Team Geared Up

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Bearded Git (BG) emailed me looking for ‘airtime’ for the Legalise Wild Camping in Wales & England campaign - just like they can in Scotland. They are looking to gather as many signatories as possible from UK Residents or Expats on the 10 Downing Street[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - A film crew joined us at EC2K7 last April to film a promotional video for Scouting Ireland’s 2008 Jamboree. I was asked to get their camera women up a very big tree and rig her & the camera up there ~ 25m high! They then did takes of some of the Scouts climb[...] Read More »

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - I haven’t done one of these in a while so I’m going to start getting back to doing this regularly. I’m only going to do one this month but I think I’ll do them bi-monthly. In the mean time I’ve done this very large post of some o[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Spotted this today, but it dates back to last week. An article in Outsider magazine suggests some potential good hill access on the way. Mind you, there’s an election afoot. The Labour Party recently published draft legislation which, if passed, could give hillwa[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - Miha Valic of Slovenia climbed all of the alps 82 4,000m peaks this recent winter. His target was to complete the challenge in 82 days during the calender winter but delays due to weather meant he finished his final peak, Les Droites, on April 7th. He began his qu[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Below are some photos of EC2K7 from the weekend… Me Crawling Through Crooked Tunnel Eoin Lead Climbing Tree Video from the Mafikeng Assault Course 2007, that we created… Here’s a list of the obstacles: - THE COUNTRYSIDE - 200m looped run to start to[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Couple of links to keep you entertained. Washington Post have a good Antarctica website all about The Dry Desert. Nice photos. The Gear Junkie features the Hero 3 digital camera. Straps to your wrist. Looks great but poor res for 2007. My phone isn’t much bigger a[...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - Two mountaineering friends that Darran & myself worked with at the Kandersteg International Scout Centre (KISC) in Switzerland are planning to ski 570km unsupported across Greenland in an effort to raise funds to help Scouts rebuild Southern Lebanon and to celebrate 1[...] Read More »