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Author Archives: oligrounsell

Winter – after christmas

March 2, 2015by oligrounsell Leave a comment

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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Trad Climbing

Ropes of Maui

December 11, 2014by oligrounsell Leave a comment

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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Bouldering

Autumn

October 15, 2014by oligrounsell Leave a comment

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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Trad Climbing

The Tete

September 11, 2014by oligrounsell Leave a comment

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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Trad Climbing

Ceuse 2014

August 13, 2014by oligrounsell Leave a comment

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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Sport Climbing

Finding something hard

June 16, 2014by oligrounsell Leave a comment

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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Sport Climbing

Rare Lichen

April 10, 2014by oligrounsell Leave a comment

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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Trad Climbing

Night Stalker

March 26, 2014by oligrounsell 2 Comments

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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Trad Climbing

Surviving Winter

March 10, 2014by oligrounsell Leave a comment

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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Bouldering, Trad Climbing

Siurana. The only way is up.

January 15, 2014by oligrounsell Leave a comment

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 […]

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Sport Climbing

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