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 […]
Category Archives: Trad Climbing
The scary stuff…
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 […]
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 […]
Pesto, Pasta, Bacon
Waking up on my first day in Bangor, I opened my curtains to glorious blue skies. As guessed, freshers week, and the weather is mint. My first thoughts wandered towards […]
Final Buzz
As September draws on, and with moorland objectives not looking a go, I have been back at the usual grit crags, scraping what I can from this years grit season. […]
Moor Moors next year please
As summer held on to the lower grounds I ventured up onto the Moorlands, where autumn was beginning to make an appearance. A day after returning from Portugal, Shining Clough […]
Bangor is a go…
August 17th, results day. I was down in Portugal, and managed to get into Bangor Uni as I swanned about above the sea. For the last year I’ve been saying […]
Tuna and Crackers
Running along the Swiss and Italian border we have the Bregaglia Mountain Range of the Eastern Alps. THE mountain of this range, the one everyone recognises, the one that takes […]
Oli Grounsell 