Algimia d’Alfara – a bit of a Marmite crag
Mid morning in Navajas and it still only says 2C on the outside thermometer. Plenty of time to scour the web for a sunny sheltered crag, the problem being that […]
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Cucala and Araya – Rock Around Castellón
Those of you who know me well will have me down as a bit of an app junkie, which is a fair assessment. Our new favourite climbing website is TheCrag.com […]
Rock hungry and windswept – climbing in Alto Palancia, Castellón
RockAroundTheWorld is back on the road! After a mildly harrowing journey (engine warning light on the way to the ferry, and Force 9 in the Bay of Biscay) we were […]
ROCKAROUNDTHEWORLD RETROSPECTIVE – THE 2004-5 BIG TRIP PART 4: The Four Corners – exploring the SW USA Deserts
If you missed the first three installments of our Big Trip Retrospective, you can follow our blast around Eastern Europe and Scandinavia here: Europe , our trip across the Rockies here: Rockies and […]
Split (part 2) – Markezina Greda, Bobanova Greda and Marjan
With so much climbing around our beach-front residence at Camping Stobrec, Split, I had to SPLIT it into two posts. This one, somewhat arbitrarily, takes in three crags to the […]
Split (part 1) – Perun and Klobuk
It turns out that it does sometimes rain in Croatia, and we used a couple of very damp days (sorry – no rain pics, but trust me; it was verging […]
Climbing around Paklenica – Vaganac, Vranjaca and Obil Kuk
Paklenica is deservedly the most famous climbing destination in Croatia – this 15km long canyon starts just a couple of km from the coast and snakes its way up into […]
Velebit National Park – Filipov Kuk
The Velebit massif is the largest (though not the highest) mountain range in Croatia. It sits proudly overlooking the Adriatic, and runs for around 150km down the spine of the […]
Lukovo – a hidden seaside gem
Escaping some iffy weather in Istria we hoped to sample the climbing on Krk (a handy island destination because it is now connected via a now free bridge), but that […]
Kompanj and more Karst fun
Kompanj is the other 5* crag in the Buzet area; a defiant final outcrop of immaculate white and orange limestone on the 100km escarpment before it fizzles out towards Rijeka. […]
Vela Draga
Istria, the bulbous peninsula at the northern end of the Adriatic, is separated from the rest of Croatia by the Učka mountains, which are protected as a Nature Park. The […]
Climbing on the Karst – Buzetski Kanjon
The Karst escarpment that hosts so much quality climbing in this corner of the Adriatic runs for around 100km from Monfalcone in Italy, south east through Trieste, nips across Slovenia, […]
Mantrap, Mousetrap Zawn – More Extreme Ledge-Shuffling
Scattered showers across the country prompted the inevitable journey along the A55. Stan and I try to schedule a Gogarth trip each year in the early Autumn, once the bird […]
Celebrating the Pinnacle Club Centenary
We were greatly honoured to be invited along to the Pinnacle Club Centenary dinner at the Vic in Llanberis (actually 102 years due to Covid). As well as the long-established […]
Canyons of Contrast – Homeward Bound
Having taken a solemn pledge to chill and enjoy the last couple of days of our trip, we set about constructing an itinerary that would take in some decent climbing […]
Primrose Dihedral, Moses
Primrose Dihedral had been on my radar as perhaps THE must-do Desert Tower, ever since reports of ascents in the 90s from returning conquering heroes, including Martin, Mike and John. […]
Castleton Tower
There’s quite a lot of concern in the desert climbing community about climbing on sandstone after rain – it’s a fragile rock, and gets significantly weaker when wet, when especially […]
Ancient Art, Fisher Towers
After fleeing a rain-lashed Zion, we headed east towards Moab for the second phase of the adventure. A small detour gave us the opportunity to get even more value for […]
Prodigal Sun
Prodigal Sun was the other Wall on our shortlist for Zion adventure, and it had been a coin flip that meant we set our sights on Moonlight Buttress first (directissima […]
Moonlight Buttress
Arriving late in Zion National Park, the full moon hinted at the grandure of the surrounding scenery, picked out in monochrome, … delaying the full sensory overload of vivid orange […]
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