Tag: roaches

Fun Saturday at the Roaches with Lou

27 June 2021

Fun Saturday at the roaches with Louise, Antonio, Alex, Camilla, Liam on the Upper Tier a few weekends ago. Also a lovely surprise to bump into Rebecca and Alex! (Sadly missed Hattie and Aaron) I lead Jeffcoats Chimney again – a fearsome "Vdiff", only redeemed by the premature second pitch. Despite this, I heard lots […]

Lou on Pedestal Route at the Roaches

23 June 2021

Lou on Pedestal Route HVD at the Roaches a few weeks ago. It was memorable for her as it was her first time climbing at the Roaches, her first multipitch, and the highest route she'd done yet. I'm told the crimpy traverse on pitch 2 was really fun to second and definitely a highlight of […]

Throwback to a Saturday at The Roaches

30 May 2021

Throwback to a Saturday at The Roaches climbing with Vanessa, Mark and Antonio. Vanessa and I went on a big wall adventure on Pedestal Route HVD. A quality repeat for me and Vanessa's first multipitch. Antonio and Mark picked off various top 50 Severe and below multipitches, giving Antonio his first experience doing trad multipitch […]

Pleasant climbing at The Roaches

13 May 2021

Pleasant climbing at The Roaches a few weeks ago with some of the Climbing Clan. Arriving at the crag, one member of the party was swearing violently that this whole climbing this was a terrible idea when walking up the hill was so hard. Thankfully it was only our little climbing family, and no innocent […]

Climbing Clan December weekend at the Roaches

6 January 2020

Great memories of the Climbing Clan December weekend trip to the Roaches. Highlights: ‘‰Antonio's 4 course dinner for the December Climbing Clan trip to the Roaches: Pipirrana salad, butternut squash soup, paella, fruit salad and Sangria © ‘‰Does anyone have any fireworks? Err yes I do. *Whapang* *boom*! ‘‰Getting out for a nice warm hike […]