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Antalya November 2023

Cover image: Kevser leading a grade 5 at Akyarlar. (Trip report courtesy of Jan Morris) The best sports climbing venue in Europe (if you climb 6c+)? After a 5 hour flight from Bristol we flew into Antalya airport.   The rock in this area is extensive, well bolted (but not closely bolted) and the crags have […]

Fairhead Trad Festival June 2023

Lisa and I went to the Fairhead trad festival back over the first weekend in June. Here’s a few of our pics to whet the appetite for a meet next year perhaps? We flew from Bristol to Belfast with Easyjet then hired a car for the hours drive north to Ballycastle. The ferry and diesel […]

Ben Nevis CIC Hut trip 2022

On Thursday evening last week Owen and I started the long red eye drive up to Scotland overnight to stay at the Charles Inglis Clark (CIC) memorial hut, under the north face of Ben Nevis. We walked in on Friday morning, helped by a lift to the top car park, dropped our gear at the […]

Lakes Trip (4th – 6th Feb)

To kick off February to an adventurous start, a group of 9 of us planned a trip to explore the Cumbrian mountains, basing ourselves at the YMC hut nestled in the Copper Mines Valley in Coniston.  On Friday morning, me and Grace were lucky enough to be able to set off from Bristol bright and […]

Last of the Scottish winter wine

The Scottish border opened for leisure last Monday. The Saturday before, after a week of nights, I found the stars had aligned 😀 a good forecast, routes still being ticked on social media and a keen fit climbing partner ready to go. We left Bristol around 9pm on Sunday, hit cruise control, stopped for the […]