The Wrong Clothes
Rogan’s Seat
Autumn on Scout Scar
Roaches – yet more fine weather
I’m beginning to get paranoid ideas that every time I ‘touch’ the weather, it turns to gold. So it was at the Roaches on Tuesday, Mediterranean blue skies again with just a hint of easterly cold breeze – ideal. Only downside was that I’d forgotten it was half term, so it was like a Saturday …
Climbing + Walking in Mallorca
We just got back from a week of late Mallorcan sun. The plan had been to mostly climb and get up Gubia Normal by the end of the week. In the event we found the climbing just a bit too hard for us, most crags grades started at 4+ and my trad leading is still …
Cold hides and noisy folk (plus some birds)
OFD I to OFD II
A through trip from Ogof Ffynnon Ddu I to OFD II was planned with Brendan (DCC), Richard and I. In the end a metallurgy professor from Oxford also joined the trip. A really fabulous trip it was. We started off at the bottom of the hill and went through various places, some of which I …
A Foray East
Terry and various partners have been working through ‘Western grit’ and slowly nudging east. Saturday and glorious weather saw Terry and Chris at Laddow crag. Dangerously east of Glossop, far up Longdendale, about an hour’s walk (as far as Dow or Gimmer). Looking back down Longdendale from Laddow crag, towards Woodhead reservoir, a good walk! …
TK caught buying gritstone guide!
Sunday dawned fine and frosty so a quick phone call to Clive found us heading out to the Peak. Clive needed supplies so we called at Hathersage and caught Terry buying a gritstone guide WOW! Terry set off for Burbage while we after the usual “where shall we go debate” ended up on Stanage, always …