Arco, Italy, was (our satnav brain assured us) best approached by firstly coaxing the Taj up the remaining rise of the Alps which, with cabin heaters on to control engine temperature, we did. Luckily the road was wide enough at times for us to let past the Mercedes convertibles and Audi station wagons banking up [...]
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Vestpillaren
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, [...]
We drove to Snowdonia in North Wales a few days ago (after reading reports of uncharacteristically good weather) in search of a change of scenery for Jess’s birthday, and for some different rock. And different it is! We are camped at the entrance to Llanberis pass and the scene is 100 % alpine: where climbs [...]
We’ve been hangin’ at Stanage in the Peak District national park, located about 260 km north-west of London, for about five weeks now. We’ve resided at various campsites, paddocks and caravan parks (for power), and even spent one night alongside a road in a dark, shadowy forest when there was nowhere else to stay during [...]