I’ve spent the last 2 and a half hours doing something which turned out to be a bit more physically challenging than I thought it would be. I spent the last two hours weaving old climbing rope into something that resembles rope a bit less.
I started with this, donated by Eamon (thanks Eamon)

and worked my [...]

I need old climbing rope. 30 metres of it. Preferably in a girly kinda colour. If it’s used, all the better.
I want to make one of these for the bathroom.
Hint hint.

So I decided to buy climbing shoes in the Great Outdoors today. I didn’t anything too technical (eg, expensive) but wanted something that could be described as semi comfortable (partly naive there) but more specifically as “mine”.
I’m not good at buying shoes, and specialist shoes – let’s be honest, from about March to November I [...]

I was back climbing today. It’s going slowly as I am a) unfit and b) actually quite unfit because I haven’t been doing any of the stuff that normally makes me not unfit and c) lacking in upper body strength.
A few months ago, the physio who was looking at other related problems called “bockety knee” [...]

Some time ago – before this site was born, basically – I flew to Edinburgh to do some climbing lessons. I did this for all sorts of reasons linked to access to lessons here (Edinburgh is easier to get to than UCD, for example ) and the fact that I could get lessons in [...]