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 […]
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El Rito – Cobbles!
El Rito is one of New Mexico’s premier sports venues, and unique in the State being composed of conglomerate. Regular Rockaroundtheworld readers will know we have a fondness for a […]
Taos Part Two – Red River, John Dunn Bridge and Tres Piedras
North of Taos you get into skiing country, though it’s hard to imagine with temperatures still nudging 30 at the end of September at almost 9,000ft. We headed to the […]
Big Top – Aonach Dubh
Looking to continue our 4* tour around Craigallan (our 4* base in the Rucksack Club hut at Ballachulish) we settled on Big Top on the west face of Aonach Dubh. […]
Naranjo de Bulnes or Picu Urriellu
Our (or rather “my” if I’m honest) rather ambitious agenda for this Paroi de Légende trip came in two parts: 1) aiming to bag three 1,000ft plus EDs on three […]
Cornwall Capers
“Flaming June” seemed like a distant memory as we contemplated the forecast ahead of a planned trip to the South West. “Unsettled” didn’t really do it justice, with torrential rain […]
Just Another Week in The Peak, plus a trip up The Matterhorn*
(*Spoiler alert – more accurately a Matterhorn rather than The Matterhorn) Just another week in The Peak started off with a visit to one of my regular haunts: New Mills […]
A Trip down Mid-Wales Memory Lane
I’ve said before how it was Helen and her Dad, Pete, who first introduced me to climbing, over 40 years ago (and without whose intervention you might be reading GolfingAroundTheWorld […]
Climbing with Dolphins at Ynys Lochtyn
A trawl of the UKC crags map, looking for a stopover on our way down to Pembroke, threw up an interesting option: the island of Ynys Lochtyn in Cardigan Bay […]
Pembroke – Way Out West!
Our Pembroke trip was one of those spontaneous “it’s too nice to be at home, where shall we go” efforts, so it was a happy surprise when I realised that […]
Missing Link, St David’s Head, Pembroke
We usually try to time any long journeys to the crag in weather windows unsuitable for climbing – normally ending up driving in the rain, but our trip to Pembroke […]
Skye – an island of contrasts
We had two days to round off Jake’s week-long whistle-stop tour of the finest climbing in Scotland. After visits to the Cairngorms (Creag An Dubh Loch) and The Ben, an […]
A Bivvy on The Ben
There’s so much brilliant climbing on Ben Nevis that, although I’d already ticked both its Hard Rock routes: Centurion and The Bat … it didn’t take much for Jake to […]
Skye Seacliffs
We managed to pick up a copy of the Skye Seacliffs and Outcrops guide on our way through Portree, with 5 minutes to spare before the shop closed – did […]
Caithness Convalescence
A couple of weeks after my… … we’d scheduled a spring trip to Scotland. A week into the recovery of my busted ribs (broken, cracked, bruised? Who knows?), tying my […]
Portugal – A Destination Guide
When it comes to profile, Portugal is the ‘poor neighbour’ of the Iberian Peninsula. This certainly isn’t for a lack of fabulous climbing, or a stunning backdrop to enjoy it […]
Anti-Atlas Adventure part 3 – the Samazar Valley
The Samazar Valley runs parallel and to the north of the Anammer Valley, which contains many of the more frequented crags such as Ksar Rock and Eagle Crag. Strictly speaking, […]
Anti-Atlas Adventure – first stop Tafraout
I had a great week with Tash and Jake a few years ago, exploring the trad quartzite climbing on offer in the Jebel Kest mountains in Morocco. You’ll find some […]
Araotz YECTOYD and a Santander Seaside Send-off at La Arnia
Araotz is one of the most significant climbing areas in the Basque Country, with over 400 routes either side of a steep sided valley, near the town of Oñati (best […]
Dos Hermanas – Balcon de los Buitres
Dos Hermanas, or The Two Sisters, are a pair of impressive limestone towers guarding a pass near the town of Irurtzun. Somewhat incongruously they’ve now squeezed the A15 autopista between […]
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