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Monthly Archives: July 2011
The Red Zone – T minus 12 hours
For six months of the year we can only marvel at its splendor, crisp red rock punctuated by soft sandy lines of weakness. For the devotee this is where Gogarth climbing its at. Steep and sustain climbing with just enough … Continue reading
Pass
Spent a lovely day up the Llanberis Pass, we climb opn the Plexus Buttress again, as the weather was so pleasant. We climbed the easier left hand one of the of the …xus’s. Lovely climbing, and no harder, if anything … Continue reading
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Alzheimer’s Onsights
With age comes experience, and I would like to think I have accrued a fair amount of that over the years, and there are routes that I climb regularly and each hold is like shaking hands with an old friend. … Continue reading
RAC Boulders and California
Well, despite my rather emotional morning remembering my friend and the worst times in my life, I can assure you that I am OK. So I hit the RAC boulders in the afternoon, did the circuit in rapid time, and … Continue reading
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Depression
I had lay in my bed for three days, locked the door, turned off my phone and as I shut out the world behind a thick curtain, my world faded to black. Sporadically I would cry on and off until … Continue reading
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Crouchan Evening
Well, the weather was and still is amazing over here in Wales! I did try to get out during the day bouldering but the Pass was rammed so went shopping instead. Then headed up after work with Katie to climb … Continue reading
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Olympics 2020: What Will It Take to Put a British Climber on the Podium?
With the news that climbing has been short listed for the Olympics in 2020, I thought I’d ponder a situation that on the one hand is hypothetical, but on the other if climbing reaches its Olympic Dream; then is the … Continue reading
Trikes on the Roof of the World
Ex-local and climber, Paul Pritchard is trying to raise funds for an epic journey across the Himalaya on a recumbant tricycle. Paul rose to fame in climbing cirlces during the late 1980′s and early 1990′s, when he put up a … Continue reading
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South Stack Day: No’s 94 and 95
Its been a great week, however the work stopped last night, and I enjoyed a few pints in the Heights Hotel, I will have to do a blog on the Heights, as it is just incredible. Anyway I awoke to … Continue reading
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Work, Work, Work……and Play
I have for the last eight or nine days. I have lost count been teaching various people climbing, from basic movement coaching to escaping the system, and everything else in between. My last post was from Wednesday, so I’ll start … Continue reading
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