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 […]
Category Archives: The South West
Tucson – Mt Lemmon and The Farmhouse
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 […]
Winslow to Phoenix
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 […]
Flagstaff – from The Peaks to The Pit
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 […]
Canyons Broad and Narrow
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 […]
Up The Creek with Too Few Cams, and More Moab
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 – La Sal Mountains and Colorado River Road
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 and Mentmore
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 […]
Palomas Peak and Pecos
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 […]
Diablo Canyon and White Rock – Light and Shadow
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 […]
Jemez Mountains
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 […]
Redovan Revisited – La Pancha and El Rut
La Pancha is a huge chunk of rock, dominating the skyline above Redovan. We’d visited once before to do one of 120m Vias Largas (multi-pitch adventures) https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2015/01/28/redovan-la-pancha/ and the new […]
French Poudinage
Moving on from the quartzite theme of the last post, it’s time to celebrate another of the diverse rock types on offer in the Durance: Conglomerate (or Poudinage as the […]
Winding down and heading home
Our last couple of days climbing took in some more roadside climbing in Queens Creek. .. A beautiful campsite beneath the Superstition Mountains. .. …and an unpleasant encounter with swarming […]
Lower Devil’s Canyon
The roadside crags in Queens Creek provide convenient, if noisy climbing, but for a real away from it all experience, the nearby Devil’s Canyon is a much more exciting option. […]
Queen Creek
…We reluctantly tore ourselves away from Tucson to start the journey home via a few days climbing in Queens Creek Canyon, not far from Phoenix. Volcanic rock with many pockets […]
Pinhead
Last day on the Mountain, and we teamed up with Eric and the Tucson crew again for a day at Pinhead. Shady conditions made for ideal climbing temperature but Baltic […]
The Ruins
Things brightened up and we had a couple of great days at The Ruins. For a change we had company at the crag – Jeanne chaperoned us one day (plus […]
Squeezing the Lemmon
Mt Lemmon provides a spectacular backdrop for Tucson and some great climbing. With a road running up it from 2, 000ft to 10,000ft you can choose your altitude to match […]
Thanksgiving in Tucson
One compensation for nearing the end of our trip has been the chance to revisit the the magical winter climbing oasis around Tucson, and to catch up with our good […]
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