by Andy Minshull There are obvious attractions – and obvious drawbacks – to a Kerry meet. The attractions are Ireland’s most majestic mountains, some extraordinary […]
Dingle Dangle – a Memorable Kerry Meet
Category: Trip Report: Ireland
GORSE OR FURZE?
I read somewhere that these are the only two words in the English dictionary with the exact same meaning, although it should be pointed out […]
Dalkey Climbers’ Marathon or “The Dalkey 40”
https://www.irishmountaineeringclub.org/ “People on the outside who either don’t do our sport, or don’t do it to the same level, look at the things we do […]
Dalkey Climbers' Marathon or "The Dalkey 40"
https://www.irishmountaineeringclub.org/ “People on the outside who either don’t do our sport, or don’t do it to the same level, look at the things we do […]
Galtees Trip, January 2017
Emma Hand, Sé O’Hanlon, Gerry Galligan, Peter Wood and I met up in the Ballyhoura Hostel in Kilfinane on the Friday night. On Saturday morning […]
Moonlight Challenges
Recent interest in the organised Moonlight Challenge and all this talk about a super moon reminded me of a time when we used to hold […]
Mournes Trip 21-22 May 2016
What a fantastic weekend, thanks again Jon for organising it. Even though the weather wasn’t the best for Saturday some got to climb and others had […]
Donegal Shenanigans…
With the promise of blue skies for the weekend a last minute decision was made from myself and Jason to head to Donegal for vertical […]
Culdaff Climbfest 2016
Climbfest Topo here. All in it was ace – lovely, lovely people & lovely crags – it’s mecca for climbing…and the weather was good. We […]
Pegs of Yore
A post on the forum by Peter Wood regarding the demise of the peg on Setanta led to this short piece from Gerry on pegs: past & […]