Texas – Hueco Tanks, Big Bend, Enchanted Rock and Reimer’s Ranch
With just over a week to go before our plane home we faced the potentially dull prospect of driving a thousand miles across Texas. The first leg of our trip […]
With just over a week to go before our plane home we faced the potentially dull prospect of driving a thousand miles across Texas. The first leg of our trip […]
Despite being in southern Arizona, in the middle of the Sonoran Desert, Tucson can lay claim to being a year-round climbing paradise. The secret to this seeming climactic contradiction is […]
If Flagstaff’s claim to fame is a name-check in “Route 66” then it’s near neighbour to the east, Winslow, can thank The Eagles for its notoriety (and perhaps its continued […]
There’s a tonne of climbing around Flagstaff, the epicentre of the North Arizona scene. Our previous attempt to explore some of it, at the same time of year almost twenty […]
The cold snap in Moab gave us the nudge to join the great snowbird migration south to warmer climes (and climbs) so we set the sat nav for Arizona. First […]
We’ve been lucky enough to visit most of the iconic American climbing areas, and many others that should be more widely known – have a browse through here if you […]
Utah is king of the desert – at least in terms of stupendous sandstone geology. Arizona might boast The Grand Canyon, but Utah lays claim to Bryce, Zion, Canyonlands and […]
The Box is a box canyon of rhyolite, near the town of Socorro with about 300 routes – mostly sport. The contrast of the red/brown rock and bullet blue sky […]
Pecos River Canyon, about half an hour north of Santa Fe, gets a name check in the title of the Jemez Rock guide and sounded worth checking out. It’s a […]
White Rock is the overspill dormer town for its much more famous neighbour, Los Alamos. This incongruous outpost of the US Department of Energy brings Silicon Valley shininess to the […]
The Jemez Mountains lie to the west of Los Alamos and offer a great range of accessible, high altitude cragging in some stunning locations. We started our exploration to the […]
El Rito is one of New Mexico’s premier sports venues, and unique in the State being composed of conglomerate. Regular Rockaroundtheworld readers will know we have a fondness for a […]
North of Taos you get into skiing country, though it’s hard to imagine with temperatures still nudging 30 at the end of September at almost 9,000ft. We headed to the […]
With direct flights from UK to USA in short supply post-covid, we launched our tour of the SW States in Houston, Texas. On arrival it was tempting to say “… […]
If you missed the first three installments of our Big Trip Retrospective, you can follow our blast around Eastern Europe and Scandinavia here: Europe , our trip across the Rockies here: Rockies and […]
When people ask me “How did you get into Big Wall climbing?” they’re invariably surprised to hear that my entire apprenticeship took place over a couple of hours in Hobson […]
Having taken a solemn pledge to chill and enjoy the last couple of days of our trip, we set about constructing an itinerary that would take in some decent climbing […]
Primrose Dihedral had been on my radar as perhaps THE must-do Desert Tower, ever since reports of ascents in the 90s from returning conquering heroes, including Martin, Mike and John. […]
There’s quite a lot of concern in the desert climbing community about climbing on sandstone after rain – it’s a fragile rock, and gets significantly weaker when wet, when especially […]
After fleeing a rain-lashed Zion, we headed east towards Moab for the second phase of the adventure. A small detour gave us the opportunity to get even more value for […]