Team Geared Up

Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or enter your email: for updates. Thanks for visiting! 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 I[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Today, AlpineKit launched Jamalots® to offer a new breed of ultra passive protection using the latest in spacer block technology. For years companies have been short-sighted in looking at the aerospace and space technologies to provide solutions whilst ignoring technol[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Instructables is a site that shows you user submitted instructions on how to build things. Anything at all! I found a massive selection of Instructables on how to build a Woody (a term used to describe a home-built indoor climbing wall!). They go from the straight-forwa[...] 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 »

Flintshire, North Wales (Team Geared Up) - I read this morning on 8a.nu (one of my favourite sites) that Adam Ondra, pictured above, has just made short work of La Rambla, 9a+ in Siurana in Northern Spain… and he’s still only 15! “On his second day and fifth try Adam Ondra walked [...] Read More »

Visit the S4C webpage here North Wales, UK (Team Geared Up) - “Ioan Doyle, 17 from Bethesda, Gwynedd, is considered a young climber of exceptional talent and promise. This film documentary follows him over the summer of 2007 as he attempts to conquer some of the world’s most difficult r[...] 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 »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - I spotted a story about the ownership of Rockall on RTE news tonight. I’d never even heard of it, but the photos excited me. As I dug deeper, the story got better and better. Rockall – The most isolated speck of Rock, surrounded by Water on the Surface of [...] Read More »

NORTH WALES (Team Geared Up) - While checking up on all the current climbing news on the web i came across this innovation. We all thought of it, but now someone has finally gone and made it! The AirPad! “HGB (in Sweden) in cooperation with www.8a.nu (Awesome website - check it out if you ha[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Today its Links@Lunch as I didn’t get to write these last night. Here’s the stuff during the week we wished we’d talked more about: — It’s “Groovy Shoe” time. We got to be careful not to show Eoin these or he’ll be off to[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - It’s a bit of a Top Gear day today, isn’t it! Here’s the video of Jeremy Clarkson in a Land Rover racing Rock Climber Paul McCartney up the indoor climbing wall at the MPH 07 show. We let you know this was happening last weekend. Sarunas (DCURCC) sent[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Part 2 For part 1 if this report see this To the Costa Daurada. Leaving Rodellar behind we made or way back to the N240 and headed for the Costa Daurada. We had already reserved a bungalow in Camping Prades, in Prades. 6Km before the town of Montblanc there is a t[...] Read More »

Uploaded with Skitch! NEWBRIDGE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Dal Riada climbing club, the group that most Irish climbers join after finishing their apprenticeship in university, had it’s annual gathering last weekend in Ballycastle, Co. Antrim. Following on from previous years, it was basically[...] 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 relating to[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - DCURCC reader, Sarunas, sent in a link to FreakClimbing.com, featuring an ascent the Nose of El Capitan in 2hr 45min 45sec in Yosemite. It took Warren J Harding, Wayne Merry and George Whitmore 47 days to ascend the 1000m-high face in 1958, but the two German brothers[...] Read More »

NEWBRIDGE, KILDARE (Team Geared Up) - In what really looks like a route, 2 meters off the ground (that’s about 6 foot for the non-metric folks about there :), Chris Webb Parsons has climbed what is theoretically the world’s current hardest problem. I got tired looking at it….. As [...] Read More »