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From Lakeland August Bank Holiday
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From German Visitors
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From A Break in the Training
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From Climbing with Laurence
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From Leonidio
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From Eagle Crag Grisedale to ourselves
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From Vosges
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From Awesome Multi-Activity Weather in the Lakes
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From Waterval Boven
Category: Rock Climbing
Climbing rock (aka Free Climbing).
It seems that global warming is real! Who knew? Anyway, that means that we had great weather for the August Bank Holiday in the Lakes, when really we all know it should have been raining… 😉 A Longish Bike Ride A day on the Water Paddling from Grasmere, via the Rothay and Rydal Water, to …
After getting back from the Alps our friends from Karlsruhe cam to stay for a few days. The weather wasn’t perfect (we had a bit of rain), but we got out a fair bit with them and enjoyed a wide range of Lakeland adventuring – canoeing, scrambling, climbing, walking, exploring the slate mines, etc! We …
Training for l’Etape du Tour had been going well, we’d even made our little 15 second “selfie videos” about our objectives for the Etape as requested by the Social Rider programme.
We finally managed to sort out a date to visit Laurence in Sheffield. He’s already half ay through his second year, so it was about time! The forecast was for sun, so without asking Laurence what he wanted to do, we decided we simply had to go climbing. But instead of the many grit stone …
Leonidio is an amazing sport climbing destination! It’s as simple as that!
Another Bank Holiday weekend, hooray!
On our trip south for the Marmotte we decided to break up the journey… This had several benefits – We visited Belgium and saw the Atomium in Brussels, We visited Luxembourg City, We saved a massive amount of money on tolls by not using French motorways, and We happened across the Vosges Mountains…
When the weather is as good as this the Lakes are unbeatable! Three super sunny days on a bank holiday weekend – brilliant. But for once we didn’t give every day over to rock climbing. Instead we made a plan that had each day dedicated to a different outdoor pursuit…
The next leg of our South African adventure was Waterfall Boven. I’ve been to Waterval Boven before on an international meet run by the Mountain Club of South Africa. It’s a great sport climbing venue, with a few high quality trad lines too, but it’s certainly the tough sport climbing here that gives it international …