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Surviving Winter
10 March 2014, 7:19 pm

Since getting back from a week of sun in Siurana at the start of January, winter was terrible. I did have visions of it being worse, but only ever so […]

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Night Stalker
26 March 2014, 11:13 pm

When Rob told me that the roof to the left of Tonight at Noon had been climbed by Stevie Haston I didn’t believe him. It just didn’t seem feasible. I […]

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Rare Lichen
10 April 2014, 5:09 pm

After a brief window of warm weather a few weeks ago, my attention started to drift towards some of the routes I would like to do in the mountains. These […]

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Finding something hard
16 June 2014, 8:59 pm

Over the past few months I have found myself down at LPT quite a few times, as I have become more and more motivated to find myself a real project. […]

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Ceuse 2014
13 August 2014, 12:12 pm

Situated at the far right hand side of the crag, looking back along the sweep of yellow and white limestone, a series of crimps and pockets weaves it’s way up […]

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The Tete
11 September 2014, 11:08 pm

Driving through the sleepy villages of Vallouise and Les Vigneaux for a bit of apres ski sport climbing this spring, I’d frequently gawp up at the towering limestone of the […]

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Autumn
15 October 2014, 6:19 pm

This time last year when I arrived in North Wales I had a great first couple of weeks before winter began to move in. All your options seem to be […]

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Winter- before christmas
11 December 2014, 2:32 pm

The first part of winter has mainly been bouldering for me, and so with out any further ado…. The highlight of this was climbing Ropes of Maui, but when I did […]

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Winter – after christmas
2 March 2015, 5:54 pm

At christmas time santa came down my chimney and gave me a new camera. Therefore I’ve been making a conscious effort over the past few months to take more photos, […]

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Moving about on rocks etc
15 April 2015, 8:14 am

This is not a blog post about hopping up rocks. I was introduced to climbing outdoors through trad climbing, and during my first few years on rock I didn’t clip any bolts, perhaps […]

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Megalopa
22 April 2015, 8:09 am

Last year I invested a bit of time at the start of the season into the iconic Liquid Ambar, it being my main focus for a while. I also had a […]

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Strong pic!

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Winter- before christmas / Ropes of Maui
11 December 2014, 2:32 pm

The first part of winter has mainly been bouldering for me, and so with out any further ado…. The highlight of this was climbing Ropes of Maui, but when I did […]

Source: Oli Grounsell

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Ropes of Maui
11 December 2014, 2:32 pm

On my first acquaintance with Ropes of Maui (8B) I thought this is really quite hard and I will need to improve my climbing to do it. One or two of the […]

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Wah Wah Wah
13 June 2015, 9:23 am

In climbing I would consider myself quite lucky. I’ll scape my way up something when I don’t deserve it or find the good weather when it’s raining elsewhere, and in […]

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[Doylo]

With Caff having an epic too it seems like a toughy! Ben Moon, 5 days in 93 

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In Vogue- Ireland
16 July 2015, 3:33 pm

Last summer I spent 8 weeks or so climbing in France, where the weather was generally stormy. Europe on a whole was experiencing shit weather and we had to bail […]

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Bits of Summer
7 October 2015, 9:58 am

Arriving at the car park short changed for the metre I did a little sweep around the elderly clientele to find that even my boyish face was intimidating, and in […]

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The Winter Drag
1 April 2016, 10:09 am

I walked down past the empty Christmas stalls, in the cold pouring rain, the puddles seeping into my trainers and Stop the Calvary by Jona Lewie echoing from a distance. […]

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[Fiend]

Strong post and a good recognition that it's been a fucking turd winter.