Craig y Forwen
The coat tails of Storm Ellen were flapping around Britain, bringing lashing rain, as Andy and I set off for the crag on Saturday morning. The wipers were still on […]
Category Archives: Wales
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 […]
Swordfish – Stackpole Head
There’s really no excuse for visiting Pembroke in August and going to a crag that isn’t bird banned the rest of the year. Stackpole Head is one of the major […]
Deep Throat and a Monster Whipper
That got your attention! But rest assured that RockAroundTheWorld hasn’t morphed into a sleaze site; the title accurately reflects the highlights of the first couple of days of another visit […]
Giltar Slabs – Penally East
We only discovered the climbing around Penally last year, so had plenty more of this quiet Pembrokeshire backwater to explore. Only a mile or so east of Mother Carey’s, Penally […]
A Chance Encounter with the hardest HVS in the world, and more Mowing Word
Something old and something new for today’s itinerary – the boys fancied Mowing Word which we were happy to go along with despite a few recent visits ( https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2019/04/18/mowing-word-2/ https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2019/07/01/stand-by-to-boogie-more-mowing-word-fun/) […]
There’ll be a welcome at the seaside – Pembroke’s open for business!
With restrictions easing in Scotland and Wales we had a choice to make for the next stage of getting RockAroundTheWorld back on the road. In the end, the forecast made […]
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 […]
Twenty Star North Wales Weekend
It was a dodgy forecast, but a Rucksack Club meet at Beudy (our hut in The Pass) is usually worth it for the social anyway – climbing is a bonus. […]
Breaking new ground in The Pass
The post-heatwave monsoon has well and truly arrived, and the only dry cragging available this weekend (at least north of Pembroke) is in North Wales. Even then, you need to […]
The Lobster Pot and Morfa Bychan – two contrasting crags
In search of some steepness, we planned to leave north Pembroke and head for Gower via an exploratory visit to Morfa Bychan on the Carmarthenshire coast. The only flaw being […]
Carreg-y-Barcud
This is the undoubtedly the epicentre of North Pembroke climbing – dozens of high quality routes packed into not much more than a couple of hundred metres of bullet-hard sandstone, […]
Porth-y-Ffynnon – a walk on the slabbier side
With the departure of the keen team (a.k.a. Steve and James) we were left to our own devices and took the opportunity to escape the unrelenting steepness of South Pembroke […]
St Govans East
It’s hard to understand why St Govans East is so much less popular than its more celebrated neighbour – for the sake of another 100m walk you might well have […]
Penally – Pembroke off the beaten track
Having made a Pembroke Pilgrimage at least annually for the last 30 years or so, there aren’t too many unexplored areas for us, especially ones that aren’t affected by bird […]
Sunny Scareys
Another favourite spot to avoid bombs and bird bans, so no surprise to find a number of teams with the same idea of a visit to Mother Carey’s. Here’s Helen […]
Stand by to Boogie – more Mowing Word fun
Summer has finally arrived and Helen and I are back in Pembroke, this time in the company of Steve and James. It’s mid week and outside the school holidays, so […]
Rucksack Club Gogarth Meet 2019
Amidst a fairly unspectacular summer, the forecast for the Rucksack Club’s annual pilgrimage to Gogarth wasn’t looking particularly auspicious. I’ve been organising this gathering for almost 20 years, and not […]
Craig Arthur
A grey Saturday to be followed by a grim Sunday prompted a detour to Craig Arthur on the way to the Rucksack Club’s hut in The Pass for the annual […]
Big Family Gathering on Gower
We spent most of my childhood holidays on Gower (not THE Gower, apparently…) enjoying the world-class beaches and benign microclimate, whilst blissfully unaware of the wealth of climbing available under […]
