Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - The Mountaineering Council of Ireland have organised the Spring Meet once again, and it’s being hosted on the 17th and 18th of May in Glendalough Wicklow. The all important bit is what’s arranged: Saturday Arrival (Glendalough International Youth Host[...] Read More »

I was going to write up a brief entry on this myself considering I was doing the route-setting for the roped part of the competition but Stephen McGowan and Ailish Grennan put together a top quality write-up so I’ll leave it to them! Consider this my first arrangement of a guest post :) From m[...] Read More »

KILDARE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - I’ve been holding out on this post for as long as I could, mainly so that the final news would be of a completed wall! UPDATE: If anyone is interested in the development of a new, large wall here in Dublin, Ireland, do let me know in the comments below, or [...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Keep an eye on The Short Span for details of the Irish Bouldering Meet 2008. The Fifth Annual Irish Bouldering Meet will be on the weekend of Friday 29th Febuary to Sunday 2th March based in the I.M.C Hut in Glendasan Country Wicklow. This is a fantastic weekend for new[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Neal McQuaid (TGU Blogger) has started a new climbing coaching company IrishClimbingCoching.ie with Nigel Callender. We are Irelands first and only dedicated Climbing Coaching provider, combining our own experience of top-level climbing with the science of performance a[...] Read More »

Amazing climbing, great -and professional - footage, well worth a watch! Review of King Lines DVDRated as 4/5 on Jan 17 2008 by Neal McQuaid O.k., so it’s Rampage #2 on a global scale. I know I shouldn’t describe it as this, but with another movie from BigUpProductions showing just [...] Read More »

KILDARE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - And so the final round of the Irish Bouldering League finished up with a hot final round. Not hot due to the pressure on the competitors, but mainly due to the inability to turn off the heating in the room! :) Still though, with a stunning turn-out (150 people ha[...] Read More »

KILDARE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Jeez, I feel like I’m just advertising climbing events all the time on this blog :) Anyone actually getting any climbing done at present? :) UPDATE: Date has been changed to the original weekend, i.e. 29th February to 2nd March. I’ve updated the Googl[...] Read More »