The Bat
The Bat on Carn Dearg Buttress on The Ben has a fearsome reputation, and barring The Scoop, was potentially the toughest assignment of the remaining ten routes on my Hard […]
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Carreg Fran Isaf – newly-developed Ogwen Valley mountain crag
I was heading over to the Rucksack Club hut in The Pass for Steve’s Beudy meet and I teamed up with George who was up for a day-trip. “How about […]
Peak Grit – from Popular to Esoteric (and back?)
My German colleague, Matthias, is a climber and managed to tag a visit to The Peak District on to the end of a business trip from his base in The […]
Slanting Slab – just 10 Hard Rock routes to go
Slanting Slab on Cloggy is the only route south of the border remaining on my Hard Rock tick list. After a reconnaissance last year… … all the ingredients fell into […]
Swanage Revisited
Perhaps the most outstanding aspect of Britain’s climbing is its seacliffs, which are unique in the world for their variety and the extent to which they have been explored by […]
Avon Calling
Jim and I had pencilled in a mid-week slot for a mini-adventure, but a browse of the usual destinations was coming up distinctly damp: Pembroke – nope; Cornwall – nope; […]
Rucksack Club Gogarth Meet
Helen and I have been organising the Rucksack Club’s annual pilgrimage to Gogarth for over 20 years (a terrifying thought in itself!) After the “virtual” zoom version in 2020, and […]
Gearr Aonach
Glen Coe is a magnificent spot, with some sensational climbing, but a lot of it is shady and it’s almost all a good hour from the car. Looking for a […]
Ardnamurchan – The Gift of the Gabbro
Another fabulous climbing area that wasn’t really on our radar until the happy coincidence of a visit by Zoe and Dave and a possible weather window – all the excuse […]
Rosehearty and Meackie Point
Rosehearty is a pleasant village near the far east of the Moray Coast, only a few miles from Fraserburgh. Not an obvious spot for a visit, but it held twin […]
Moray Coast – Logie Head and Cummingston
“Scottish climbing” conjures up images of big days on The Ben and huge walk-ins to remote crags, but away from the big hills there’s a whole other dimension – Scotland’s […]
Ardverikie Wall
We’re off on another foray north of the border, chasing the sun and dodging showers as usual. There’s no very well defined plan, although it would be nice to tick […]
Keep Calamès and Carry On Climbing!
Our onwards travels with our counter-intuitive escape from rain-soaked Spain took us to the Ariege in the French Pyrenees, just to the north of Andorra. The forecast promised a generally […]
More Calcena and a Rest Day with the Vultures
The forecasted “Big Rain” wasn’t much more than drizzle, and it was at least as wet everywhere else, so we stayed put in Calcena. To pass the time we made […]
Calcena – a New Addition to our List of Favourite Places
Many of you will be familiar with our favoured reference source for exploring Spain (at least in print) – Donde Escalar has inspired numerous happy finds over the years, and […]
La Pauta – Small but perfectly formed
This was a “new to us” crag, even though it appeared in the first edition of Lleida Climbs. I guess the reason we hadn’t visited previously is because its sweet […]
Castillonroi
Helen stumbled on this series of crags on the web, and it gets a 3 carabiner rating in Donde Escalar (out of a maximum of 6) this roughly translates as […]
Camarasa – Sector Solarium
Our unexpected 4-day weather window of Roca Caliente in Los Pirineos came to an end, prompting the usual soul / app-searching. Without an obvious “grand beau temps” candidate amid a […]
Santa Ana and Alos de Balaguer
A couple of return trips to places we’ve been before – albeit new sectors. I signed off my 2014 Santa Ana post with: Definitely somewhere we’ll return on future trips. […]
Bagergue – Val d’Aran
With a sunny day in prospect, we decided to check out the most northerly area covered in the Roca Caliente guidebook. The Val d’Aran is the northernmost extent of Catalunya, […]
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