Saturday 12 July 2014

Week 1 of Joint Services Alpine Meet

The first week of this year's meet was not blessed with what one might call fair weather! We spent the whole week ducking and diving between storms and showers. At times the passes wee shut due to snow drfts! Nonetheless by keeping things flexible we enjoyed some good routes and worked our way through the training syllabus.

Wednesday 9 July 2014

Stunning week of climbing in Rodellar

I joined my friends from Lisbon for a climbing holiday for the first week of July. We had a brilliant time: the highlight was probably an ascent of the world-class "Fiesta de Los biceps" at Riglos, but other great memories included on-sight leads of nearly a dozen routes at grade 7a and above plus several other excellent pitches. Every evening was a dinner party with some of the nicest people you could ever hope to see. And the scenery is beautiful, the deep heart of Spain.