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Pembroke Rucksack Club Meet – Part 2

May 8, 2022by Dominic Leave a comment

The “late shift” of Martin, Dave, Helen, Jim and Claire arrived on Monday to keep the buzz going for another week, bringing a welcome improvement in the weather with them! […]

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Rucksack Club, UK, Wales

Pembroke Rucksack Club Meet – Part I

May 2, 2022by Dominic 4 Comments

Jack’s official meet started on the Thursday before the Bank Holiday weekend, so Paul, Jake and I took advantage of the extended window to beat the inevitable traffic and get […]

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Rucksack Club, UK, Wales

Climbers Against Cancer Charity Calendar – Now on the Shelves

October 30, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

Rockaroundtheworld doesn’t do adverts – but I do make an occasional exception in a very good cause… Just to prove that I occasionally do something other than climb, here’s news […]

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Rucksack Club

Dallen’s Rock – a very handy microcrag

September 11, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

Craigallan, The Rucksack Club’s Scottish hut, is a fabulous base for exploring the finest mountain crags in Lochaber (and therefore Britain?) Strategically situated overlooking Loch Linnie, it’s just twenty minutes […]

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Rucksack Club, Scotland, 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

Eggselent Easter week

April 6, 2021by Dominic Leave a comment

The first tentative (but irreversible?!) steps out of Lockdown were perfectly timed to coincide with the clocks changing (OK, that’s pretty predictable!) and another great week of sunny weather (who […]

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Evening Meet, Peak, Rucksack Club, UK

Sun Rock 2021

March 1, 2021by Dominic 1 Comment

Ever since our kids started school, which is over 20 years ago now, we’ve observed the tradition of a February half term SunRock trip. It’s the perfect window in the […]

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Peak, Rucksack Club, UK

Rucksack Club Charity Calendar in support of Urban Uprising

November 5, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

Thanks to the magic of the Internet and a lot of great help (Cheers JP especially!) I’ve pulled together The 2021 Rucksack Club Charity Calendar from the back of the […]

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Rucksack Club

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

Running Like a Climber – A trip back into the RockAroundTheWorld archives

April 26, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

We’re approaching 6 weeks into lockdown and the lack of climbing is starting to tell. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and I briefly rekindled my running career, only to […]

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Peak, Rucksack Club, Scotland, UK

North America Wall revisited – The Rucksack Club’s first virtual slideshow

April 10, 2020by Dominic

In these difficult times it’s really important to stay connected even if we can’t meet physically, so it was a great privilege to team up with Bill to deliver The […]

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California, Rucksack Club, USA

SunRock 2020 – not quite what we’d planned!

March 21, 2020by Dominic

Wow – it’s barely a week ago (Friday 13th, not that I’m superstitious – or wasn’t!) that we were sitting in the kitchen at Finepark, Finestrat, with the Rucksack Club […]

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Rucksack Club, Spain, Valencia & Costa Blanca

Happy New Year!

January 3, 2020by Dominic Leave a comment

Happy New Year from RockAroundTheWorld! … and what better way to get 2020 off to a great start than to get yourself a calendar full of inspiring Get Out There! […]

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Rucksack Club

Rocking, Running and Biking Around the Peak

December 9, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

Just in case you were worried by the ‘radio silence’ from Rock Around The World, here’s a quick update on the last month or so since we returned from The […]

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Peak, UK

Twenty Star North Wales Weekend

August 4, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

It was a dodgy forecast, but a Rucksack Club meet at Beudy (our hut in The Pass) is usually worth it for the social anyway – climbing is a bonus. […]

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Rucksack Club, UK, Wales

A week of Peak Temperatures

July 26, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

With the seemingly inevitable new “hottest day on record” arriving this week, the fickle relationship between climbers and the weather is exposed: “It’s too hot!” There’s no pleasing some people […]

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Evening Meet, Peak, Rucksack Club, UK

Many shades of Grit

June 22, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

Not a racey page-turner, but a quick look back at a week’s visits to 5 different grit crags, and the amazing contrast offered by more or less the same rock […]

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Evening Meet, Peak, Rucksack Club, UK

Rucksack Club Gogarth Meet 2019

June 17, 2019by Dominic 2 Comments

Amidst a fairly unspectacular summer, the forecast for the Rucksack Club’s annual pilgrimage to Gogarth wasn’t looking particularly auspicious. I’ve been organising this gathering for almost 20 years, and not […]

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Rucksack Club, UK, Wales

A week in The Peak

April 26, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

Back from Pembroke and Ogmore, what could be a greater contrast than a trip to Windgather? We headed to this friendliest of Peak crags to catch up with Bill and […]

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Evening Meet, Peak, Rucksack Club, UK

Leonidio – Cave of Panagia and a (not) multi-pitch adventure

March 2, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

After our last trip to play on the fabulous tufas above the lower tier at Cave of Panagia I’d been pestering Jake to explore further with one of the multi-pitch […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

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