Year: 2019
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Why Kim Climbs
Kim likes climbing. Why does Kim like climbing?
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Train your weaknesses
Autumn is here and pushing us inside for climbing. That means training over fun, so how do we choose what to train?
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Raining thus geocaching
The weather has turned autumnal with windy storms and heavy rain. That limits what we can do outside, but luckily a new series of nearby geocaches has appeared that we should go and search for.
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Climbing a hole in the roof of Shelob’s lair
Let’s go climb Shelob’s Lair on Paviland, Gower. Wales. Because it’s got a cave and a hole in the roof to climb through, and because we saw it last week from the sea when kayaking. It’s pretty high up. This should be a bit of an adventure. There are a couple of other things to…
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Back in the kayak around the Gower
Finally the winds have dropped for an amazing British bank holiday weekend so we’re back out in the kayaks for a couple of paddles around the cliffs of the Gower, looking at the climbing crags from another perspective. We paddle from Port Eynon around Culver Hole, Paviland, Mewslade Bay and Giant’s Cave to Fall Bay,…
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Falling off and 3D printing a clip stick
Plans went out of the window this weekend with some variable Welsh weather. Kim had a bit of a bounce off her mountain bike and we had a think about making a clip stick for some of those sport climbing dodgy landings.