Archive for May, 2010

Crags: Filey Brigg – Scary but a nice change

Being a nine to five (well 7:30 – 5:30 if I’m being honest) office slave, I get extremely frustrated with the whole British summer weather cycle of beautiful sunshine all week and rain all weekend. To make the situation even worse, David, my brother and regular climbing partner, works Saturdays. This means that we have effectively only got Sundays to play out, unless we book well in advance.

With the advent of the lighter, summer evenings I suggested that rather than climb indoors at Rock City in Hull, we try to get to a crag and climb outdoors. The only problem being is that it takes around an hour and a half to get to Hathersage from my place, which means we need to be away early to get a decent climb.

Last Friday I suggested we head of early and have a go up at Lawrencefield or Millstone. Unfortunately David couldn’t get away early. The earliest he could make it would have got us there for around 7:30pm – not worth it! As David is only about 3 miles from Filey, I suggested that we climb at Filey Brigg.

5 essential iphone apps for rock climbers

If like me you are addicted to rock climbing and have a penchant for all things iphone, you’re probably going to want to get your hands on rock climbing related iphone apps.

Climbing knots – 5 essential knots that every climber should know

…well every outdoor climber anyway. If you plan to only climb indoors at climbing walls then you’ll probably never need most of these knots. If you’re an outdoor climber, it is highly recommended that you have these 5 climbing knots in your repertoire.