from Dave MacLeod Climbing
With Scotland being hammered by the usual January gales and rain, I’ve been directing my climbing attentions over Christmas to a sustained attack on the fantastic TCA bouldering centre in Glasgow. I climbed a mountain of fantastic problems and definitely feel stronger for it, especially on big moves. There’s a lot of climbing space there and there are no shortage of leaps and jumps between the holds (some performance related comments on this over on my other blog ). An uninterrupted spell of good ...
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from James Pearson
France, Italy, France, Italy, Greece, Italy, France, Austria, France, Italy, Austria, England, Austria, Itally, Switzerland, France, Spain, Mexico, France - My last two months... This time of year is always hectic, it seems like the majority of my work and non climbing commitments all come at the same time, which is a good thing as it leaves a lot of the year free, but can sometimes be frustrating when climbing has to be put on the back burner, and you feel yourself growing fat from all the eating out and
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from Upskill Climbing
The two final climbing days were upon us. Spartan Wall offered some new slabby warmups up to 35m in length, and Ruth and Dave decided to stay on here while the rest of the crew headed uphill to Spartacus. Ruth gingerly pads up a huge tongue of rock on Spartan Wall. Kurt bags Yo-Yo 6a+. A newie on Spartan Wall. An odd sight at the cliff! Spartacus hosts a great collection of routes in an orange bowl and our team ate them up. Harakiri 6b+, Tales Of Greek Heroes 6b+ and Les Amazones 6c were all dispatched as
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from Jon Glassberg
I recently got back from climbing in New England for a week with the LT11 crew and we had a blast. It was great to get outside and climb on real rock for a change, pulling on plastic can get old pretty fast. I have always wanted to try the ...
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from Rock Climbing UK
The sandstone outcrops of Kent and Sussex are many people’s first introduction to climbing on real rock. The friendly nature of the cliffs, easy set-ups and relaxed bottom roping make these cliffs a perfect step up from indoor climbing gyms. Bowles and Harrisons are only short walk from Eridge train station which is less than [...] A guide to Southern Sandstone Guest Post from Mountain-Trips.co.uk is a post from: Rock Climbing UK , an online UK climbing magazine, written BY UK climbers FOR UK climbers.
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from James Pearson
Oh I do like to be beside the sea side, oh I do like to be beside the sea, however I’d rather be 4 hours further up the road sat at my parents home than waiting in a cafe in Ramsgate for my car to be MOT’d and serviced so I can legally drive again on UK roads, oh I do like to be beside the sea! England, I thank you for not raining on me, if you could keep it up for a few more weeks I would be very grateful! A few weeks too much? How about a few days at least? No? Ok, then back to crossing my fingers...
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from Nalle Hukkataival
It's been forever since my last blog post. As much as I love being constantly on the road, sometimes I just need a little break from it all; hotel rooms, airports, rental cars, airline food, speaking a foreign language, people that come and go… Traveling can get tough sometimes, so I've been chilling in Finland for a while and getting psyched to hit the road again. © Nalle Hukkataival The climbing season here in Finland has been over for long after we got a record amount of snow already at the end of
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from Phillip Schaal
Well I just flew in from Sydney and boy are my arms tired. No but seriously my head is still up there in the clouds we were flying in. Jet lag has never hit me so hard. going over to Australia I didn’t have much of a problem. Going over I was on a night flight which I slept the entire way, arriving in the morning. Coming back I left on Sept 9th at 3PM. Then I arrived in Denver, Sept 9th at 4PM. Since then I haven't been able to fall asleep before 4AM. Over all my trip was one of the best trips I’ve ...
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from Ethan Pringle
So, I havent been climbing a ton on the real rock lately, mostly been climbing in the gym a bunch and getting psyched for the fall. And really, I havent had a ton of motivation to climb in the gym either, so it doesnt feel like Ive been climbing very much at all in the [...]
published: about 1 year ago
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from The Adventure Blog
It's the age old argument, Sport vs. Trad with gym rats getting all kinds of derision from both camps. Want to see just how great gym climbing can be? Then check out the video below and see for yourself. Now I'm the last person to say that climbing in a gym is better than being outside on the real rock and breathing the fresh air, but when you simply can't get outside for a climb, then the gym can be a great alternative. It just needs to be set up to offer a great challenge. Thanks to William for sharing
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