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Author Archives: oligrounsell

China

April 11, 2018by oligrounsell 2 Comments

“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 […]

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Trad Climbing

Charity, Electricity and Oil Paintings

April 26, 2017by oligrounsell 2 Comments

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 […]

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Trad Climbing

Mexico Walls

December 19, 2016by oligrounsell Leave a comment

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 […]

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Trad Climbing

North Wales, some good ones

July 3, 2016by oligrounsell Leave a comment

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 […]

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Trad Climbing

The Winter Drag

April 1, 2016by oligrounsell Leave a comment

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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Bouldering, Sport Climbing, Trad Climbing

Bits of Summer

October 7, 2015by oligrounsell Leave a comment

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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Sport Climbing, Trad Climbing

In Vogue- Ireland

July 16, 2015by oligrounsell Leave a comment

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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Trad Climbing

Wah Wah Wah

June 13, 2015by oligrounsell Leave a comment

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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Sport Climbing

Megalopa

April 22, 2015by oligrounsell Leave a comment

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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Sport Climbing

Moving about on rocks etc

April 15, 2015by oligrounsell Leave a comment

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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Trad Climbing

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