Friday 23 – Saturday 24. This weekend we were more decisive in getting away for the weekend before Mike headed offshore again, so defying the bad forecast for the rest of the UK we headed up to the North West.
On Friday after a frustrating fight out of the city traffic and up the M90 [...]

Sunday 17th June. Inspired last weekends visit to Yorkshire I was psyched to train over the past week and managed to squeeze in three finger board sessions into another long and stressful week. Although this resulted in little or no progress I was still psyched to get torn in to something hard at the weekend. [...]

Sunday 10th June. I’ve been so focused on projects over the spring that its been nearly three months since my last day walking with Lindsey. Between DIY and projects we’ve missed some glorious days to be out in the mountains. Aware that the year is ticking by we decided we should head out even though [...]

Thursday 7th , Saturday 9th June. It’s been nearly a year since my last trip down to Yorkshire limestone when I visited Kilnsey to try a very wet Subculture. In the late nineties I was more motivated to visit this area to try the many cutting edge routes at Malham and Kilnsey. At Malham I [...]

Friday 1st – Saturday 2nd June. My old pal Owen Davis (now resident in Newcastle) was in Scotland this week with his girlfriend Ruth, traveling around visiting folks and doing some climbing. I planned to meet them in the in the North West to show them some of the areas best trad, sport and bouldering.

Looking [...]