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From Wintry hike up Stony Cove Pike
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From Cheeky Chamonix Break
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From I've entered the Marmotte 2018!
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From Black Forest Climbing Meet
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From BMC Lundy Festival 2017
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From Champagne & the Great War - weird extremes, Luxury & Suffering
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From l'Etape du Tour 2017
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From Tour Germaine
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From Col du Granon Walk
Author: Pete
Founder of Sterling Adventures!
A wintry hike up Stony Cove Pike...
We took advantage of a rendezvous with Dawn and Austin for a cheeky long weekend of skiing for Laetitia, this was followed by “a wee bit longer” for the boyz!
The 2017 Etape du Tour was an utterly incredible day! And the build up and training that got me to the finish line was fantastic too. So for 2018 I decided I should do something similar…
Last week we were rock climbing and visiting friends in the south half of Germany’s Black Forest, Schwarzwald Süd…
Lundy is undoubtedly one of Britain’s most lovely destinations. It has so much to offer everyone in so many different ways! And not just climbers – ornithologists, marine life lovers, ecologists, people with interests in historic places, those who just want to escape to somewhere quiet with no traffic, etc., etc!
On the way home from the Briancon we broke the journey down by calling in on the Champagne region to find out if any deals were to be had. They were! We grabbed a box of six bottles of Canard – Duchene for much much less than we pay back in the UK. 🙂
To try and gain some altitude acclimatisation in preparation for the l’Etape du Tour, I’d cycled up to the Col du Galibier (2642m) from La Grave, did a high level ridge walk from the Col de Granon, climbed a ten pitch rock climb that started at 2189m, and finished by sleeping the night at the …
Steve, Laetitia, Zac, and I set off for what looked like an easily accessible and long (10 pitches) relatively easy (max grade 5+) rock climb. The guidebook said it was a short easy approach. It turned out to be super sunny, hot, very uphill, and well over an hour long. It was tough work for …
As part of the efforts to get acclimatised ready for the Etape du Tour – we had a great medium length walk with Steve, Sandra, Laetitia, and Zac from the 2413m high Col du Granon.
