A complaint to Northern Rail
This morning I was subjected to some awful customer service by the Northern Rail staff at Manchester Piccadilly. On this occasion I decided to stand up and be counted and […]
This morning I was subjected to some awful customer service by the Northern Rail staff at Manchester Piccadilly. On this occasion I decided to stand up and be counted and […]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about […]
I’ve always appreciated ‘good‘ graffiti. Colourful swathes of paint, in an otherwise grey and sterile urban environment, fill me with joy. The talent of some of the graffiti artists who […]
I am a cynic! Always have been always will be! If it seems too good to be true then it probably is. Normally I would never bother entering a […]
The last night of the Lundy trip culminated in some heavy drinking and a table traversing competition. In the barn, the main dining table is perfect for traversing underneath. We […]
It was a day like any other. It started off with an average breakfast and a gentle amble to the cliffs where the route American Beauty, HVS 5a resides. We […]
After arriving on Lundy Island following a choppy ferry journey, excitement among the MOB was high. Once we had dropped off our bags, and had a quick non-alcoholic drink at […]
Getting to Lundy Island is an epic in itself. For us the starting point was a 9 hour drive from Manchester to Ilfracombe! On a good day this journey can […]
Lundy island lies off the coast of North Devon, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Bristol Channel, with nothing between it and America. A granite outcrop, three and a half […]
I may have slightly deceived you with the title of my post there! We did intend to get out on Dow Crag in the lakes. Unfortunately as is often the […]
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Last Friday Derek, Pat, Cat and I had a nice after work session over at Deeply Vale. If you haven’t visited Deeply Vale before it is an unassuming crag, but […]
When the rest of the country is sopping wet, dripping with disappointment, Llandudno proudly bathes in sunshine, like a last bastion of hope in an otherwise dreary world. This is […]
This week I have mostly been partying! It’s been a bit of a hazy week really! Last weekend I had to forego any climbing activity as I was at the […]
I’ve just stumbled across this new little gadget, the Biolite camp stove and at first glance it looks like a pretty cool idea. A stove that burns any bio mass […]
Firstly sorry for the lack of posts over the last couple of weeks. It has been a bit of a busy one! Guilfest was the main attraction. Some good partying […]
The Metro, a bastion for shoddy journalism has yet again pushed the bar! Yesterday they went with the headline: “Leo Houlding becomes first Briton to climb El Capitan.” Following on […]
The Cliffhanger festival in Sheffield has been cancelled due to the bad weather. Torrential rain has been falling across the county and Sheffield has been badly hit. Richard Eyre, head […]
When the rain comes in and desperation hits we turn to the experience of Derek to find somewhere climbable. Yet again he didn’t let us down and we had a […]
Recently a group of stag do revellers ventured up Wales’ highest mountain, Snowdon in pyjamas and trainers. They managed it; got off the mountain alive and no doubt have a […]
Unfortunately due to the weather we didn’t manage to get out climbing this wekend. We did go indoors, but that isn’t really anything to write home about. Hopefully we will […]
A firm bastion of British Mountain climbing, Mike Westmacott has sadly died at the age of 87. Mike was part of the team that successfully scaled Everest, the world’s highest […]
As regular as clockwork the MOB were out again last Sunday. As my previous post mentioned, rain had been a prominent feature over the last few weeks. Fortunately, when it […]
Bear Grylls, the media lovelies’ adventurer has been busy again. This time he has been part of the Olympic preparations, hurtling down a zip wire with the Olympic torch! Watched […]
6 days till the official start of British summer and for me it can’t come soon enough! Not that it will change anything, apart from my naive expectations. For the […]
One of the great things about being a member of a climbing club is the trips that are readily organised by enthusiastic members. Our trip for the Jubilee weekend was […]
On a recent trip to the Gower it became apparent that within our group at least there is a wealth of optimism when it comes to weather conditions and fires. […]
Slacklining, an activity requiring a mixture of balance, technique and core strength. All of which I thought I had (apart from technique), but alas I was wrong. Any balance and […]
On Sunday the 27th of May the MOB were out in force again. In attendance were Derek, Dom, Jordan T, Mark, Rick and me. Our destination was Sergeants crag slabs […]
In my haste to write a post about my fall the other day I failed to mention one of the crucial things every climber needs, a good belayer. On this […]
On Friday the 18th of May a merry band of rock monkeys and musicians descended on the Don Whillans memorial hut, at the Roaches in Staffordshire. A weekend of climbing, […]
At the weekend I took my biggest ever fall. I was climbing at the Roaches (UK) on an imposing roof climb called The Sloth, HVS 5a. Before the climb I […]
A monday evening trip to Wilton 3 near Bolton brought success and new experiences. On such an unassuming evening big moves were made and progresss was chartered! Firstly Jordan G’s […]
After 2 weeks of dreary rain, Saturday marked a brief break in the weather. Making a dash for this sliver of opportunity were Will, Mark, Steve and myself. Setting off […]
Although I feel that I have nowhere near enough experience to write such a post I thought it would be interesting to catalogue the things experience has taught me in […]
After a day of dreary weather on Saturday I awoke on Sunday to find the sun bursting through the clouds. Jordan Taylor picked me up in Fallowfield at around 9am […]
Whilst I am in the zone with writing some blog posts I thought it would be nice to write about my first experience climbing an E1. For many of us […]
Whilst at a crag in El Chorro I recently heard someone say that climbing is 80% confidence and 20% footwork. To be honest I think this is bang on the […]
Since joining the MOB (Bury Mountaineering Club) I have relished getting out. The added pleasure of climbing with a group, the experiences, the banter and the booze all make for […]
As a young boy the idea of joining a club was met with youthful enthusiasm. By the age of 12 I had joined quite a few “clubs”, the cubs, a […]
Having never written a blog before, I thought it was time to warm up those typing fingers and get the juices flowing. First of all a little background on me […]