Category: Climbing
Climbing – rock, ice, mountains, boulders, etc.
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Saturday dawned sunny but cold and windy so after doing some chores I headed out into the Peak...
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...
We are lucky to be able to help out at the annual Kendal Mountain (Film) Festival. We don't have difficult jobs - door staff checking people's tickets and other easy stuff like that. But we do enjoy the event enormously and get a privileged opportunity to see all the movies...
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...
Terry has been to Jack Scout crag before and it seemed like a good venue following the fireworks and booze of the night before...
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...
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...
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...
