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Grand Alliance for Father’s Day

June 19, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

Black Crag in Borrowdale is a great venue with a wide spread of grades – with the unusual distinction of routes that feature in both Classic Rock and Extreme Rock […]

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Lakes, UK

Rhoscolyn

May 14, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

Regular readers (both of you!) will know that Gogarth is my favourite stomping ground, so unsurprisingly I’m gradually running out of things that I haven’t done or aren’t too terrifying […]

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UK, Wales

Tremadog – Cream, Vulcan and Falcon

September 25, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

A gloomy forecast across the UK, with occasional chinks of dryness had Jake and me heading for North Wales in hope rather than expectation. Even the usual safe bet of […]

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UK, Wales

Black Crag, Pike o’ Blisko

August 29, 2021by Dominic 1 Comment

There are a string of crags, scattered over the southern slopes of Pike o’ Blisko, of which Black Crag is the most extensive. They’re more on the scale of a […]

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Lakes, UK

Destination Dow

August 28, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

Dow Crag is one of the great mountain crags of The Lakes, and benefits from fairly easy access from Langdale (20mins drive) so is a great spot to avoid the […]

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Lakes, UK

You know it’s a weird summer when The Lakes is the dry option – Raven Crag and Hodge Close

August 18, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

Jake and I had a couple of days window for a mid-week getaway in Glorious August – if only the weather would play game. Scouring forecasts, options were limited: Even […]

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Lakes, UK

Gogarth 2021

July 4, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

Helen and I have organised a Rucksack Club meet at Gogarth every year for the last two decades, or at least we had done until last year when we had […]

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Rucksack Club, UK, Wales

Back on Hallowed Ground – First Gogarth Trip in 18 months!

April 17, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

It goes without saying that the interruption of my climbing exploits is pretty small beer in amongst the tragedy and tumult of the last year. However, the fact that 2020 […]

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UK, Wales

So long Lockdown

March 30, 2021by Dominic 1 Comment

The “roadmap” has finally yielded the beginning of the end of the latest Lockdown (was it the 2nd or 3rd, and more importantly will it be the last?) Time for […]

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Peak, UK

The Diamond and The Black – Lockdown slideshow

January 6, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

With slightly spooky foresight I managed to launch Season 2 of The Rucksack Club’s Lockdown Slideshows to coincide with the beginning of Lockdown 3 in the UK. Something tells me […]

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Rockies, Rucksack Club, USA

Craig y Forwen

August 22, 2020by Dominic 2 Comments

The coat tails of Storm Ellen were flapping around Britain, bringing lashing rain, as Andy and I set off for the crag on Saturday morning. The wipers were still on […]

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UK, Wales

Beeston Tor

August 20, 2020by Dominic 7 Comments

Where in Provence are we?… Okay, it’s a trick question of course, and the title is a bit of a giveaway, but Beeston is one of the few bits of […]

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Peak, UK

Limestone pick n mix

August 15, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

I’ve deliberately dialed down the blogging of visits to familiar “holes in the ground” – there’s only so much you can say about Harpur Hill and the Stoney crags, and […]

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Peak, UK, Wales

Dovedale Groove

August 9, 2020by Dominic 1 Comment

Here’s a route that’s been on my tick list for 35 years, ever since it appeared in the iconic TV series: Lakeland Rock. This featured Chris Bonington charting the development […]

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Lakes, UK

Swordfish – Stackpole Head

August 3, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

There’s really no excuse for visiting Pembroke in August and going to a crag that isn’t bird banned the rest of the year. Stackpole Head is one of the major […]

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UK, Wales

There’ll be a welcome at the seaside – Pembroke’s open for business!

July 20, 2020by Dominic 1 Comment

With restrictions easing in Scotland and Wales we had a choice to make for the next stage of getting RockAroundTheWorld back on the road. In the end, the forecast made […]

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UK, Wales

A Feast on The East

June 25, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

According to Hard Rock: “The East Buttress of Scafell is the finest crag in The Lakes. A great lonely crag. Its walls overhang. Water drips out instead of down.” Quite […]

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Lakes, UK

RockAroundTheWorld Retrospective – The 2004-5 Big Trip part 1: Around the Baltic in 80 Days

June 22, 2020by Dominic 5 Comments

We first coined the phrase “RockAroundTheWorld” in 2004 when Helen and I took the tumultuous decision to have a “grownup gap-year”, take the kids (aged 8 and 10) out of […]

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Eastern Europe, Hungary, Norway, Slovenia

Virtual Gogarth Meet and Quiz

June 13, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

Every June, for almost 20 years, Helen and I have organised The Gogarth Meet. Despite my best efforts, and the climbing on The Best Crag In The World, this has […]

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Peak, Rucksack Club, UK, Wales

Nesscliffe – Trouble in Toytown

June 9, 2020by Dominic 1 Comment

We visited Nesscliffe a couple of years ago, with the focus very much on Jake’s ambition to lead his first E7. That trip turned out well… https://www.google.com/amp/s/rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2018/06/03/nesscliffe-and-jakes-first-e7/amp/ …and I’d been […]

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