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Category Archives: Sport Climbing

The pumpy stuff…

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

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

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

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

The Big 3

December 11, 2013by oligrounsell Leave a comment

Climbing E8, F8a and font 8a would I guess to many mark a certain level of competency in their given sub worlds of climbing. The hardest one to attain being […]

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Bouldering, Sport Climbing, Trad Climbing

The Peak keeps giving

September 19, 2013by oligrounsell Leave a comment

I write as if I’m never coming back… Yesterday and with another wet day cop out we headed to Rubicon. This was definitely going to be my last day out […]

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Sport Climbing

Summer Days

July 16, 2013by oligrounsell Leave a comment

Summer, well. So far so good. Since finishing exams a big part of my climbing has been throwing myself at sport routes and trying to get fit again. At the […]

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Sport Climbing, Trad Climbing

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