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RockAroundTheWorld Retrospective – The 2004-5 BIG TRIP Part 3: California – Big Trees to J Tree via The Big Stone

November 19, 2020by Dominic 3 Comments

If you missed the first couple of installments of our Big Trip Retrospective, you can follow our blast around Eastern Europe and Scandinavia here: https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2020/06/22/rockaroundtheworld-retrospective-the-big-trip-part-1-around-the-baltic-in-80-days/ and our trip across the […]

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California, USA

North America Wall revisited – The Rucksack Club’s first virtual slideshow

April 10, 2020by Dominic

In these difficult times it’s really important to stay connected even if we can’t meet physically, so it was a great privilege to team up with Bill to deliver The […]

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California, Rucksack Club, USA

North America Wall – Trip Report

August 27, 2018by Dominic 11 Comments

This could be subtitled ‘Episode Ten in Bill and Dom’s Excellent Adventures’ after five previous trips to Yosemite, and further adventures in The Alps, Dolomites, Taghia (Morocco) and Riglos (Spain). […]

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California, USA

Dike Wall, Mammoth Lakes

August 26, 2018by Dominic Leave a comment

After an exhausting day of being tourists it seemed much easier to just go climbing again for our last day – but nothing too stressy! The criteria were: not far […]

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California, USA

… And Relax

August 25, 2018by Dominic 3 Comments

The beers, shower and pizza (plus a dose of ice cream) were every bit as wonderful as anticipated – and the luxury of a humble apple served as a reminder […]

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California, USA

Topping out on NA Wall

August 23, 2018by Dominic 5 Comments

After an only moderately comfortable, but historically resonant (Robbins, Frost, Choinard and Pratt slept here – it’s like a climbing hall of fame!) night in The Igloo … it was […]

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A night in The Igloo

August 22, 2018by Dominic 1 Comment

The Cyclops Eye is big – REALLY BIG! Must be over 200ft in diameter and we spent much of the day circumnavigating it. Pitch 20 is a soaring traverse up […]

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A night in The Cyclops Eye!

August 21, 2018by Dominic 1 Comment

We had a comfortable night on the ledge in The Black Dihedral, though the slight phosphorescence in the quartz intrusions conjured all sorts of interesting faces and features in the […]

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Back on track and a bivvy in The Black Dihedral!

August 20, 2018by Dominic 1 Comment

Straight out of bed and into a 5.8 squeeze chimney – great way to start the day. Happily, pitch 11 of NAW is nothing like the horror show of The […]

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California, USA

Trundling gently up the West Coast

August 19, 2018by Dominic 3 Comments

What a great place to wake up… Earlish get away and the climbing is quite involved from the off. Pitch 6 has you speeding up a bolt ladder – easy […]

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California, USA

… And they’re off!

August 18, 2018by Dominic 1 Comment

A leisurely start followed by an afternoon of toil. A major packathon had neatly sorted food, water and beer for 4 nights (after a quick excursion to the store to […]

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California, USA

Gone fixin’

August 17, 2018by Dominic 3 Comments

After yesterday’s snafu, we at least knew where the actual start of NAW was (the other “unmistakable” triple cracks with a roof, about 50m right of SOD). We’d also blown […]

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California, USA

A bit of a SOD

August 16, 2018by Dominic 3 Comments

The smoke is clearing in The Valley and folks are arriving. We were up early with the intention of “fixing” – doing the first 4 pitches of North America Wall […]

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Another episode in Bill and Dom’s Excellent Adventures

August 15, 2018by Dominic 1 Comment

Bill and I had booked flights to SFO a few weeks in advance, for a planned trip to Yosemite to climb North America Wall on El Cap. Subsequently, the “Ferguson […]

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California, USA

Snake Dike

September 20, 2015by Dominic 2 Comments

A fitting end to the trip. We made the 4 hour walk to the base of the route and enoyed a spectacular bivvy with awesome stars. A little chilly at […]

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California, USA

Super speedy on “Super Slide”

September 16, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

More showers yesterday, but Tash and I managed to grab a dryish interlude for a fast ascent of Super Slide, a 5 pitch 5.9 on Royal Arches. Up and down […]

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California, USA

Chance of showers

September 15, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Turned a bit changeable here so we’ve been cragging. Moody sunlight over East Buttress of Middle Cathedral, partly caused by the smoke from the wildfire …and a couple of pitches […]

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Yosemite Birthday

September 15, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

We celebrated Tashy’s 22nd Birthday with a variety of fine Yosemite eating experiences. First up a short stack of blueberry pancakes in the Lodge Then a couple of routes followed […]

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California, USA

Tashy’s first BigWall

Featuredby Dominic 2 Comments

Topped out in fine style yesterday and were back in Camp 4 for 6 pm and in the shower soon after. Monster pizza and even bigger Margarita followed before a […]

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California, USA

Camp 4

September 10, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

We managed to move onto Camp 4 a day early and all got on the same site. Miracle! That means we’re not going to have to move again until we […]

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