Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - I’m back from a very soggy Spain (yep, you read that right) after a small group from Ireland turned up for a week in Rodellar pulling on tufas. Unfortunately, said rain got in the way so we hit the road and made the most of the week in the Siurana region. Al[...] Read More »

KILDARE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - I don’t usually replicate news from UKclimbing.com, however this one deserves a mention. Sport climbing has been accepted into the Olympics, provisionally at least. Now don’t get all excited and start preparing for 2008, or even 2012 for that matter -[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Part 1 - Rodellar - Myself and 5 others headed off to Spain for our annual Euro sports climbing trip in October. Four days in Rodellar and 4 days in the Costa Daurada. Here’s a quick (well not so quick) trip-report/how-to of what we did. A Google map relati[...] Read More »

WANAKA, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - Ever-reliable and ever-enthusiastic Dave Graham has sent Realization (9a+/5.15a) in Céuse, France. He’s now the 4th person to repeat the world’s first natural 9a+ (any other routes of this grade at the time had been chipped). Having tried it on [...] Read More »

WANAKA, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - Chris Sharma (USA), ever-present with new and ridiculously hard ascents, has put up a new 9a (5.14d) at Ceuse featuring his old reliable move: three dynos. Obviously the training (7-foot dyno) on that deep water solo in Majorca last year paid off in other locat[...] Read More »