This is one of the great pleasures of a new guidebook, hours spent looking at your UKC logbook and old guides, ticking off the routes and remembering great days out.
I buy a new guide for every problem I tick. My financial advisor did suggested over a glass of port just the other night that this has been a somewhat extravigant luxury over the years and has depreciated my gold reserves somewhat but what the hey...
After 55 years of climbing and multiple guide books I just can't be arsed any more. I now work on the principle that if I can't remember if I've done it, it doesn't really matter. I wish there had been something like the log book feature on UKC when I started.
The house I first lived in as a child had gas lighting and a toilet down the garden incredible though that may seem in this day and age. Baths once a week in a tin tub in front of a fire with water boiled on a stove. They were the days. NOT.
Fri Night Vid Finding Focus - Life Behind The Lens of a Climbing Photographer
This week's Friday Night Video is a portrait of a prolific climbing photographer from Wedge Climbing. Sam Pratt is well known in both the outdoor and competition scene but if you haven't heard of him, you've likely seen...
Press Release Alpkit and Outside Bank Holiday Hathersage Tent Show 4-5th May