Category Archives: Climbing

20 things I’m longing to do in 2008 (Part One)

Tagged by Brenda, so… I shall start at 1 and see how far I get – so in no particular order: 1. Convert my Flickr Screensaver to WPF. I thought I’d start off with this as this is a mostly … Continue reading

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Firefox users more likely to rock climb!

Exclusive: Mozilla Secretly Launches A Viral Campaign For Firefox Techcrunch is reporting on an interesting video released by Mozilla about Firefox. Apparently Firefox users are 139% more likely to be rock climbers. Well I’m a rock climber and I use … Continue reading

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Want

— from sevennine – (?) “If you’re not actively involved in getting what you want, you don’t really want it.” Peter McWilliams [via] Never a truer word spoken in jest (or otherwise). [tags]flickr, photo[/tags]

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Black Crag, Langdale

We had a made drive over from Cockermouth (managed it in 1:15, not bad going) via a many winding road and then up the Wrynoss Pass. Parked at the top but forgot to look for the Three Shire Stones. A … Continue reading

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Summerhills, Hartlepool

We made a quick trip to Summerhills to check out their bouldering park. It is a manufactured bouldering park in much the same vain as Whickham Thorns in Dunston, Gateshead but with some very big differences. Firstly it is much … Continue reading

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Brimham Rocks, Yorkshire

Finally a days proper climbing outside, with photos! We went to Brimham Rocks, in yorkshire. An early 8:45 start, followed by an 1 1/2 drive got us there about 10:30. We picked up Ian, our friendly ‘mentor’ who has kindly … Continue reading

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Scugdale

Went to Scugdale on sunday. The weather was meant to be lovely and sunny (at least according to the mid-week forcast) but it turned out to be misty and windy, and a little bit cold. Did a bit of bouldering … Continue reading

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Wainstones, North Yorkshire Moors

Just has (5/9/04) an absolutely brilliant day up at Wainstones. The weather was very sunny, with little or no breeze, but this didn’t really bother us until mid afternoon when water supplies where running down and the rock was hot … Continue reading

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Great Wanney, Northumberland

Bank holiday monday saw us eager to get out climinbing again, and after drawing straws to see if we head south into the Cleveland hills or head north into Northumberland we set off north, hoping the weather would be nice. … Continue reading

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Brown Slabs Again…

For our first trip climbing outdoors on our own we decided to go back to Brown Slabs at Shepherds Crag in the Lake District. We also decided to go back on August bank holiday weekend! Would this turn out to … Continue reading

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