A week of Peak Temperatures
With the seemingly inevitable new “hottest day on record” arriving this week, the fickle relationship between climbers and the weather is exposed: “It’s too hot!” There’s no pleasing some people […]
Category Archives: Peak
Celestial Twins
This stellar-named crag actually does live up to the billing, at least as far as the setting is concerned. Tucked away in a leafy backwater, just over the Staffordshire border, […]
Many shades of Grit
Not a racey page-turner, but a quick look back at a week’s visits to 5 different grit crags, and the amazing contrast offered by more or less the same rock […]
Climbing Everest (at Stanage) – Inspired by Dave
I teamed up with the great and the good on Sunday to support the “summit push” on a fundraising event to “climb Everest” (or the equivalent height of routes on […]
Moss Rake – a better class of hole in the ground!
Sunny but deceptively cold – the kind of day for a suntrap sports crag to avoid someone getting frozen belaying at the top. Enter yet another re-purposed quarry, with an […]
Summer arrives at Stanage
Fresh back from “Rocking Around the World”, this time the less-explored crags and coast of North West Scotland, it’s always a bit tricky to find the motivation to visit more […]
Cheedale – Plumb Buttress and The Lifts
Andy and I only had a short day available, and each came up with fairly local, reasonably accessible and somewhat escoteric crag suggestion. Andy graciously postponed a visit to Crowden […]
A week in The Peak
Back from Pembroke and Ogmore, what could be a greater contrast than a trip to Windgather? We headed to this friendliest of Peak crags to catch up with Bill and […]
Witches Quarry
In many ways the perfect evening crag – you could belay from the car and it catches the last of the sun (after about 6pm as it faces due north!) […]
High Tor
After a few sessions on the grit I figured I’d earned a bit of respite from having my arse kicked, so Helen, Jim and I decided on a visit to […]
Double Grit Rations
Paul’s visit down from The Lakes injected some much needed enthusiasm into a dull and chilly Friday evening, and we headed to Bamford for a first dose of after-work climbing […]
Stanage Plantation – Back on The Grit
Spring was well and truly in evidence so Andy and I headed for a first taste of Brit outdoor rock for the season. Where else but Stanage, Queen of The […]
Burbage bouldering
Too glorious for the usual Tuesday winter lunchtime wall session: 5C but sunny and still, though I didn’t manage to persuade anyone else that outside climbing was on the cards. […]
Rucksack Club Marsden to Edale
A train strike on Northern Rail, a dodgy ankle and a shortfall of moral fibre all combined to suggest a novel twist to the traditional Club New Year curtain raiser… […]
Happy Christmas (Eve) at Bamford
December held out until near the end to offer up a climbing weather window – until Christmas Eve to be precise. A forecast of sunny and 5C was as good […]
Alcasan – a Stoney classic
In the run up to Christmas you have to grab any chink in the weather to climb outside in the UK, or you might be waiting until March! Friday promised […]
Horseshoe upper tier
Another sunny day and another bolted limestone quarry – at least this time it was genuinely warm in the sun (despite single digit temperatures). Horseshoe isn’t everyone’s cup of tea […]
Stanage Apparent North
After a lot of overnight rain, it was perhaps asking a lot for the forecasted sunny intervals to dry Stanage, and in the event there weren’t any intervals anyway. However, […]
Agden Rocher
There’s a thread on UKC entitled “In praise of Agden Rocher” and it somehow wriggled its way into my consciousness as Jim and I were pondering a venue for a […]
Halloween double header
Back in Blighty, just in time for a sunny autumn snap. Gorgeous on Kinder on Monday … with a touch of frost in the shade and even some icy patches, […]
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