Another evening at the New Mills Torrs all-weather venue
With heavy rain coming in from the North West, Andy and John opted to move the Rucksack Club Wednesday evening meet from Anglezark (near Bolton) to New Mills Torrs. Once […]
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Thaurac
This is a great set of crags a few km from Ganges, about 50km north of Montpellier and the Med. The area’s main claim to fame is the show cave […]
Vingrau, Tauteval and Opoul – Route de la Grimpe
Warning – this post contains no actual climbing! We decided to spend a rest day getting a bit of the drive north done and recceing the crags around Vingrau. This […]
Meio Mango
Whilst it might sound like a dodgy sandwich filling, Meio Mango is actually the most happening crag in Arrabida. You park within a stone’s throw of the rather spectacular lighthouse […]
Ponta de Balieera
Ponta de Balieera is the third and most eastern “lump” on the Sagres peninsula – marked by a small bustling port on its east side and topped with a rather […]
Foz de Fornas
Another breezy day at the end of the world – but with full-on sunshine to help offset the chill. Foz de Fornas is the landward end of a south facing […]
Sagres – Armacao Nova
Sagres is the southwesterly tip of Europe (if that’s even a thing), but regardless of the arguments about points of the compass, it undeniably sticks out into the Atlantic and […]
A gorgeous day at Gogarth – aren’t they all?
Back in Blighty in time to head along to the Manchester University Mountaineering Club (MUMC) and Rucksack Club joint meet at our hut in The Pass. Inevitable drizzle on Saturday […]
In to Greece – Meteora
Our journey through southern Bulgaria took us past Rila and Pirin National Parks, between them containing the highest peaks in the country (around 2,700m), Alpine scale with some rocky bits […]
Vratsa
Probably the most famous and extensive climbing area in Bulgaria. Our well researched plans came somewhat unstuck as the campsite we’d been hoping to use as a base turned out […]
Tardos – a taste of Hungarian climbing
Hungary is pretty flat – plenty of pretty green rolling hills, but not a lot of rock or places to climb. However, we were passing through and determined to get […]
Running Hill Pits
We caused great consternation by confessing that this was our first visit to The Pits. The local Greenfield cognesenti couldn’t understand how we’d managed 25 years in the vicinity without […]
Castle Naze
Forecasts suggested that a decent start to the day would turn to showers, not ideal for the first Rucksack Club evening meet we’d managed to be around for in ages. […]
Luna Nascente
We made the most of a much improved forecast with an early start and were on the first shuttle bus at 8am. We made short work of the “1 to […]
Sunny Stanage
Spring has well and truly arrived, and the hordes have arrived at Stanage – including about ten Rucksackers and friends. I’ve never seen the High Neb parking so full. Luckily, […]
Into Rioja – Climbing at Clavio
Heading east, we drop over the tail end of the Cantabrian range and stop briefly in the southern Basque country, or Pais Vasques. Everything changes, from landscape to architecture, and […]
Berodia
…well, we did make it back through the tunnel – though a slight asymmetry in the van roof meant we had to let the tyres down for an extra inch […]
Cuevas del Mar
After a peaceful night parked up high above Los Beyos, the arrival of the local hunt prompted an early start – how were we to know we’d camped in their […]
A month of Roca Verde
After a month in the crags around the Cantabrian mountains, we’re finally moving out of the range of the Roca Verde guide. We’ve visited almost 20 new crags, and still […]
Fuentes de Penacorada and back over the Picos
For our last day in Leon we checked out this beautiful gem of a crag, climbing on limestone fins next to a babbling stream and only 2 minutes from the […]
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