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Chamonix Weekend
Recently we enjoyed a super sunny long weekend in Chamonix with Dave and Kasia… On Friday Dave and I climbed 11 pitches on L’ete Indien in the Vallon de Bérard with a couple of pitches “off route” at...
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Borrowdale Guidebook Work
On Tuesday I went out with Steve, Andy, and Richard to try and get a few missing action photos for the forthcoming Borrowdale guidebook… The mission was to of to Doves Nest in Combe Ghyll and get...
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Guidebook Launch & Goats Crag
Last Friday evening was the official guidebook launch party for the new Lake District Rock guidebook published under the new Wired Guides brand by the FRCC. The eagle-eyed will notice that my...
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An Arc’teryx Lakeland Revival T-shirt Grab !
This past couple of weeks I seem to have fallen in with a gang of rather dubious Arc’teryx t-shirt grabbers… I have been to Esk Buttress (3 t-shirts bagged), Flat Crags (2 t-shirts bagged), and...
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The Cirque of the Unclimbables
The much anticipated flight from Inconnu Lodge to Glacier Lake was fantastic! Although the weather was far from perfect – we flew through, or round, a number of storms. It’s amazing that from the...
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Whitehorse and Yukon Rock
Whitehorse is the last bit of normal civilisation we passed through on the way out the Cirque of the Unclimbables, and it feels like it, with the qualities one associates with an old style frontier...
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Squamish and Vancouver
After a short stay in Whitehorse it was time to catch our flight back to Vancouver and head out to Squamish. It’s interesting to note that while we had been in the Yukon we had – when we had Wi-Fi and...
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Esk Gorge Scramble
Pete was working this Sunday so I thought I’d join him. The venue was Esk Gorge, and the idea is to scramble up the river and to jump off as many high points as possible. What a laugh! Pete was guiding...
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September Sunshine
Black Crag – Nutless Last week my great pal Boris was visiting the Lakes and we stole a couple of days to get Boris back on the rock… On the first day we went to Wallowbarrow in the Duddon valley for a...
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Autumnal Shepherds
We met up with Helen and Mo at Shepherds today. It was a cold start but we still managed to get a few good routes in: Fishers Folly, Creeping Jesus and Kransic Crack. Unfortunately we had to leave...
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A Chamonix Painting Expedition
Time to Work Last week Ian and I went to the French Alps to get a load of apartment maintenance work done. The lounge area got a complete floor-to-ceiling paint job (there was a nasty crack in the...
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Mini New Year Break in Chamonix
The snow conditions were looking very poor in Chamonix with the endless sunshine in the Alps. The Atlantic frontal systems that should have been delivering frequent snow storms were being concentrated...
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Rjukan Ice Climbing Meet, 2016
I'm just back from a week of ice climbing with Joe on the CC's meet at Norway's famous and reliable frozen playground, Rjukan ... from Rjukan Ice Climbing Meet, 2016
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Springtime France
We’re recently back from a couple of weeks in France, what an amazing (and weird?) series of spring weather conditions we had though… Dover Work The first day in Chamonix was a work day – fitting a new...
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Amazing Lakeland Bank Holiday Weather
The weather this past bank holiday has been amazing in the Lake District. In fact the whole of the North West has been enjoying a prolonged period of settled sunny weather. Especially nice that, in an...
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Another Dry Lakeland Bank Holiday
After an amazing start to the summer weather in May and early June, July and August have been quite disappointing really. More wet, grey, and disappointing weather days than the proper summer sunshine...
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