Highballing in Northumberland

Some limestone bouldering from Anston stones... Mike Adams (hero) recently put up a new 8b+ at Anston Stones, near of all places. Fire in the Rain starts as for an old 8a+, White Light Direct but rather...

The amazing Zoo York at Caley

I have wanted to do this for ages. Stanage has a lovely collection of arêtes ranging from pretty easy to pretty hard, and are all climbable above a few pads. I have done Careless Torque before, but had never...

Climbing Works International Festival The CWIF is always a good laugh. Those boys at the Climbing Works know how to put on a comp. 30 dirty qualifier problems wear out the skin and the arms for the...

British Championships - Jan 2011 This is usually in the summer but was moved this year to prevent it clashing with the World Cup in Sheffield. Sadly this meant we had to A) go to London and...

grit season

Once conditions had got a little better i decided to get stuck into something properly hard. Kheops is an absolute classic compression problem, and one of the most “font style” font problems out there. It involves so much more...

A bit of a mixed bag really. The first 2 weeks of October were HOT – up to 27degrees and never really below 15 in the day. Initially it didn’t seem to matter too much – the rocks were...

Getting there... I can now hold small holds, but I just can’t yard on them. This is ok however as it has opened up a new set of problems which I can try. As long as there...