The Diamond and The Black – Lockdown slideshow
With slightly spooky foresight I managed to launch Season 2 of The Rucksack Club’s Lockdown Slideshows to coincide with the beginning of Lockdown 3 in the UK. Something tells me […]
With slightly spooky foresight I managed to launch Season 2 of The Rucksack Club’s Lockdown Slideshows to coincide with the beginning of Lockdown 3 in the UK. Something tells me […]
You can find “Previously on The Big Trip” installment 1 here: https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2020/06/22/rockaroundtheworld-retrospective-the-big-trip-part-1-around-the-baltic-in-80-days/ or just launch in and join us as we land in Denver. After almost three months in our […]
For the final adventure of our Colorado trip we came up with the perfect objective for a sweltering hot Labour Day weekend. The South Face of The Petit Grepon is […]
Heading east on our way to a final couple of days of as yet unspecified adventures, we realise that it’s Labour Day weekend – probably the busiest 3 days of […]
With The Casual Route on The Diamond and The Scenic Cruise in The Black ticked off, we’d exceeded all expectations for the trip, but still had five days left before […]
The Scenic Cruise is THE route to do in The Black (unless you are climbing into the 12s) taking the 1,700ft North Chasm View Wall in a dozen or so […]
There’s hardly anyone climbing in The Black – we’ve only met two teams in 4 days, both from Ouray and both knew Gary Ryan. It says something about the closeness […]
The Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is a legendary adventure climbing destination – over 2,200ft deep and less than 1,000ft across “… no other North American canyon combines […]
Hello Blog followers, and apologies for the gap in posts – we’ve been in The Black and there’s no phone signal (you could say a Black-Out). Normal service on Bill […]
Long’s Peak, at 4,340m, is the highest in Rocky Mountain National Park. It’s a shapely enough mountain and draws numerous hikers for the challenging “keyhole route” to its summit, but […]
After an uneventful flight we arrived in Denver just before midnight. With afternoon thunder storms forecasted and a need to get some acclimatisation in before heading up to climb on […]