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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
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From French Misadventures 2023
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From Pabbay
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From Easter with Laurence & Megan
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From Moroccan Anti Atlas, 2023
Category: Rock Climbing
Climbing rock (aka Free Climbing).
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 …
Our summer jollies to the Alps this year had mixed results…
We’ve been looking forward to and fearing our trip to Pabbay, a remote and uninhabited tiny island off Scotland in the Bishop Isles, in varyingly different amounts for some time…
Thankfully the long Easter weekend was blessed with a brilliant sunny forecast, perfect for our visiting nephew, Laurence, and his girlfriend, Megan, to see some of the best the Lake District has to offer…
I was last in Morocco three years ago, leaving just days before Morocco (followed by most of the world) locked down to fight Covid-19. So three years on, almost to the week, it was absolutely brilliant to get back to this fantastic climbing area.
