A Deranged Body Clock – Costa Blanca New Year
Author: Terry
On the Eve of Christmas Eve…
Obituary to a Spider
El Potrero Chico
Mexican Climbing
Tarn Crag, Longsleddale, Pinnacle Ridge
Surprise
Windgather and the Roaches
Jack Scout Crag
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My body clock told me I should be climbing ice but, for one reason or another, here we were at Calpe with Ernie, half the FRCC and Terry Gifford not too far away...
Langdale was very moody....
This Black Widow Spider was probably born early 2007...
Terry and Vikki, together with Everett and Lucille from Canmore (Canada) met up to climb in El Potrero Chico near Monterrey in Mexico at the end of November, a time when the weather is particularly amenable to rock climbing around there...
After a hair raising drive through Monterrey, we arrived at Hidaglo, a sprawling Mexican town dominated by the cement factory...
After a sedentary weekend at the Kendal Film Festival, I felt the urge for a good 'blast' on Tuesday. Nothing too far away, with the short days, and Longsleddale came to mind...
It's a small world, and the climbing fraternity is even smaller...
The boulderers tell us that zero deg C is best for friction. Well, although Tuesday dawned beautiful and clear, it was in fact fff..ing fffreezing, with a wind chill too. So, maybe Windgather wasn't a good choice...
Sunday morning was so wet in Ormskirk that Chris and I called off our trip to the Lakes. My powers of alchemy, over the weather, were obviously failing (like everything else!). Then, by late morning, we saw the fine weather further north...