Winter – after christmas
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, […]
Author Archives: oligrounsell
Ropes of Maui
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 […]
Autumn
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 […]
The Tete
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 […]
Ceuse 2014
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 […]
Finding something hard
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. […]
Rare Lichen
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 […]
Night Stalker
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 […]
Surviving Winter
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 […]
Siurana. The only way is up.
To kick off 2014 we went to Spain, in Spain we went to Siurana, and in Siurana we sport climbed. This was my first time here, and walking under El […]
Oli Grounsell 