Monthly Archives: May 2010

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I made a short post last night about my climbing yesterday, but it was late after I got in. I had succeeded on the Geordie Warcry, so went like any rock climber round to my friends house to say hello, … Continue reading →

Spent today man flailing at Pentrwyn. Failing on contusion, a F7a on the cut away. Rodney Mullen, and string of pearls. I seemed to be in the shade all dayn so we headed back to Bus Stop and put the … Continue reading →

Last night Pete Robin made the first ascent of the new link of Wild Understatement into Youthansia. A link he had been trying for a while, and had only been denied an ascent when we were there last week and … Continue reading →

Well I saw Dave Pickford’s ’15 Route to do before you Die’ feature in Climber Magazine. I felt that the routes went from the truly great to the totally ridiculous. In essence the routes were more like 15 of the … Continue reading →

Well I had another day teach lead climbing, this was an intro course so the main aim was to give my two clients the fundamental skills required to lead safely on there own. I concentrated on placing gear (Nuts, Hexes, … Continue reading →

Well another day another dollar, so I am back at the Brenin teaching on an Intro to Leading weekend. We headed down to Tremadog today, and it was hotter than a hot thing on a hot day. It was like … Continue reading →

I arranged to go to LPT with Pete Robins today, and was blown away with the mans ability to crank through the hardest of moves through the steepest of terrains. I have climbed with him many times before but never … Continue reading →

My housemate has recently purchase this new ClickUp belay device by Climbing Technology. Marketed as an alternative to the Petzl Gri-Gri, i decided to take it for a test drive at LPT sports climbing today. What I found was a … Continue reading →

Any reader of this blog will have realised that I have an obsession with slate, and in particular the big and classic routes. Over the years I have climbed many of them all over the quarries and recently my partner … Continue reading →