Rucksack Club Gogarth Meet
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 […]
Category Archives: Wales
Best of North Wales (from Beudy Mawr – the Best Hut in North Wales!)
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 […]
Rhoscolyn
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 […]
Pembroke Rucksack Club Meet – Part 2
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! […]
Pembroke Rucksack Club Meet – Part I
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 […]
Upper Pen Trewyn – Sunshine by the Seaside
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 […]
Tremadog – Cream, Vulcan and Falcon
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 […]
Cloggy Revisited
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 […]
Gogarth 2021
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 […]
Cloggy
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 […]
Craig Yr Ysfa
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 – […]
St David’s South – Carreg-y-Barcud and Velvet Wall
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 […]
St David’s Head – Craig Coetan and South Buttress
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 […]
Range West
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 […]
Mother Carey’s and No Man’s Zawn – a Pan Odyssey
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 […]
Range East
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 […]
Back on Hallowed Ground – First Gogarth Trip in 18 months!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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