Cocher-cochon
Year: 2009
BBQ summer fizzles out
Swiss Style Alpin
Phoenix Long O/Mountain Marathon
Ratho Climbing Wall
Hat cake
Dolomites – Honeymoon Part III
Froggatt
Pot Scar
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We have a new guidebook - the new Michel Piola The Aiguilles Rouge (English version) - so we looked for something reasonably short for our first day in Chamonix...
It was the last walk of the AW Thursday night walking group, and true to form for this year the weather was rubbish.
Finally we managed to meet up with our friends from Zurich for a nice and easy mountaineering route up the Grassen in the Berner Oberland region...
If the Dolomites hadn't been enough for the old legs, we finished off the holidays with the Phoenix long o/mountain marathon near Rothbury in Northumberland...
The climbing wall at Ratho (the EICA; Edinburugh International Climbing Arena) has got to be the biggest climbing wall I've ever seen! It has almost the same ability to intimidate as a real crag...
If you were thinking that the last post was without cake, think again!
We were going to Iceland, however we changed our minds at the last minute and headed to Italy instead...
This weekend Anna and I headed to The Downes hut to meet up with friends from our old climbing club in London. Paul headed south from Barnsley and also joined us.
It wasn't raining, but I was feeling cold and I didn't want to venture high. I wanted to avoid the potential crowds (!) on low-lying Lakeland rock and so I decided that we should head east to Yorkshire. I like the area near Austwick, so Pete picked a new venue for us - Pot Scar...