Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I’m a little late getting to this one but hey, I have the excuse of ironman training to fall back on every time I’m slacking around here. ;-) Big congrats to all of the Irish team that travelled to Snowdon in Wales for the annual 10 mile race up and down[...] Read More »

CHICAGO, UNITED STATES (Team Geared Up) - Dave has posted a video of his recent time in Pembroke on his personal blog. After dinner we packed the car to capacity and hit the road to Pembroke. Arriving at 2am we set up camp and got up at 8 for a full day on the rock. Warming up at St. Govans we swi[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Deep Water Soloing World’s blog, having been very quiet for a while, has a post up detailing the forthcoming festivals this year. the most unusual? A soloing festival above a lake on a manufactured wall! I’ve heard it all now :) Still though, having se[...] Read More »

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 »

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 »

NEWBRIDGE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Sun. Blue skies. climbing in a t-shirt. Am I still in Thailand? Amazingly, I’m home: Ireland. After going through all the confusion of jumping multiple timezones, it’s been a shock to find myself arriving in weather just as good (if not as hot ;) as[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - All Climbing Blog alerted me to the video featured on UKClimbing of Rob Lamey on the first ascent of The Heel Hook Look 25m F8a, a deep water solo on Little Orme. The Heel Hook Look climbs across the obvious right-to-left rising break on Craig y Don Lower, Great Orme[...] Read More »