Category: Rock Climbing
Climbing rock (aka Free Climbing).
Yesterday we got up early - still used to UK time - so we made our way to the Red Rock Loop Road...
Terry and Vikki, together with Everett and Lucille from Canmore (Canada) met up to climb in El Potrero Chico near Monterrey in Mexico at the end of November, a time when the weather is particularly amenable to rock climbing around there...
After a hair raising drive through Monterrey, we arrived at Hidaglo, a sprawling Mexican town dominated by the cement factory...
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...
Terry and various partners have been working through 'Western grit' and slowly nudging east. Saturday and glorious weather saw Terry and Chris at Laddow crag. Dangerously east of Glossop...
