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. […]
Category Archives: Sport Climbing
The pumpy stuff…
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
The Big 3
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 […]
The Peak keeps giving
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 […]
Summer Days
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 […]
Oli Grounsell 