Category Archives: slate

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Its Definitely Slate Season!

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Mark Reeves

Well, I have mainly been on the Slate recently, there are two reasons for this the first being that we now seem to be suffering from April’s showers, whereas in April we had mays sun. So Slate has been great … Continue reading →

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More Slate….

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Mark Reeves

Well I headed out this morning with Rich, not climbed with him before so always interesting ‘breaking in’ a new partner. I know that the Universoty of wales Bangor has been doing some interesting work on the effect of perception … Continue reading →

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Great day Cragging

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Mark Reeves

Had an awesome day today, after a damp start we decide to head to the Great Ormes and climbed a few easy routes around mumbo jumbo area, before moving round the corner to climb contusion F6c. Its a route I … Continue reading →

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Bus Stop and an New Toy

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Mark Reeves

Well I spent more of the day tidying, running around the bank and post office, and generally trying to achieve things in life that I usually put off until they are absolutely inperitive that I do them, so hopefull I … Continue reading →

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A mixed day out

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Mark Reeves

A varied day for me today, I started with a well deserved lie-in, after I suggested to my group of the first night we were camping that trying to get away at 8.30am, and them not being ready to leave … Continue reading →

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A Question of Conscience

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Mark Reeves

I have been interested with teh quarries for a long time and spend much of my time enjoying the legacy of the 1980′s pioneers, as well as looking at the history of the time. This looking back at the history … Continue reading →

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Rock Improver with PYB

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Mark Reeves

Well spent the day with Stu MacAleese and a great little team on a rock improver course for Plas Y brenin, we visited bus stop and seamtress areas on the Slate. The weather was amazing as you can see. I … Continue reading →

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Last Few days of Llanberis Madness

Posted on September 5, 2010 by Mark Reeves

Well I set myself a challenge to enjoy the most of my short time left in Llanberis, and the weather obliged and was nice and sunny. So I managed to climb a few of my favourite routes over the last … Continue reading →

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Packing Your life into Two Bags

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Mark Reeves

Well I have been a busy boy so far this week. I managed to sell my van that required me to clean it for the first time in three years! I have also managed to enjoy some of this summer … Continue reading →

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A quick hit

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Mark Reeves

Just ran up the starting five pitches of Sunchaser wall in Vivian. It was good to shake off the cobwebs from a month of near continuous rain. Was great to touch real rock again. May well go to the wall … Continue reading →

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