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From North York Moors: Escaping the rain in the Lakes
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From Meteora Pebble Dancing & Shower Dodging
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From Manikia Rock
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From Poor Languedoc Footwork
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From Pembroke, summer's final blast
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From Austrian Cragging
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From Mingulay Washout
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From Moroccan Rock 2024
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From Shawangunks
Category: Rock Climbing
Climbing rock (aka Free Climbing).
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…
After our week in Manikia Jana and Laetitia had to head off back home to the Lakes. 🙁 But Nick had booked another week of lovely accommodation for us a few hours north in the utterly gobsmacking destination, Meteora. 😀 Meteora is like a scene from the movie Avatar. Incredible towers of conglomerate rock piercing …
Manikia is a newish Greek sport climbing destination, and it shows! I know it’s a bit of a cliche, but in Manikia’s case I think it’s justified to use, the place is totally unspoiled. There’s no litter, it’s clean, fresh, and very very rural. The place has a really fantastic vibe! Another cliche might be …
It’s been 10 years to the week since I first went to the Languedoc with Keith and friends. So I was quite excited to be returning…
Nigel and I had long planned our September trip to Pembroke, and as luck would have it we found ourselves enjoying the fabulous climbing on the limestone sea cliffs in what turned out to probably be the best week of weather in the whole of the 2024 summer…
On the way to Austria we stopped in Bamberg for a night. Not only did we snag a great German beer and Sausage dinner we also just happened to be in Bamberg during a music festival. The town was very lively! 🙂 Peilstein Our first destination in Austria was Peilstein. We had two days here …
After last year’s amazing trip to Pabbay we thought we’d follow that up with a trip to Mingulay for more awesome climbing on another mythical uninhabited island in the Scottish Outer Hebrides…
Climbing the Moroccan Anti-Atlas Mountains is a fantastic and addictive adventure! This year the team was Nick, Steve, Ed, and Pete. Although we did suffer a couple of ailments … unfortunately Steve had a few days off climbing due to a shocking cough, and Pete’s abilities were curtailed by a desperately painful knee. However, these …
The Shawangunks, or just plain “Gunks” to us climbers, have been on my list of places to go and visit for many years. And so, when Laetitia asked back in March, “Where would you like to go in the autumn for some rock climbing action to get away from typical Lakeland wetness?”, it took me …
