Category Archives: sports climbing

Posts about sports climbing in North Wales and beyond. Normally the bolted routes on the great orme or in the slate quarries.

Get your Pump On

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Mark Reeves

Well after work I headed up to Bus Stop Quarry, with an eye for Geordie Warcry, hoping for the sun to have dried it out. Unfortunately whilst the hard climbing was dry the bottom was being rained on. The clip … Continue reading →

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Costa Del LPT

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Mark Reeves

Well the weather was so bad yesterday that a shgort wall session was all I could get inspired to do. Something to do with a hangover from hell! Today was different, although not very impressive in the vale of Llanberis, … Continue reading →

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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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Mumbo Jumbo Area: Topo

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Mark Reeves

Well after cragging the other day I put together a topo on the Mumbo Jumbo Area, I also put a few pictures up from the last time I was there climbing on this post. 1. Mumbo Jumbo F6a 2. Unknown … 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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Sport Climbing in Bariloche

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Mark Reeves

The second day we went to this sport crag on the outskirts of Bariloche, just of teh Ruta 40, as you head south towards El Boson. There were some great routes, and for the first time in the trip we … Continue reading →

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All good in Ibanez

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Mark Reeves

Well the first couple of days in Ibanez has been great, unfortunately one of the group has got an eye infection, so I have driven him 2 hours back to Coyhaique. The group made there first multipitch leads on a … Continue reading →

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Cragging Time

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Mark Reeves

Well after a few days of mainly paperwork, I finally got out route checking (aka Cragging) with one of the other instructors MB from Canada. We climbed on the Nols crag, then Cerro Mckay. The climbing on Cerro Mackay is … Continue reading →

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Never Believe A Stranger!

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Mark Reeves

Well, having asked someone at the crag what grade a route was I got a rather convincing answer that the route was F7b+, I then thought the route was way too easy. Having looked on the UKC logbooks it turned … Continue reading →

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