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Rucksack Club Gogarth Meet

June 26, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

Helen and I have been organising the Rucksack Club’s annual pilgrimage to Gogarth for over 20 years (a terrifying thought in itself!) After the “virtual” zoom version in 2020, and […]

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Rucksack Club, UK, Wales

Best of North Wales (from Beudy Mawr – the Best Hut in North Wales!)

June 14, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

With a bit of a mixed forecast, Wales was looking like the best of a bad bunch for an extended weekend with Paul. As a bonus it meant we could […]

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UK, Wales

Rhoscolyn

May 14, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

Regular readers (both of you!) will know that Gogarth is my favourite stomping ground, so unsurprisingly I’m gradually running out of things that I haven’t done or aren’t too terrifying […]

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UK, Wales

Pembroke Rucksack Club Meet – Part 2

May 8, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

The “late shift” of Martin, Dave, Helen, Jim and Claire arrived on Monday to keep the buzz going for another week, bringing a welcome improvement in the weather with them! […]

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Rucksack Club, UK, Wales

Pembroke Rucksack Club Meet – Part I

May 2, 2022by Dominic 4 Comments

Jack’s official meet started on the Thursday before the Bank Holiday weekend, so Paul, Jake and I took advantage of the extended window to beat the inevitable traffic and get […]

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Rucksack Club, UK, Wales

Upper Pen Trewyn – Sunshine by the Seaside

September 26, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

Llandudno looked like the best bet to escape the rain elsewhere in North Wales, and we woke up parked at the top of the Great Orme to find we’d finally […]

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UK, Wales

Tremadog – Cream, Vulcan and Falcon

September 25, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

A gloomy forecast across the UK, with occasional chinks of dryness had Jake and me heading for North Wales in hope rather than expectation. Even the usual safe bet of […]

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UK, Wales

Cloggy Revisited

September 7, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

Having polished off the Lakes section of Hard Rock over the Bank Holiday weekend, the ticking focus moved on to the remaining Welsh routes – Vember and Slanting Slab; both […]

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UK, Wales

Gogarth 2021

July 4, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

Helen and I have organised a Rucksack Club meet at Gogarth every year for the last two decades, or at least we had done until last year when we had […]

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Rucksack Club, UK, Wales

Cloggy

June 4, 2021by Dominic 3 Comments

A week without rain in Llanberis is a bit of a rarity, but signals one thing to the Cloggy aficionado – it might be a “in”! A scan of UKC […]

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UK, Wales

Craig Yr Ysfa

June 3, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

After plenty of seacliff action, the call of the mountains beckoned, and with the extended dry spell and warmer temperatures, James’s enthusiasm was the final piece of the jigsaw – […]

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UK, Wales

St David’s South – Carreg-y-Barcud and Velvet Wall

May 27, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

In stark contrast to the gabbro granite on St David’s Head itself https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2021/05/26/st-davids-head-craig-coetan-and-south-buttress/ The climbing along the coastline to the south of the St David’s (the UK’s smallest city, if […]

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UK, Wales

St David’s Head – Craig Coetan and South Buttress

May 26, 2021by Dominic 1 Comment

More rain on Sunday, with the weather system blowing in from the Atlantic, so we had the idea to attempt an outflanking manoeuvre and head to North Pembroke – we […]

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UK, Wales

Range West

May 22, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

It’s been an undeniably dreadful year, so it seems almost perverse to flag up the occasional positive from the pandemic, like neighbourliness, vaccines and birdsong. There have also been huge […]

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UK, Wales

Mother Carey’s and No Man’s Zawn – a Pan Odyssey

May 18, 2021by Dominic 2 Comments

Regular blog followers will know I’m a bit of a ticker (feel free to insert the word “sad”) and I’ve been gradually working my way through the routes featured in […]

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UK, Wales

Range East

May 17, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

May is a great window for a trip to Pembroke (apart from being peak firing season!) Jake and Leah managed to get a few days off so we hatched a […]

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UK, Wales

Back on Hallowed Ground – First Gogarth Trip in 18 months!

April 17, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

It goes without saying that the interruption of my climbing exploits is pretty small beer in amongst the tragedy and tumult of the last year. However, the fact that 2020 […]

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UK, Wales

Sunny Intervals

December 17, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Peak, UK, Wales

Craig y Forwen

August 22, 2020by Dominic 2 Comments

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 […]

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UK, Wales

Limestone pick n mix

August 15, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

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 […]

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Peak, UK, Wales

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