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OpenBeta newsletter – June 2025

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Trip report from our 2nd-annual OpenBeta Volunteers weekend

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That's a wrap on a busy training week in Eryri. One (1) day of good weather and 5 of wind and rain. I trained 4 days out of 6, with 2 rest days (enforced by the weather, but probably a good idea.)

I seconded some grade 2 and 3 scrambles in the Glyderau as part of a course. It was my first time at this grade and made trickier due to weather conditions and greasy rock. (Routes completed: Idwal Buttress on Glyder Fawr, Chimney Crack on Tryfan Bach, Bastow Buttress Variant and North Tower on Tryfan, plus some grade 1 gullies in descent).

Challenging but highly enjoyable. I also solo ran/hiked/scrambled the Snowdon Horseshoe route, my first time up Crib Goch.

I'd wanted to do two more classic horseshoes (Cwm Bochlywd, Carneddau Southern Ridges), but strong winds and heavy rain looked like too much risk. So I swapped in a low level run around the Ogwen Valley to get some elevation in on rough mountain terrain, with a bit of grade 1 scrambling up False Gribin too.

#TrailRunning #running #mountains #climbing #Wales #Cymru

Oblig summit shot. I would not have made it up (and back down) without both ice axes. All routes were a sheet of ice.

#MtHood #climbing #mountains

"Find what you love and let it kill you."
~ Charles Bukowski
#redrocks #lasvegas 2017
#climbing #outdoors #nevada #nature #photography #rockclimbing #geology #mountains #desert #love #quote #sportclimbing #natura #gooutside

Fun hobby #climbing

Outdoor season opened yesterday at Mustavuori, Tampere (see my bright blue pants in the upper right corner). Climbed easy sport routes, most of them in a top rope. Heroically I did try to lead the very first route, but rock felt so different after long winter months indoors that my nerves gave up after four quickdraws. But it was a good try, all things considered.

Today everything hurts, but who cares.

#climbing #rockclimbing #kiipeily #deartrainingdiary

This #bouldering #climbing cake my wife just made for my daughter.

Buenos días. Ayer nos dimos un paseito por el fantástico Congosto de Montrebei entre las provincias de Huesca y Lleida. Vertiginosas pasarelas que humanizan, en ocasiones demasiado, este espacio natural que siempre merece una visita.
#montañismo #landscape #photography #huesca #nature #paisaje #naturaleza #fotografia #hiking #climbing #escalada #mountaineering #pirineo

Sunny day at the crag, after a long sequence of shifts #rockclimbing #climbing #climbinglife #bouldering #sportclimbing #freeclimbing

Getting to the crux...
#MalibuCreekStatePark
#california #photography #nature #outdoors #gooutside #Calabasas #hiking #malibucreek #scrambling #climbing #bouldering #losangeles

So there was actually climbing on the Nice climbing trip, too (between the rain... which managed to be both more and less than expected...). La Turbie, as it turns out, felt really kinda sandbagged grade-wise (or maybe I was just sucking?)! But then the fun is in the movement and unlocking the puzzle, not the grade and it was a great trip with a fun bunch; Alesia Sidliarevich (with the excellent catches), Helen Finn, Carole Dawson, and Roy.
#climbing #ClimbingIsMyPassion #SportClimbing #LimestoneClimbing #Nice #LaTurbie

El Diente de Llardana (3.085 m) en el PN Posets Maladeta (HUESCA) es una bonita y vertiginosa aguja que nos encontramos tras subir la Canal Fonda en la ascensión al Posets.
#montañismo #landscape #photography #huesca #nature #paisaje #naturaleza #fotografia #hiking #climbing #escalada #benasque #alpinismo #mountaineering #pirineo

Ripped some finger skin while #climbing ? Keep calm, tape it up, and up you go

Throwback to some #bouldering shenanigans in #fontainebleau.
#font #bleau #outdoor #climbing

Bit of a miserable day of #climbing in #Beez, #belgium yesterday. Got spooked while leading the first easy climb. Continued on top-rope and couldn't finish any of the subsequent routes without hangdogging. Frustrating...
It's a style of climbing that's not really my favorite though. Slightly overhanging with lots of pockets and you can't really see which are the good ones until you move to them. So lots of trying, retreating, etc. Which requires more strength than I have available.

I think the time spent on the Moon Board definitely helped with this crimpy, lanky problem. I normally wouldn’t have gone anywhere near it.

#climbing