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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 Leave a 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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UK

Curbar – a John Allen homage

June 8, 2020by Dominic 1 Comment

Jake is back home for a while and keen to get some Peak climbing in the bag, and a fairly arbitrary decision saw us pick Curbar for a rather damp […]

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Peak, UK

Kinder Northern Edges – a different Kinda Grit

June 2, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

Ashop Edge, on the north side of the Kinder plateau, is something of a connoisseurs crag. Rarely in condition, it features a number of routes that (when “in”) would warrant […]

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Peak, UK

Lockdown loosening

May 17, 2020by Dominic 2 Comments

It’s hard to believe that I haven’t set hand or foot to rock since 20th March – almost 8 weeks and the longest gap in my outdoor climbing in certainly […]

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Peak, UK

Back in Blighty and a Birthday Blast for Jake

March 20, 2020by Dominic

I’m going to preface this blog post with a disclaimer, given the amount of vitriol that seems to be propagating on climbing fora and in the media, and also to […]

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Peak, UK

Jaén – Castillo de Santa Catalina and Reguchillo

February 19, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

We’d pretty much wrung the last drops from the climbing available in Portugal, which coincided perfectly with the first day of dodgy weather in ages. Time to head East! We […]

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Andelucia, Spain

Escusa

February 15, 2020by Dominic 1 Comment

Flicking through the Portugal Climbing guide, packed with great photos, the shots of Escusa still stand out – I’ve rarely seen such a striking wall of ribboned flowstone, and as […]

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Portugal

Crista de Zebro

February 12, 2020by Dominic

Heading north from Sesimbra we stopped off at Nazaré to check out the surf scene – the world’s “biggest” waves, apparently and we were treated to 60 footers, and stumbled […]

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Portugal

Pedreiras – off the beaten track in Arrabida

February 8, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

The first dodgy forecast in ages saw us set out on a reconnaissance of Pedreiras, an Arrabida crag that didn’t make it into the Portugal guide. We found it on […]

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Portugal

Azoia revisited

February 7, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

We had a couple of trips to the crags at Azoia on our 2018 visit (see these links for approach and route beta) https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2018/02/05/azoia-arrabida-natural-park/ https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2018/02/08/azoia-cova-mijona-poema-rocha/ … so were in Groundhog […]

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Portugal

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