – La Grande Candelle
The perils of a December mini-break in the south of France were highlighted when a huge band of rain swept across the country on the first full day of our […]
Texas – Hueco Tanks, Big Bend, Enchanted Rock and Reimer’s Ranch
With just over a week to go before our plane home we faced the potentially dull prospect of driving a thousand miles across Texas. The first leg of our trip […]
Tucson – Mt Lemmon and The Farmhouse
Despite being in southern Arizona, in the middle of the Sonoran Desert, Tucson can lay claim to being a year-round climbing paradise. The secret to this seeming climactic contradiction is […]
Winslow to Phoenix
If Flagstaff’s claim to fame is a name-check in “Route 66” then it’s near neighbour to the east, Winslow, can thank The Eagles for its notoriety (and perhaps its continued […]
Flagstaff – from The Peaks to The Pit
There’s a tonne of climbing around Flagstaff, the epicentre of the North Arizona scene. Our previous attempt to explore some of it, at the same time of year almost twenty […]
Canyons Broad and Narrow
The cold snap in Moab gave us the nudge to join the great snowbird migration south to warmer climes (and climbs) so we set the sat nav for Arizona. First […]
Up The Creek with Too Few Cams, and More Moab
We’ve been lucky enough to visit most of the iconic American climbing areas, and many others that should be more widely known – have a browse through here if you […]
Utah – La Sal Mountains and Colorado River Road
Utah is king of the desert – at least in terms of stupendous sandstone geology. Arizona might boast The Grand Canyon, but Utah lays claim to Bryce, Zion, Canyonlands and […]
The Box and Mentmore
The Box is a box canyon of rhyolite, near the town of Socorro with about 300 routes – mostly sport. The contrast of the red/brown rock and bullet blue sky […]
Palomas Peak and Pecos
Pecos River Canyon, about half an hour north of Santa Fe, gets a name check in the title of the Jemez Rock guide and sounded worth checking out. It’s a […]
Diablo Canyon and White Rock – Light and Shadow
White Rock is the overspill dormer town for its much more famous neighbour, Los Alamos. This incongruous outpost of the US Department of Energy brings Silicon Valley shininess to the […]
Jemez Mountains
The Jemez Mountains lie to the west of Los Alamos and offer a great range of accessible, high altitude cragging in some stunning locations. We started our exploration to the […]
El Rito – Cobbles!
El Rito is one of New Mexico’s premier sports venues, and unique in the State being composed of conglomerate. Regular Rockaroundtheworld readers will know we have a fondness for a […]
Taos Part Two – Red River, John Dunn Bridge and Tres Piedras
North of Taos you get into skiing country, though it’s hard to imagine with temperatures still nudging 30 at the end of September at almost 9,000ft. We headed to the […]
New Mexico Road Trip – First Stop Taos
With direct flights from UK to USA in short supply post-covid, we launched our tour of the SW States in Houston, Texas. On arrival it was tempting to say “… […]
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