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From New River Gorge
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From Seneca Rocks
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From Lakeland August Bank Holiday
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From German Visitors
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From A Break in the Training
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From Climbing with Laurence
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From Leonidio
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From Eagle Crag Grisedale to ourselves
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From Vosges
Category: Rock Climbing
Climbing rock (aka Free Climbing).
The final destination on our American east coast adventure was the New River Gorge, or just the “New” as it seems to be called. We’d chosen to visit particularly because we hoped the seasonal autumn colours would be on full show at their best – we weren’t let down, it’s a beautiful place…
Our first venue was the spectacular Seneca Rocks. Only just over two hours drive from Washington, and what a place…
It seems that global warming is real! Who knew? Anyway, that means that we had great weather for the August Bank Holiday in the Lakes, when really we all know it should have been raining… 😉 A Longish Bike Ride A day on the Water Paddling from Grasmere, via the Rothay and Rydal Water, to …
After getting back from the Alps our friends from Karlsruhe cam to stay for a few days. The weather wasn’t perfect (we had a bit of rain), but we got out a fair bit with them and enjoyed a wide range of Lakeland adventuring – canoeing, scrambling, climbing, walking, exploring the slate mines, etc! We …
Training for l’Etape du Tour had been going well, we’d even made our little 15 second “selfie videos” about our objectives for the Etape as requested by the Social Rider programme.
We finally managed to sort out a date to visit Laurence in Sheffield. He’s already half ay through his second year, so it was about time! The forecast was for sun, so without asking Laurence what he wanted to do, we decided we simply had to go climbing. But instead of the many grit stone …
Leonidio is an amazing sport climbing destination! It’s as simple as that!
Another Bank Holiday weekend, hooray!
On our trip south for the Marmotte we decided to break up the journey… This had several benefits – We visited Belgium and saw the Atomium in Brussels, We visited Luxembourg City, We saved a massive amount of money on tolls by not using French motorways, and We happened across the Vosges Mountains…
