Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Myself and Steve McGowan have kicked off threads on the climbing.ie forums to try and collate a full list of all the best climbs in Ireland at their respective grades. Get yourselves over there to check out and add your thoughts! Best HS Best VS Best HVS Best E1 B[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Sorry about the cheesy title! Brian mailed me this morning to say their new site at www.doolincoastguard.com had gone live. The Doolin Unit of the Irish Coast Guard is located in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland. All volunteers, on-call 24/7/365. If you’[...] Read More »

NEWBRIDGE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - I’ve been meaning to put this together for ages, however now that I’m back in the country it turns out it was most worthwhile in hanging on (worst pun ever! Shoot me if I ever do that again :) before writing it up. Firstly, Paul Harrington has been [...] Read More »

WANAKA, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - I unfortunately missed this one as it’s almost 4 weeks ago now, but it definitely deserves a mention. Local Burren climbing website, Ailladie.com, is reporting that Gregor (the site’s author) has succeeded on a rare repeat of Sunbane (E6 6b/c, 5.1[...] Read More »

WANAKA, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - The Climbing.ie forurms are reporting that Irish/Belgian (in order of priority :) Sean Villanueva (back from a recent trip to South America) has climbed a direct variant on Mirror Wall, The Burren, Ireland. It “basically ’straightens out’ Refr[...] Read More »