Saturday 25th – Sunday 26th August. I headed back down to Kilnsey again this weekend with Iain Moody. On Saturday I was disappointed to find that several key holds were still wet on Full Tilt, too many to justify redpointing. I did manage to workout a knee bar that was good enough to rest the [...]

Wednesday 22nd August. After another terrible forecast for the weekend I was glad I had a mid week holiday booked from work to get back to Yorkshire. On Saturday I made do with a Ratho session and got surprisingly pumped trying a F7c that took three goes. Also sadly, due to the poor weather the [...]

Thursday 9th, Saturday 11th, Sunday 12th. On Thursday evening I finally managed to get back to Glen Ogle to try Ceasefire with Mike Tweedley. However, the closing light of late summer only gave us a couple of hours. Having nearly done Ceasefire some 10 years ago falling on the top crux, I hoped for a [...]

Richie Betts going for the onsight of Mactalla F7b.

Saturday-Sunday 4th August. I had planned another trip to the North West with Iain Moody after our last visit in March to finish of some routes. Finally better weather and clear calenders landed on the same day and we made our way back to try some routes [...]