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From Galloway Sea Cliffs & Glenapp Castle
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From Snakes & Ladders
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From Oxford Meandering
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From Leonidio ... again!
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From Leonidio
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From Slovakia
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From North Wales Rock has arrived, Wired's Final Guidebook?
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From Stonesty South Crag
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From North York Moors: Escaping the rain in the Lakes
Category: Climbing
Climbing – rock, ice, mountains, boulders, etc.
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To celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary we’d arranged a very special stay at a very special hotel in Galloway. But before that we were slumming it in normal climber’s fashion and enjoying a bit of rock climbing on the fabulous sea cliffs around the Rhins of Galloway. Meikle Ross Our first climbing stop was Meikle …
After a couple days of sunny rock climbing on Anglesey the weather changed to rain – and so, having a willing partner, I finally got to explore the feared Snakes & Ladders circuit of the Llanberis slate quarries…
We visited Laurence and Beth in Oxford over the hottest week of ’26 so far. It reach over 34°C, so it was a good job the main entertainment water on the river Cherwell punting…
Yet another trip to Leonidio … I guess I must like the place? 😀 This time I went with an extended gang of Kendalian climbers (Tim, Cherrie, Graham, Pete and his son Ben who joined us for a few days, Neil, and Greg). We met up with Ed, who had already been in Leonidio for …
Yet another trip to Leonidio – it’s that good there! This time though I went with a gang of Slovakian based mates…
I had hopes of seeing some ex-soviet brutalist culture when visiting Slovakia. In that regard I was disappointed. Slovakia, despite being very far to the east – just about as far east as Europe goes, is best described with just one word – beautiful…
I have just received an advance copy of the latest Wired guidebook, North Wales Rock. Wow, what a great book! In my humble opinion this is the best looking guidebook to rock climbing in North Wales ever produced. 😉 Published under the Wired brand by the Climbers’ Club this will likely be the last ever …
Steve wanted to go to Stonesty Crag as he hadn’t been there before. I had been to Stonesty Summit Crag before and so I knew the walk up from Moasdale was a very tough and steep trek! But my warning wasn’t enough to put him off, so off we headed…
The bank-holiday weather forecast for the Lakes was pretty poor – continuous rain! So Laetitia spent some time looking around the country to see if anywhere else offered anything more appealing and discovered that the north-east was set to offer full sun all day Sunday, and sunshine and showers on Monday…
