Black Beauty – Lower Eagle crag
The south side of the Afantinzar valley is dominated by Lower Eagle crag – about 200m high and a kilometer wide. Shady for most of the day, we’d watched it […]
Alcasan – a Stoney classic
In the run up to Christmas you have to grab any chink in the weather to climb outside in the UK, or you might be waiting until March! Friday promised […]
Caw Fell
After celebrations to mark Pete’s 80th a sunny morning was too good an opportunity to miss to blow away the cobwebs. Dave signed up for a jog over Caw Fell, […]
Horseshoe upper tier
Another sunny day and another bolted limestone quarry – at least this time it was genuinely warm in the sun (despite single digit temperatures). Horseshoe isn’t everyone’s cup of tea […]
Llanymynech
Another day promising blue skies after the mist has lifted prompted another trip along the M55 to Clwyd limestone. Andy and I made an early start to make the best […]
Independence Quarry
Another contribution to Clwyd limestone by the irrepressible Gary Gibson, Independence Quarry sits at the east end of the escarpment above Trevor, with views over Llangollen. A hazy mist threatened […]
Stanage Apparent North
After a lot of overnight rain, it was perhaps asking a lot for the forecasted sunny intervals to dry Stanage, and in the event there weren’t any intervals anyway. However, […]
Agden Rocher
There’s a thread on UKC entitled “In praise of Agden Rocher” and it somehow wriggled its way into my consciousness as Jim and I were pondering a venue for a […]
Halloween double header
Back in Blighty, just in time for a sunny autumn snap. Gorgeous on Kinder on Monday … with a touch of frost in the shade and even some icy patches, […]
Carrière Collot, Epinal
We do climb in some funny places… Here’s another random stop-over crag, found on the web and chosen because of proximity to our homeward route, short walk-in (zero!) and sunny […]
La Jacoterie
Drifting homewards and looking for cragging opportunities to break the journey, we took a “lucky dip” in the Vertical Life app and came up with La Jacoterie in the Jura. […]
Leysin – Pierre de Moelle
The main Leysin crags are accessed by a cable car followed by a bit of a hike, and with the weather looking a bit iffy to start with we decided […]
Yvorne
After a night in a campsite by Lac Leman We continued our exploration of the cragging a few km back up the Rhone Valley near the town of Aigle. This […]
Gorges du Dailley, Salvan – sectors Daillet and Dalle
There’s a LOT of granite on the hillside above Martigny, much of it accessed from the impossibly quaint village of Salvan Les Granges. The major tourist attraction here is The […]
Dorenaz
After a 2-day side-visit to Chamonix that turned into a fortnight, we’ve finally managed to tear ourselves away. We’d visited pretty much all of the cragging venues and the interval […]
Gietroz, sector Pylon
The somewhat utilitarian name belies an excellent little crag. Gietroz is the easterly extension of Barberine and has a bunch of sectors scattered over the hillside. Pylon is just over […]
Lady in Black, Point Gaspard, Aiguilles Rouges
After a week of valley cragging it was time for another adventure further up in the Big Hills, so it was great to be able to call on The Rucksack […]
Coupeau
On Neil’s recommendation we made a trip to Coupeau, a hidden gem of Chamonix Valley cragging – always handy to have a bit of local knowledge! It’s not a huge […]
Vallorcine
Almost 6 weeks in to Helen’s recovery and it’s time for some tentative steps back into multi-pitch adventuring – we’d been saving the friendly granite slabs at Vallorcine for the […]
Le Clis, Vallee d’Arve
We’d exhausted most of the major Chamonix Valley cragging options, and needed a break from granite slabs, so headed back down the Arve to seek out Le Clis. This is […]
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