Sterling Adventures 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/2012/02/03/ski-ski-ski/feed/ 4 Unexciting, but an adventure nevertheless… http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/02/02/unexciting-but-an-adventure-nevertheless/ http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/02/02/unexciting-but-an-adventure-nevertheless/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:36:48 +0000 Jon http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=17295 from Unexciting, but an adventure nevertheless...

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]]> http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/31/antarctic-postcard/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/2012/01/29/friday-13th-is-2-weeks-late/feed/ 5 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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