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A club day trip to Blacknor North to avoid getting hit by the sun much and staying in the shade for most of the day! #sportclimbing #climbing #rockclimbing #dorset #dorsetclimbing #climbingdorset #weclimbuk #ukclimbing #leadclimbing #climbing_pictures_of_instagram #portland #portlandclimbing
Bit of an unusual crag today, Avon Gorge next to Bristol city centre. The climbing was brilliant, as was the reaction of the crowds and tourists. Surprisingly quiet with climbers, really quite noisy with the A4! With something for everyone, we even snuck in a couple of slippery sport routes...
Some more photos from the Peak District meet, we had a good turn out and climbed everything from V.Diffs to E1s. We spread ourselves out a little bit and climbed at Stanage Plantation and Popular, Bamford, Shining Clough, Yarncliffe, and Lawrencefield.
A lovely day in the Peak District, most headed to Stanage (hopefully more photos to follow). Four of us escaped the heat at Shining Clough - once we'd found our way there, not easy...We were rewarded with long routes in the high moor. Followed by birthday celebrations at the curry house 🙂
Some more photos from the recent North Wales trip where 7 of us climbed on and off over 5 days. We tackled everything from 150m multi-pitch Diffs, to hard quartzite cracks.
The crags we climbed at were; Craig Pant Ifan, Clogwyn yr Oen, Craig Bwlch y Moch, Holyhead Mountain, Tryan, Craig yr Wrysgan, and Craig y Tonnau.
Superb, we'll be back for more next year!
If Easyjet must cancel your flight there could be worse ways to spend the night and day. Hilton and breakfast / wine, then Climb Up next to Bordeaux airport, which also has excellent beer! Hopefully tonight's flight won't be cancelled (it's already delayed....)
Penultimate day for the Ariège trip and final day for others who had to head home early. More grey and slightly wetter than other days 😔.
A couple went to do a 12 pitch route up a mountain but rain and fog stopped play! But the others headed to Calamès and had a great day on 2 & 3 star routes, with 4 golden eagles spotted too!
Another super hot day, but careful planning meant we were as cool as we could be, in a beautiful green setting.
Lots of grades pushed, with post climb moaning about sand bagging and disgust about route down grades on UKC.
All followed by relaxing beers and a dip in the freezing river for the one hardy sole amongst us.
Fantastic day climbing in the sun at Bowles.
All the normal sandstone highjinx: complete confusion on the double grades in Rockfax, no foothold starts, quickly followed by missing the huge footholds because you can't see them anymore, and continual hope you'll find something better for your hands.
In summary, great fun!! Let's go again soon!
Wow, Sunday was a busy day with 17 HMA climbers heading out. Most headed to Swanage, spreading out between Subluminal, Boulder Ruckle, and Cattle Troughs, providing hard, committing, or slabbier climbing respectively. Another group headed to Portland for some low/mid grade sport climbing. Varied climbing from F3 to F6b+ and VD to E2 6a.
...after the training day, we got down to business at the rock amphitheatre of Cattle Troughs, Swanage. For some, it was only day 2 of trad climbing and we were leading 20m routes. A bit of sea swell added to the excitement, everyone stayed dry despite a visit to a sopping wet Flake Ledge!
For anyone interested and free tomorrow to help keep the climbing safe for everyone on #Portland
A busy training session last night practising how to do the changeover on a sport route. Essential skills for sport climbing outside - hopefully that's another 9 members ready for the outdoors! Big thank you to Martin for running the session, and Richard @ Climb Hayling Climbing Wall for the venue 🙂
Come join us this weekend for some indoor climbing.
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Our first social meet of they year, good company, food, and gin...at the Gin and Olive in Southsea. Really nice to get together again, with everyone looking forward to this year's climbing season.
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