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On the rest day it was decided that the other celebrated Rodellar pasttime should be engaged in - namely, canyoning. Best described as "a huge waterpark made by nature" , I'll let the pics do the talking. Canyoning in Rodellar comes highly recommended by the Upskill crash test dummies! And then all too soon the final day of climbing was upon us. And with it the realisation that, hell , there's a bunch of routes the guys did not want to leave Rodellar without bagging. It happens every camp. The final day is
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from Upskill Climbing
Day seven of climbing. This aint some namby-pamby climbing camp where you do five days of climbing. You barely get used to the rock on a five day trip. Not only that, because it's five days, you don't want to rest, so you peak on day two, and then get more and more tired and your climbing generally gets worse as the trip progresses. Nooo! Our Upskill camps go for two weeks, with rest scheduled so you can actually keep improving and climbing 100% for the whole time. The morning of day seven was spent at our
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from Upskill Climbing
Ahh, the infamous rest day. Kirsty, May and Kirill had heard about a nice day hike. Just a few hours. Good-o. See ya guys, have a nice walk. Seven hours later, three broken bodies trudge up the stairs of the Upskill apartment with tales of endless scree slopes and spiky bushes. Glad I stayed at home. Must say, I'm not a fan of hiking unless it leads to a supercrag. Here's a couple pics from the adventure... Kirill points the way Walking the endless ridgeline The next morning was a crisp one, and saw us ...
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from Upskill Climbing
Our "rest" day included adventures such as hiking through the canyon, visiting quaint churches on the top of hills that were locked, scoping sectors not yet visited, and for myself, an epic getting lost on the way to La Pincenetta sector (ordinarily a 1hr 15min approach) and having no option but to swim down a canyon. Freezing and a bit scary! At least there was a nice sunset as I walked back soaking wet. You can see the Gran Boveda , one of the "big 3" killer Rodellar sectors in this pic. We all slept ...
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from Upskill Climbing
Hey Hey! Welcome to the Rodellar 2010 Upskill Climbing Camp . New places, new faces! The aim? Heaps of super enjoyable limestone, learning, improvement. Have a holiday, go home with skills ! I've been waiting for this one for a while :) So, Rodellar! What are we talking here? North east Spain, three hours from Barcelona. Limestone. 400 climbs. Lots of tufas, lots of very impressive steep routes! Rodellar as marked. Sport climbing centre of the universe. Our willing team members for this foray into ...
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from Ice Factor Blog
Today was the last day of The Ice Factor's 4 day winter skills course led by Guy. This time the places were taken by members of the London Met Police Mountaineering Club, John, Dennis, Kirsty, David, Neil and Alice. They had great alpine weather on the first 3 days and real Scottish weather on the last. The group ranged from first time winter walkers through to old, rusty mountaineers. The first day was about safe movement around the mountains, weather and avalanche conditions, this was done on Buachaille
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