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From Black Crag & Carrot Cakes
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From Open water swimming at Bosworth
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From OFD 1 to 2
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From The MBC Classic tops the American
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From Faces of Bucsecs
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From Lesser Garth (Girth) Cave
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From Sunday Afternoon Jolly
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From On the Ashby Canal
Year: 2012
Saturday was forecasted to be the better day of the weekend, but we were undecided where to climb.
I never learnt to swim well at school. In particular I never learnt front crawl. This was because I wasn’t allowed to wear glasses in the pool and therefore couldn’t see what the teacher was asking us to do (I’m quite short sighted!). So, having learnt breast stroke a few years ago, I decided that …
Whilst someone was haunched over their PC trying to enter the inner workings of the blog, we were resting in preparation for the weekend’s adventure. Hmm … I wonder which resulted in the most fun?! The weekend was a Chelsea Spelaeological Society meet-up at Whitewalls. We travelled down on Saturday morning and met 12 other …
We grabbed a cheap flight to Geneva and took the opportunity to survey the damage caused by the strong winds (nearly 80mph in the valley bottom) that passed through Chamonix last weekend.
Last weekend saw me exploring the Carpathian Mountains again. This time I went to Bucsecs, a mountain area just 2 hours drive from Bucharest, just at the border of Transylvania. This area is characteristic of its enormous rock faces but I saw some other friendly faces as well!
Yesterday at about 4.30AM this site was hacked by some idiot calling himself The Governor. Why?
We knew this cave was going to be a collector’s item even before we started. It was only 250 m long and Brendan thought it would occupy us for entire the day! There were also reports on the web of some rather squeezy bits. It was a good choice in the horrendous wet weather however, …
The weather forecast for Sunday was looking fantastic for a day out in the hills, so despite my slightly weak ankle it was just too much temptation to get out for a run.
As a special treat for my parents, my sister and I organised a trip on a barge for the day on the Ashby Canal. My Mum had always fancied a canal boat holiday and was therefore keen to try it out. We hired the boat from Stoke Golding, which is only a 13 mile run …
