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Roaches and Newstones Bouldering
I’ve been climbing at the Roaches many times and never bothered to look at the other climbing venues just next door. The Roaches is just so big and has so much great climbing that I never felt the...
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Trying out the new North Wales Bouldering guidebook
It was a fantastic coincidence. I was due to go on a weekend climbing trip to North Wales and on the Monday before my trip the new North Wales Bouldering guidebook was published. I’d been waiting a...
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Why is the best weather the weekend before?
Why does the best weather always seem to happen the weekend before I go on a climbing trip? Sunshine, clear skies and low winds bless the destinations of my long-planned climbing trips on the weekends...
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I’m Finally Back
It’s been a year since I climbed on real rock and six months since the accident. After lots of physio exercises, surgery and weekly sessions at climbing walls to remind my body how to climb, last...
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Working on my Weaknesses
Rock climbers are advised to work on their weaknesses in order to get better. The trouble is, since my injury, I’ve had quite a few weaknesses. Me climbing the problem Wall End Slab Direct Start (V0...
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KletterRetter Review
My hands dry out really easily after climbing and in cold weather (two things that often go together in the UK). This means that I’m always interested in hand care products for climbers. When I came...
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My Climbing 2018 in Pictures
With a knee injury (and resultant surgery) I didn’t get out as much as I would have liked in 2018. But I still had some great days climbing and walking. These photos give a sense of days.
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Between the Rain
I climbed around the rain this weekend. Rain often either forces me to not go climbing at all, or forces me to finish climbing before I’m ready. This weekend looked like it was going to go that way...
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Falling off a lot
Climbing the fun Pooh Bear (V0 4c) at Froggart Edge. The other weekend I fell off more than usual. I’ll have a go at harder problems every time I go bouldering as a way of trying to improve my...
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Bouldering Below The Old Man
The cloud beginning to lift, revealing the Old Man of Coniston and Boulder Valley. I couldn’t actually find the boulders. I walked back and forth along the same stretch of grassy ridge looking at the...
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Bouldering in Longsleddale
Climbing an unnamed problem on the Jacko Boulder at Settle Earth Boulders, in Longsleddale. Longsleddale was the one place I really wanted to go on my bouldering trip to the Lake District. Some people...
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Langdale Bouldering
Climbing an unnamed boulder problem on the Top Block at the Langdale Boulders. I’ve been wanting to climb on the Langdale Boulders for years. Ever since I moved from mostly climbing trad to mostly...
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Roaches – along and high
Sometimes rain on a climbing trip can be good thing. A couple of weeks ago, rain forced me to give up on climbing at The Roaches and instead go for a walk in the surrounding countryside. It turned...
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Trying Again and a Little Bit of History
A little over a year ago I returned to climbing outside after surgery on my knee. It felt absolutely great to be climbing again, but I knew I still had a way to get my strength and technique back to...
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Joshua Tree Climbing Salve Review
Joshua Tree Climbing Salve Quite a few people responded to my earlier reviews of hand balms for climbers by raving about Joshua Tree Climbing Salve, and suggesting I give it a go. Unfortunately, it...
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Back to Climbing (Concrete)
It was really good to get back to climbing after so long. My weekends away climbing, and weekend visits to the climbing wall all stopped with the pandemic lockdown. I’ve missed it in so many ways....
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Somewhere New
Me climbing Worn Down (Font 3) at Almscliff, Yorkshire. It’s been a while since I last wrote a blog post. The main reasons for this were that the pandemic, and actually getting Covid-19, made it hard...
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A Lesson in Checking the Guidebook
On the hottest day of the day 2022 heatwave, we escaped to the Yorkshire moors to go bouldering. I thought that there was sure to be a breeze, maybe even a cool one, on high, open ground. I was right...
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