Category: Climbing
Climbing – rock, ice, mountains, boulders, etc.
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The First Cuckoo of Spring (oh, and Quayfoot Buttress)
Gimme even more Sunshine
Lower Falcon Crag
Wednesday was the first of this summer’s CC evening climbing meets in the Lakes. Thankfully the weather was perfect – sunny, warm, and of course dry. Hooray! Strangely with such lovely conditions only a select gang bothered to turn up. I wonder if it was the choice of venue? Lower Falcon Crag in Borrowdale is …
Spring Rock – Another Bravo Lapp
A short break to Devonshire
On the tourist trail at Milford Sound
After a big day in the mountains I decided it was time to enjoy some more relaxing activities and check out the tourist trail in Milford Sound. So we drove down to Milford Sound and took a boat trip through the sound and out to the Tasman sea. We saw lots of wildlife and jaw …
Discovering the Darran’s
Fjordland in the South West of New Zealand is one of the wettest places on Earth, receiving 200 days of rainfall in an average year and up to 8000mm of rain a year. The Darran mountains in the north of Fjordland are also one of New Zealand’s most spectacular and best rock and alpine climbing …
Sunny Scrambles in New Zealand
I’ve been lucky enough to get a whole month off work, so here I am in New Zealand! I’ve had a few days of running, mountain biking, rock climbing and hiking around Wanaka and getting over my jet lag, so today it was time to venture further afield. So with a good weather forecast we …