Ilam Rock Paraclimbing
It’s almost 2 years since I posted about supporting Michelle to fulfil her goal of climbing The Old Man of Hoy – a stretch target and bucket-list dream for most […]
Category Archives: Peak
Troy Quarry
I caught up with Hamish for a short afternoon hit after a morning of torrential rain. Handy location, fast drying and surprisingly scenic – it’s well worth a visit as […]
Eggselent Easter week
The first tentative (but irreversible?!) steps out of Lockdown were perfectly timed to coincide with the clocks changing (OK, that’s pretty predictable!) and another great week of sunny weather (who […]
So long Lockdown
The “roadmap” has finally yielded the beginning of the end of the latest Lockdown (was it the 2nd or 3rd, and more importantly will it be the last?) Time for […]
Sun Rock 2021
Ever since our kids started school, which is over 20 years ago now, we’ve observed the tradition of a February half term SunRock trip. It’s the perfect window in the […]
It’s “IN”
After a few days of high pressure and fine, freezing but dry days, the jungle drums started with rumours of the news that every Peak-based climber is waiting for. No […]
Sunny Intervals
I got one of those “your memories on Facebook from 4 years ago” notifications the other day… It had me scratching my head. Where was that shirtless climbing under stunning […]
Lockdown 2.0
Not the November we’d planned (which would have involved chasing the sun around Europe’s finest climbing spots!) but you’ve got to make the most of what you’ve got… Having The […]
Beeston Tor
Where in Provence are we?… Okay, it’s a trick question of course, and the title is a bit of a giveaway, but Beeston is one of the few bits of […]
Limestone pick n mix
I’ve deliberately dialed down the blogging of visits to familiar “holes in the ground” – there’s only so much you can say about Harpur Hill and the Stoney crags, and […]
Electric Quarry, Stoney
If you’ve driven through Stoney any time since lockdown you can’t fail to have witnessed the huge “spike” in popularity of the bolt-clipping hereabouts. Every lay-by, pull-off and scrape on […]
Virtual Gogarth Meet and Quiz
Every June, for almost 20 years, Helen and I have organised The Gogarth Meet. Despite my best efforts, and the climbing on The Best Crag In The World, this has […]
Curbar – a John Allen homage
Jake is back home for a while and keen to get some Peak climbing in the bag, and a fairly arbitrary decision saw us pick Curbar for a rather damp […]
Kinder Northern Edges – a different Kinda Grit
Ashop Edge, on the north side of the Kinder plateau, is something of a connoisseurs crag. Rarely in condition, it features a number of routes that (when “in”) would warrant […]
Climbing along the Pennine Way
Another crag conundrum – where to climb in a heatwave during the barmy busyness of a lockdown-loosened Bank Holiday / half-term week. Helen and I found two solutions at either […]
Social distancing in a post-Industrial hole in the ground
We nipped into Harpur Hill for a bit of lockdown-loosened cragging and were amazed to find the place rammed – not with climbers (though we did bump into Chris and […]
Lockdown loosening
It’s hard to believe that I haven’t set hand or foot to rock since 20th March – almost 8 weeks and the longest gap in my outdoor climbing in certainly […]
Running Like a Climber – A trip back into the RockAroundTheWorld archives
We’re approaching 6 weeks into lockdown and the lack of climbing is starting to tell. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and I briefly rekindled my running career, only to […]
Run-Around-The-House
Two weeks into “lock-down” (in the UK that is, three weeks if you count our lock-down escapes in Spain and then France) and it’s the longest time that I haven’t […]
Back in Blighty and a Birthday Blast for Jake
I’m going to preface this blog post with a disclaimer, given the amount of vitriol that seems to be propagating on climbing fora and in the media, and also to […]
