Archive for January, 2009
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
All the tickets for John Beatty's Lecture completely sold out!
The only tickets available now are for our Local Spot Lecture, this time with Nick Dixon. He will talk on a major new route in the Alps from this summer plus more Shropshire climbing. Also a presentation of Climbing the Matterhorn, Old Man of ...
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
Ed and I made unbelievable progress on day three. It seemed like we were getting nowhere and then we looked up and realised that we'd managed to clear a good sized area at the base of the Nebuliser crack. The new floor is good quality hard compacted sand and flat!
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
The Black Diamond Satellite pad is the perfect travel companion at a great price. Easy to carry, compact, ideal for boulderers with small cars and for travelling when luggage size and weight is restricted.
As a bouldering devoted, who likes travelling abroad in search of that undiscovered final exotic line, I know how difficult it is ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
In situ pegs are something I have been thinking about a lot lately. Are they safe, unsafe? Ethical,unethical? are they alright as long as they are replaced regularly?
Whilst roaming through the internet I realised that although there are many debates, and many climbers for and against, there was no evidence ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
In a sad start to the new year, Australian climber Nick Kaczorowski suffered a fatal fall whilst climbing in the blue mountains.
Upon closer inspection it was found that the route had be bolted using caving anchors, which just popped out when fallen on.
It is a stern reminder to us all ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
On the 12th of Jan 2009 Paul Martin and Mike Hawksby set about a clean up operation of the glass and metal filled Church quarry at Grinshill.
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Church quarry is home to a couple of possibly the finest lines at Grinshill and many more potential future classics at an awesome ...
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
At the brilliant lecture he gave last night, Dave Macleod revealed that just days ago he had repeated James Pearson's mega route "the walk of life", a massive 50 metre slab on the North Devon coast. When James finally lead the walk in autumn of last year he gave it the ...
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
At only 16 Shrewsbury climber Tom Fenwick will be the latest Youngsters in the Mountains recipient to be presented with an award at the Dave Macleod lecture on Tuesday 6th January 2009 at the Gateway centre. Tom has an insatiable appetite for climbing with a ticked list already long enough and ...
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