Posted in Climbing, Lofoten Islands, Norway, Wales on Aug 7th, 2008
Vestpillaren: the most classic rock climb on the islands. It takes a fairly straight line up a 470m high, clean granite buttress called Presten, which rises almost straight out of the ocean, in 12 pitches. We were always vaguely thinking to do this climb in our time on Lofoten but once we saw the cliff, [...]
Our van had its first breakdown the other day…let’s hope it’s not a midlife crisis brewing. Backtracking a little: on Monday a week ago our climbing friend Steve once again joined us in Wales. Jess decided to take the opportunity to go shopping without my sighs of boredom for company, leaving the boys to climb [...]
The weather in North Wales has reverted to its notorious reputation: shit. The weekend was sodden with heavy rain and wild wind (Trudy, your SES pager would be constantly beckoning ‘tree down, tree down!!’). Ol reckons he’s acquiring sea legs as the van is being thrashed around by the wind. It’s so chillingly loud and [...]