China
“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 […]
Category Archives: Trad Climbing
The scary stuff…
Charity, Electricity and Oil Paintings
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 […]
Mexico Walls
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 […]
North Wales, some good ones
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
In Vogue- Ireland
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 […]
Moving about on rocks etc
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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