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 […]
Category Archives: UK
Two sides of Kinder
Saturday saw the annual chance to blow away the cobwebs on the Rucksack Club Marden to Edale meet. Having rejected the idea of “The Double” I’d settled (guiltily) into bed […]
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 […]
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 […]
Latheronwheel
Second time lucky, and after a drizzling start, we enjoyed a great day on Latheronwheel. Even the approach is spectacular, down an easy gully to a dry zawn amidst four […]
John o’Groats and Duncanby Head
We planned to climb at Latheronwheel (trad seacliff recommended by some locals we met at Creag Bheag) but it was showery. I went for a recce anyway… … and got […]
Creag Bheag
After our rain-check recce a couple of days before, we were treated to a spectacular day at Creag Bheag. What a great spot! About 20 routes from 4+ to 6b+, […]
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