China
“Excuse me sir, you need to cook the fish before you eat it” Fast forward 6 hours and my time in China with Roo was about to reach a dramatic […]
Author Archives: oligrounsell
Charity, Electricity and Oil Paintings
The plan was to leave Mexico, get to Oz, earn some money and then sack it to the Grampians. I had managed to secure a ‘job’ selling oil paintings door […]
Mexico Walls
After a month or so completing a granite apprenticeship in Squamish and the Bugaboos, one might expect that the classic North American climbing road trip would continue South with the […]
North Wales, some good ones
Already I appear to have finished uni and my time in North Wales, for now, has come to a close. There will be no more early morning post party scenes in our […]
The Winter Drag
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. […]
Bits of Summer
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 […]
In Vogue- Ireland
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 […]
Wah Wah Wah
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 […]
Megalopa
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 […]
Moving about on rocks etc
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 […]
Oli Grounsell 