It's Been a busy Summer!

This summer has been very busy!

Mainly the getting married bit! Estelle and I were married in Champagny en Vanoise in the French alps and spent a fantastic week there with many family and friends.

Climbing wise we ran an introductory session at the torchet wall on the Tuesday and while pulling through my left arm to a new hold something creaked and nearly three months on I am only just recovering!

I have made it back to the local wall and a few gym visits but other than a couple of excursions of note this has put pay to my ambitions of a busy summer of climbing.

The First weekend of september found me on the west coast at the Retrofest 80's music festival ! The idea was to spend the weekend doing some outdoor sports ( kite surfing and climbing) in between the evenings entertainment/work on the dance tent at Retrofest.

The weather was against us and kite surfing was very difficult with no wind so we headed south along the coast road to Stranraer. Once we got there we just kept going onto Port patrick and North a wee bit up to Larbrax. Our Condor self drive van did look a bit funny parked on one of the most southerly points of Scotland !

The weather and tides were agains against us but after much effort we did locate the infamous larbrax slabs holding the most difficult climbing in Galloway!(E6,6A).

We attempted some lesser climbs on the slabs and after a full days adventure headed back to Culeazn.

The other climbing outing of note was a trip to Yorkshire this weekend past. Estelle and I headed away for a quick weekend and made it to both Gordale Scar and to Malham Cove. These limestone areas are full of really hard trad and sport routes not for the faint hearted. They are both amazing places to which I hope to return and at least climb something in the near future.

Tinu my friend from DJing days decided that after seeing all that rock in France at the wedding he wanted to give it a try and hence i took him along to the local wall last week to show him the ropes. He had fun which is great another person to hold a rope!

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It's Been a busy Summer!

This summer has been very busy!

Mainly the getting married bit! Estelle and I were married in Champagny en Vanoise in the French alps and spent a fantastic week there with many family and friends.

Climbing wise we ran an introductory session at the torchet wall on the Tuesday and while pulling through my left arm to a new hold something creaked and nearly three months on I am only just recovering!

I have made it back to the local wall and a few gym visits but other than a couple of excursions of note this has put pay to my ambitions of a busy summer of climbing.

The First weekend of september found me on the west coast at the Retrofest 80's music festival ! The idea was to spend the weekend doing some outdoor sports ( kite surfing and climbing) in between the evenings entertainment/work on the dance tent at Retrofest.

The weather was against us and kite surfing was very difficult with no wind so we headed south along the coast road to Stranraer. Once we got there we just kept going onto Port patrick and North a wee bit up to Larbrax. Our Condor self drive van did look a bit funny parked on one of the most southerly points of Scotland !

The weather and tides were agains against us but after much effort we did locate the infamous larbrax slabs holding the most difficult climbing in Galloway!(E6,6A).

We attempted some lesser climbs on the slabs and after a full days adventure headed back to Culeazn.

The other climbing outing of note was a trip to Yorkshire this weekend past. Estelle and I headed away for a quick weekend and made it to both Gordale Scar and to Malham Cove. These limestone areas are full of really hard trad and sport routes not for the faint hearted. They are both amazing places to which I hope to return and at least climb something in the near future.

Tinu my friend from DJing days decided that after seeing all that rock in France at the wedding he wanted to give it a try and hence i took him along to the local wall last week to show him the ropes. He had fun which is great another person to hold a rope!

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