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Grand Alliance for Father’s Day

June 19, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

Black Crag in Borrowdale is a great venue with a wide spread of grades – with the unusual distinction of routes that feature in both Classic Rock and Extreme Rock […]

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Lakes, UK

Pike o’ Blisco – Three Crag Day

April 17, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

After a bit of a Covid-enforced lull in RockAroundTheWorld activity, Sunday was an opportunity for some gentle trad in the company of Stan (also recovering, though a bit further down […]

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Lakes, UK

Black Crag, Pike o’ Blisko

August 29, 2021by Dominic 1 Comment

There are a string of crags, scattered over the southern slopes of Pike o’ Blisko, of which Black Crag is the most extensive. They’re more on the scale of a […]

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Lakes, UK

Destination Dow

August 28, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

Dow Crag is one of the great mountain crags of The Lakes, and benefits from fairly easy access from Langdale (20mins drive) so is a great spot to avoid the […]

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Lakes, UK

Engineer’s Slabs, Gable and a long overdue encounter

August 27, 2021by Dominic 2 Comments

I first leafed through Hard Rock almost 40 years ago – a hallowed tome on Pete’s (my father-in-law to be) bookshelf. At that time, and for quite a few years […]

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Lakes, UK

You know it’s a weird summer when The Lakes is the dry option – Raven Crag and Hodge Close

August 18, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

Jake and I had a couple of days window for a mid-week getaway in Glorious August – if only the weather would play game. Scouring forecasts, options were limited: Even […]

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Lakes, UK

Costa del Silverdale and Runestones – seaside and slate sport

August 1, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

Heading up to the Lakes for Dave’s 60th, with an iffy forecast for the big hills, it seemed like a good opportunity to sample the newly-developed sports climbing on Morecambe […]

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Lakes, UK

Dove take 2 – Extol and Bucket City

July 14, 2021by Dominic 3 Comments

Day 2 of the Dad and Jake Lakes Adventure required a suitable objective to avoid being a damp squib after our Langdale ticking session. The weather warranted a mountain crag […]

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Lakes, UK

Langdale Extreme Rock ticking

July 13, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

Jake’s climbing adventures have taken him to many of the finest crags in England and Wales (and further afield) but apart from a couple of Borrowdale excursions, he’d never climbed […]

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Lakes, UK

Kern Knotts

June 29, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

Kern Knotts is a historic crag, occupying a strategic position above Styhead Pass near the epicentre of the Lake District. It’s about an hour and a quarter of pleasant walking, […]

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Lakes, UK

Raven Crag, Threshthwaite Cove

June 28, 2021by Dominic 1 Comment

This spot had been on my to do list for decades, so I was fully on board when Paul announced it as our objective for the day when I picked […]

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Chasing the Ephemeral

December 5, 2020by Dominic 1 Comment

I signed off my last post with the first snows of winter, and that evening a forecasted high pressure / blue-skies day had my thoughts turning to a quick fix […]

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Lakes, UK

Dovedale Groove

August 9, 2020by Dominic 1 Comment

Here’s a route that’s been on my tick list for 35 years, ever since it appeared in the iconic TV series: Lakeland Rock. This featured Chris Bonington charting the development […]

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Lakes, UK

A Feast on The East

June 25, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

According to Hard Rock: “The East Buttress of Scafell is the finest crag in The Lakes. A great lonely crag. Its walls overhang. Water drips out instead of down.” Quite […]

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Lakes, UK

Saxon on Scafell

July 17, 2019by Dominic 1 Comment

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 […]

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Lakes, UK

Pavey Ark and a big day out

July 13, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

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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Caw Fell

November 25, 2018by Dominic Leave a comment

After celebrations to mark Pete’s 80th a sunny morning was too good an opportunity to miss to blow away the cobwebs. Dave signed up for a jog over Caw Fell, […]

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Steel Knotts Crag

June 26, 2018by Dominic Leave a comment

Justin and Chris invited us to break our journey to Scotland with an afternoon in Borrowdale. With the temperature around 30C we needed a shady crag that wasn’t at the […]

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Armathwaite, Cumbria

May 18, 2018by Dominic Leave a comment

Billed in the Lakes selected climbs guide as “Cumbria’s hidden gem” Armathwaite also has the benefit of being just off the M6 south of Carlisle, and therefore the perfect spot […]

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Borrowdale two-crag day – Quayfoot Buttress and Reecastle 

August 27, 2017by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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