from The Adventure Blog
When it comes to sleeping in the backcountry a good tent and a comfortable sleeping bag go a long way to ensuring a good nights sleep. But any backpacker will tell you, to live the true life of luxury, you also need a good sleeping pad. Of course, plenty of gear manufacturers provide durable, comfortable pads for our camping adventures, but few give you the complete package – compact and light weight sleeping pads that you actually look forward to using. High Peak , a company that specializes in quality
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from Dave MacLeod Climbing
The soaring crack pitch of Mucklehouse Wall, E5 6a Since completing the Longhope Direct, our trip on Orkney has been light of step but heavy of leg. The team are all feeling a tad fatigued from great efforts of rigging, filming and eating a lot of cake to replace all the calories that you seem to burn here. For me it’s been a lovely slow release and realisation that the route is done and I can wake up a little more to the sights and sounds of Hoy without the blinkering weight of focus on the project that
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from Mountains and Water
Since joining the Moon Climbing team this year, I have had the opportunity to try a number of items made by this small grassroots climbing company based in Sheffield. Though many climbers of a certain age will automatically recognize Ben Moon’s huge contributions to sport climbing and bouldering in the 1980s and 1990s, these days a younger generation may know him primarily through his company. I ordered a number of items that I felt that I could use and that might find favor with American climbers and
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from Dave MacLeod Climbing
Seven of Nine V14 I still can’t believe the Sky Pilot project went down last night! I was buzzing so much I was unable to go to bed until 5 am, and lay wide-eyed until Freida burst into life at 7. The crucial difference after all those sessions? Several small but crucial ones. First, I had genuinely detached myself from expectation of success. When it’s at your limit, time and time again this seems to be crucial for realising true focus of energy at the right moment, free of interference from the ...
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from SAIS Northern Cairngorms
Coire an t Sneachda the Northern Corries from Loch Morlich A spring scene with a compact and stable snowpack.
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from Dave MacLeod Climbing
Holding the crux. A good feeling Right now I’m totally locked on with my highball project in the glen. Progress has been superb and It’s gone from a distant prospect to feeling very possible in a short time, thanks to all that training. It’s really at my limit though, so I have to accept that every good session might be the best before I lose ground. It doesn’t matter - I’m enjoying trying, a lot. It’s only when really committed in a die hard way to a project that the windows open up to ...
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from Life in the Vertical
Bardsey Island and an incoming Squall. Martin Chester crosses the Bardsey Ripple Hidden away at the end of the Llyn peninsular, looking out across to the remote Bardsey Island is a small crag that packs a big punch. Only 60ft high this compact and complex buttress harbours one of the best single pitch E2's in Wales. It is the Rock Idol of North Wales, steep juggy and intricate. The rock resembles a classic loose horrorshow, however when climbing on it the rock feels far more solid than it looks. I have ...
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