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 »

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 »

NEWBRIDGE, KILDARE (Team Geared Up) - What did all the adventurers do to deserve this?! We’ve already had Joe Simpson’s ‘Beckoning Silence’ last night, Beyond Endurance tonight, and now there’s a choice of items to watch on Wednesday. If you’re in Dublin there[...] Read More »

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - After what has been largely a disastrous summer for Irish climbing with a lot of rain, rain and more rain (as one friend put it with that amusing Irish curse, “the weather’s been sh&*e”), I thought I’d drag together whatever [...] Read More »

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - After our recent link to Dave MacLeod’s write-up on his own thoughts on his new route, To Hell and Back, and all the problems that became associated with it, PosingProductions, one of the camera teams (and producers of the amazing E11 movie and fri[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - While The Great Climb was cancelled due to weather, Dave posts on his blog that he’s completed the Hell’s Lum climb that was to be done on the day. It’s the most dangerous lead I’ve ever done, and right now, I’m not sure exactly how I [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Here’s your weekly round up of all the stories that didn’t get their own posts. — First off, the photo above - a real climbing purist makes a point on their 4×4 by duck taping out the vehicle model name ‘Sport’ and replacing it with &[...] Read More »