Piz Badile & other adventures in the Bregaglia Maria and I took Ruby the campervan over to the Alps for a couple of weeks in July, with the North Ridge of the Piz Badile being the main objective. Our preparation wasn’t the best, with Maria having injured her shoulder falling off… Continue reading
North Pembrokeshire Sea Cliffs Mid-September brought sunny weather to SW Wales, and Maria and I had a few days climbing some excellent routes on slabby sea cliffs near St David’s. Low tide was conveniently around lunchtime, making the middle of the day ideal for climbing. At Porth-Clais we climbed Diagonal… Continue reading
Classic Rock routes on the Cobbler, hillwalking/running on Stob a’ Choire Odhair & Stob Ghabhar, and a bit of cragging on Ben An Over the August bank holiday weekend, Maria and I had a few good days in the Scottish hills, climbing Punster’s Crack and Ardgarten Arete on the Cobbler,… Continue reading
Adventures in the Terskey Ala-Too, Kyrgyzstan Part 2 – the expedition Having got all our kit to the camp, we started eying up the mountains nearby. Most were only identified by the spot-heights on our old Soviet military maps, but the 4356m peak immediately next to our camp actually… Continue reading
Adventures in the Terskey Ala-Too, Kyrgyzstan Part 1 – getting there, logistics & acclimatisation John & Claire took a bit longer to get there than the rest of us… Having set out from York in mid-March, driving their trusty ex Glasgow Police Mercedes Sprinter (now converted into a campervan… Continue reading
Maria and I have had Tower Ridge on the ‘to do’ list for a long time. Winter climbing on the North face of the Ben is always an amazing experience, and Tower Ridge has quite a reputation – the description in the SMC guide starts by saying it is ‘one… Continue reading
In just over 2 weeks in Australia, Maria and I visited family & friends in Melbourne, explored the spectacular Great Ocean Road and Wilson’s Promontory, saw amazing wildlife (including kangaroos, koalas, wombats, possums, eastern brown & eastern tiger snakes), but as this is a mountaineering club website, I’ll focus on… Continue reading
The forecast wasn’t exactly nailed on, but there was enough chance of dry weather to persuade me and Maria to head north for the bank holiday weekend, so on Saturday morning we found ourselves leaving the midge-infested carpark at Linn of Dee, with some camping stuff, climbing gear and optimism.… Continue reading
With rain forecast for Friday night and more on Sunday, Saturday promised a short good weather window in the Lakes, so Maria and I headed for Grey Crag (on High Stile, above Buttermere). We’d never climbed there before but it turned out to be a very nice spot with a few… Continue reading
After the disappointment of bad weather for the club’s winter weekend at the beginning of March, Maria and I made the most of the following two weekends with some climbing and hillwalking in great weather. 13th – 15th March Leaving York at 3am (didn’t get back from London until 8pm the… Continue reading
