Pembroke Rucksack Club Meet – Part 2
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! […]
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! […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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! […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]