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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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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

Leonidio – Hot Rock (at last!)

February 28, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

The sun has well and truly got its hat back on now! SunRock indeed 🙂 Troughton team selfie at the campsite ahead of Tash’s last day Back to Twin Caves […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019, Uncategorized

Leonidio – Mars Landing and a Return to Normal Service on Sun Rock

February 26, 2019by Dominic 2 Comments

After three chilly days, normal “Sun Rock service” was finally resumed – just in time to avoid the worst of the mutiny! Big teams at Red Rock and Skiadianiko made […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Leonidio – Twin Caves, and a day of belay bunnying

February 26, 2019by Dominic 1 Comment

Another chilly day, 8C max, but at least it was dry. Reports from Bill and Barbara, back from a foray over the hill, indicated the snowploughs had been out! News […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Leonidio – More Theos Cave

February 24, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

With Saturday’s deluge behind us, it was still pretty chilly and some early drizzle had us wandering up to the crag around noon. Surprisingly, the whole of the Theos / […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Leonidio – Elona and very un-Sunny Rock

February 23, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

The forecasts had been promising a grim start to the final week of SunRock 2019, with various doom-laden projections including inches of rain and even snow. In fairness, the “official” […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Leonidio – Twin Caves

February 22, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

Parking at the 9th hairpin out of town you’re at over 400m (the crag’s at 470m) which is why we were in the snow when Jim and I made our […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

Leonidio – Montanejos Climbing Garden

February 20, 2019by Dominic Leave a comment

Good drying weather and wilting arms provided the perfect conditions to get a month’s washing done and have a lazy start… … before heading to the crag. We’d nipped to […]

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Greece, Leonidio, Rucksack Club, SunRock 2019

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