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From Scottish West Coast Staycation
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From A Cornish Lockdown Release
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From Moroccan Rock
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From A Month in Spain...
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From New River Gorge
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From Seneca Rocks
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From Lakeland August Bank Holiday
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From German Visitors
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From A Break in the Training
Category: Rock Climbing
Climbing rock (aka Free Climbing).
One positive, if such thing makes any sense, from Covid-19 is that many people have discovered just how amazing parts of the UK are! Is there really any need to fly to far flung parts for our holidays every year? Well, I guess climbers always knew this as we spend every weekend, holiday day, etc. …
Well, thanks to Covid 19 it’s a over a year since we’ve managed to get away. But everything comes to an end and true enough a gradual relaxation of lockdown rules has finally allowed us to venture away from our base in the Lakes… Sure, we are fortunate enough to live in the Lake District …
I’ve just got home from an amazing rock climbing trip to the Moroccan Anti-Atlas mountains. I was last here fully ten years ago, and again I was based out of Tafraout…
We’ve just been lucky enough to return from a whole month in Spain, rock climbing and cycling based out of an apartment in Calpe…
The final destination on our American east coast adventure was the New River Gorge, or just the “New” as it seems to be called. We’d chosen to visit particularly because we hoped the seasonal autumn colours would be on full show at their best – we weren’t let down, it’s a beautiful place…
Our first venue was the spectacular Seneca Rocks. Only just over two hours drive from Washington, and what a place…
It seems that global warming is real! Who knew? Anyway, that means that we had great weather for the August Bank Holiday in the Lakes, when really we all know it should have been raining… 😉 A Longish Bike Ride A day on the Water Paddling from Grasmere, via the Rothay and Rydal Water, to …
After getting back from the Alps our friends from Karlsruhe cam to stay for a few days. The weather wasn’t perfect (we had a bit of rain), but we got out a fair bit with them and enjoyed a wide range of Lakeland adventuring – canoeing, scrambling, climbing, walking, exploring the slate mines, etc! We …
Training for l’Etape du Tour had been going well, we’d even made our little 15 second “selfie videos” about our objectives for the Etape as requested by the Social Rider programme.
