Archive for July, 2010

Killer Loop Double Up

Monday, July 26th, 2010

The 2010 High Sports KILLER LOOP on Sunday 18th July - a 50mile/5,000ft of ascent bike challenge doubled in rider numbers this year, and hosted its first tandem entry. With over 50 riders this year the final proceeds from the event allowed us to make a double charity donation; half to the ...

MacLeod repeats Indian Face

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Dave MacLeod is widely regarded as Britain's best trad climber, and now he has repeated one of the world's most coveted trad routes, Indian Face (E9 6c) on Clogwyn Du'r Arddu (Cloggy to most of us). In a previous High Sports lecture series, Dave shared with us his experiences on Echo ...

Neil Gresham and the SlugPit

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Yet another passing "Rock Celeb" descended into the newly commissioned High Sports SLUG PIT bouldering facility. Constructed last year for staff recreation and training, it's soul function and design is to be a hardcore retro anti-nesh pump room (the opposite to anything that resembles a contemporary 'pay for it' climbing wall facility). Being deep ...