Sterling Adventures » Climbing http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog The latest reports of world wide rock & ice climbing (and other extreme) fun and adventure! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:50:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Give the Ice a Chance! http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/02/10/give-the-ice-a-chance/ http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/02/10/give-the-ice-a-chance/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Terry http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=17377 Just getting into the swing of it again. Been very warm here but forecast minus 12°C tonight with high minus 5°C tomorrow...

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]]> http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/02/10/give-the-ice-a-chance/feed/ 2 The one that got away…. http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/30/the-one-that-got-away-2/ http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/30/the-one-that-got-away-2/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:00:00 +0000 Elsie http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=17251 My friends Amy and Will headed up to join me in Scotland this weekend with the intention of going winter climbing, with the rare combination of good conditions and a reasonable weather forecast we hoped to tick a **** classic route. I have wanted to climb West Chimney on Bidean Nam Bian for ages, in [...]

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]]> http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/30/the-one-that-got-away-2/feed/ 4 Bowfell & the Wayfarers/CC Accord Meet http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/29/bowfell-the-wayfarerscc-accord-meet/ http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/29/bowfell-the-wayfarerscc-accord-meet/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:14:14 +0000 Pete http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=17210 Saturday morning dawned bright, clear, and cold. Plus it had snowed a lot up high on Thursday and Friday. This was the weather I had been hoping for for some time to get out and climb Bowfell Buttress in winter-nick. Bowfell Buttress is probably the best hard-ish winter classic mixed route of the Lake District… [...]

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]]> http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/15/sharp-edge/feed/ 1 Cold Capella http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/14/cold-capella/ http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/14/cold-capella/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:37:27 +0000 Pete http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=16926 Wow, the first awesome weather in the Lakes for what seems like weeks and weeks, and we were at home… We weren’t the only ones to think that, the car park at the New Dungeon Ghyll was very full. Despite the temperatures being in the minus small numbers in the valley we know of a [...]

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]]> http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/01/new-years-eve-2011/feed/ 1 Int Scottish Winter Climbing Brilliant! http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/12/19/int-scottish-winter-climbing-brilliant/ http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/12/19/int-scottish-winter-climbing-brilliant/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:00:00 +0000 Elsie http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=16350 Fueled with enthusiasm from last weekends winter climbing, I was feeling psyched to get out again, all I needed was a partner and a plan...

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]]> http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/12/19/int-scottish-winter-climbing-brilliant/feed/ 3 Kicking off winter 2011/2012 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/12/15/kicking-off-winter-20112012/ http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/12/15/kicking-off-winter-20112012/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:00:00 +0000 Elsie http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=16312 I headed to the Cairngorms on Saturday with my friend Koon for our first winter climbs of the season...

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]]> http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/12/15/kicking-off-winter-20112012/feed/ 9 Scottish Dry Tooling Competition http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/11/18/scottish-dry-tooling-competition/ http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/11/18/scottish-dry-tooling-competition/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:00:00 +0000 Elsie http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=15954 I took part in the final round of the Scottish Tooling Series held at Glasgow Climbing Centre at the weekend. I wasn't sure what to file this random and bizarre sport under...

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]]> http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/10/28/el-chorro/feed/ 3 A week in Mallorca (Part 3) – Puiga Massanella http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/10/27/a-week-in-mallorca-part-3-puiga-massanella/ http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/10/27/a-week-in-mallorca-part-3-puiga-massanella/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:56:09 +0000 Rachel http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=15639

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]]> http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/10/10/echo-lake-lovers-leap-east-wall/feed/ 7 Hooray, it’s sunny again! http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/10/08/hooray-its-sunny-again/ http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/10/08/hooray-its-sunny-again/#comments Sat, 08 Oct 2011 05:15:51 +0000 Pete http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=15438 Thankfully it has stopped snowing and the sun has come out to play! Although it is still quite cold, just 7°C in the shade, so we chose a super sunny venue...

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]]> http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/10/05/tahoe/feed/ 9 Summer Is (Still) Here! http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/10/03/summer-is-still-here/ http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/10/03/summer-is-still-here/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:26:24 +0000 Dalma http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=15388 The weather was not only nice to the English this weekend but also to the Hungarian. So we used one of the last summer weekends and went out to have some fun at a Hungarian limestone quarry I posted on a few months earlier.

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