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Tour the Wicklow
What’s better than going on a motorbike around your local area? Getting your friends to come along on their bikes as well! Thanks Louis, Darren, Dave, Mat & Ewa for a great Saturday morning! As usual, click the photo below for the link to the album.
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Bell Rock, co. Wicklow
Jirka is a type of a person that doesn’t like to sit idle. There is always something going on, and it tends to be unique. During last week’s trip to The Burren we were already discussing what to do following weekend. He told me about this mythical, unique place in co. Wicklow – Bell Rock.…
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Back to The Burren
It’s rather sad that I didn’t do any real outdoor climbing for almost a month. One or two outings to Dalkey, nothing special. I’ve spent most of the time at Awesome Walls, at work or watching Euros. I was very happy when last week Jirka said he was keen to go to The Burren, co. Clare –…
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Definitely in the mood…
…for some more sports climbing. Yesterday we went to Sokoliki, a climbing crag in the Sokole Gory (part of Sudety Mountains), near where Monika’s from. We had a pleasure to meet up with Grzegorz and Patrycja, who drove from Katowice region to climb with us. There were also some none climbers with us – Monika’s sister’s…
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The Land of Extinct Volcanoes
is the ‘nickname’ of the area we visited today. Millions of years ago the extracting from underground magma froze and created many interesting shapes. You can find more information about the greater region here and here. We had a half a day to spare, and set our heads towards mysterious, and relatively new (in bolted climbing terms) Diablak, a…
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Sunday Glendalough is a busy Glendalough…
…unless you are a climber, and you go there on a June BH Sunday! Literally everyone we normally see there are either in Donegal, Fair Head, or some other places like Kerry, or Lake District – making Glenda walls today empty like a graveyard after dark. PG and I decided to take advantage of the situation…
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Spur of the moment
I normally don’t do outdoors bouldering. As a matter of fact I don’t think I ever climb a boulder outdoors (Ivy Chimney counts?). We’ve decided yesterday that we just going to go and check out The Scalp today. Excellent guides are available on climbing.ie wiki & dublinmountains.ie, so I won’t get into details of how to…
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Some HVS fun.
We weren’t even planning on climbing on Sunday (having spent most of Saturday in the quarry), but it happened that the weather was still nice, so we went to see what’s going on. We run into PG, Sonja and Diarmuid, and it was all thanks to him, who send me on the path of Dalkey…
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No room for mistakes
… when you want to lead GARGOYLE GROOVE DIRECT (*** 16m E1 5b). Some say the Direct finish is better and actual easier than the classic (HVS) right hand side mantle. Yesterday seen my very first attempt on it. From climbing random For now, the route beat me, but I’l be back. One day. We…
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22 years
Today is the first time since 1994 when F1 weekend race takes place on May 1st. Remembering Roland and Ayrton. Roland Ratzenberger (4 July 1960 – 30 April 1994 ) Roland Ratzenberger was just 34 when he died at Imola, 30th April 1994. His dream was to become a Formula 1 driver. Born in…