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No bouldering yet!

We had a weekend fixed to go trad. climbing in the Peak District or the Lake District in the north of England, but a last minute change of plan saw us load up the car and head to France.

A drive, a ride in the car on a train in an under-sea tunnel and another drive took us to Fontainebleau, a huge expanse of sandstone boulders…[Read more]

That is a cool pic!

And this is a cool vid. Can’t watch it and not want to go riding. Chris Akrigg is a fucking legend:

Wooooo Hoooo Hooo! I’m going to the Lyngen Alps!

Massive props to Schralp for asking the question. Turns out the answer was pretty easy: “Yes”

Just look at it: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lyngen+alps&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=1veLUeXOOcbKPcTIgPAK&ved=0CEkQsAQ&biw=1745&bih=860

Schralp, just had another look at at this, photos really are very good indeed. Hope you’re taking the same camera to Svalbard?

The writing and the line itself aren’t too shabby either! Excellent work. :thumpsup:

Well, it’s getting towards that time of year!

And I’ve just finished rebuilding my ’99 Dekerf Generation. Send it off to a frame builder here for a disc mount, canti boss/cable guide clean-up and a respray, along with a Salsa Cromoto fork. Very happy. SSUK is the weekend after next. Can’t wait. South coast, hilly 25 mile course. From the…[Read more]

Nice work there! Good pics too.

It’s a little tricky for me figuring out when to bring em so they only have a few days on them

Same here, had them with me for a two week trip, either a) had them with me and skins were better all the way, or b) left the behind and kicked myself. They became a point of piss taking for the others, the pointless…[Read more]

End of the last day of our honeymoon. I’d imagine there’s a few people on here who’d recognise this spot!?

Not especially gnarly, but Mrs. Snowlady took a backwards dive off the drop just after this photo was taken. rip.

That’s the one!

Thank you very much, Jack.

Bibs Rock. Like this: :rock:

Gives you a bigger choice of jackets (shorter maountaineery-cut ones, means riding in a mid/base layer is just a bit more practical.

And as far as warmth/breathability/windproofness goes, I’ve been massively impressed with my Rab Vapour-rise jacket. I’d thought it would be a breathable mid layer for the up and warm…[Read more]

Very nice, thank you!

Can we open this up to literary appreciation for the mountains? Mark Twain wrote some great stuff. This wasn’t what I was looking for, but it’s very nicely put:

…a man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit…

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Although if I want contemplative, I’ll probably have about 8 bars of something like this in constant rotation.

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I usually have something more contemplative in my head on the skin track, though, lets the mind wander from the plod.

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(video is incidental, love the song anyway, but recently came across the clip.)

nilf, I’ll see your Norwegians and raise you some bollywood:

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idiots:
:thumpsup:

Schralp,

Sounds awesome. Props for taking the plunge!

I was planning a road trip round Norway a couple of years ago, and trawled through a few threads on here to look for Norwegians to ask for advice. I PM’d johan, NorwayBrder, Gunnar, eivind62, arild, RuneG, supah, ove. I think there a few more on here now, have a look round trip reports and…[Read more]

Not particularly spooky this one, or particularly backcountry-y, but here it is anyway.

I was travelling round BC with a few buddies and, up near Smithers, we stopped off to look at a fossilised lake bed where the river now cuts through it, exposing new fossils quite often.

We get out of the car at the parking spot, and have a look round, but…[Read more]

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Woo hoo! :disco:

I’ve not seen it either, but I’m looking forward to deciding on my favourite scene!

I’m waiting on delivery of a Panasonic LX7. I was actually thinking about an LX5 as a replacement for my well loved LX3, which is going to wifey, and was very pleasantly surprised to see the LX7.

Things that sold it to me:
f1.4 at 24mm
f2.3 at 90mm
in-built ND filter to allow longer exposures (blury motion) or larger aperture (blury backround)…[Read more]

Zero G rent splits. They’re just on summer web pages at the mo, so only bikes showing.

What they are showing though, is that Dupraz are doing a factory split. Cue extended bout of chin-stroking. Hmmm…