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@phr

You're welcome - I speak from much experience.

@phr

Use the doorframe to keep the door shut, and lie on the rug till you fall asleep. Note with disappointment when you go back to the climbing wall that you pick up at the *exact* same place you left off - possibly slightly better.

@pamela6591

Oh, it’s a lovely set of mountains: from the highest one (Toubkal), you can see clear across to the Sahara desert. A fantastic summit to see the sun rise.

@pamela6591

Mainly rocks and snow - which, if you’re of my disposition towards mountains, is a Good Thing.

#SilentSunday

#Mountains #Climbing #Morocco

@kashcah

The post-walk beers in the sunshine? They were *tremendous*!

This is a part of the Costa Blanca that most people never see, as they rarely venture out from the high-rise hotel strips. It's a beautiful landscape, and astonishingly beautiful in spring when the wildflowers are blooming.

#FootpathFriday

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#Climbing

#SomeRiskInvolved

@mootParadox

Back in the day, these were the first genuinely comfortable shoes on the market, and we all went bananas for them. Unfortunately, the uppers were made of tissue paper (and not the expensive stuff) and fell apart literally in weeks.

The next generation seemed stiffer and a bit less accommodating for those of us with hobbit feet. Real shame, as performance-wise they were brilliant.

@Nikita

Noice. I spot a market.

@jcmchammy @devnull @thefifthseason

When I was 18, a climbing accident put me on crutches for a year. I was daftly strong - one-armed pull-up strong - but my climbing didn’t improve at all (in large part probably because I was mostly on trad, but continental bolt clipping wasn’t getting any easier, either).

Then in my early 20s I took up gymnastics for a couple of years, and that caused me to make progress. I worked out that a stronger core, particularly through abdominals and lower pecs, was much more applicable to climbing than big biceps. I recognise what you’re saying about shoulders certainly, and for me there’s a degree of front-lever which goes along with it, particularly on moving up through the sloper.

@jcmchammy @devnull @thefifthseason

This. Except I'd go further and say it's in your heels: if they're behind you, you're peeling off the hold.

(Which is probably to do with your core)

@Broadfork

It might be right, for you. Our forecast has been improving over the last week, so Monday might also be ok.

@Broadfork

I think I won't be rolling around in it till Tuesday, though - when it's supposed to stop raining.

@Broadfork

Mountains and waterfalls! Clean air and negative ions - genuine therapy for the mind.

On that note, I was talking to a doctor friend the other day, about Mycobacterium Vaccae, the microbe in soil which *may* increase serotonin levels, and they’d never heard about it. They’re also a hugely accomplished gardener (as in, will be in a guest spot on the next series of GW), but it doesn’t appear to have reached the medical profession yet.

@StriderLongshanks

The previous day had been an absolute stunner, and as we were going up onto CMD, we met a bunch of people coming down. It had suckered a bunch, though - there were two parties still on Observatory Ridge when we set up camp, and one of them didn’t top out till late into the night. We got the tail end of the good weather, and the wind was really picking up on the plateau. Clag down into the Glen the next day.

@drdirtbag

Old fashioned plastic bivvy bags, taken for just that purpose. There's a whole section of zigzags up the scree which are soul destroying in either direction, so shooting a line down through the middle is fairly cathartic.

I was carrying everything else (son was only about 10 at the time), so a sled would have been pushing it.

@Broadfork

My brother-in-law and I have been mountaineering together for a good while. Every so often we used to drag my son along on something slightly uncomfortable; now he's older, he views it all in pretty-much equal parts horror and nostalgia.

@zakb

It's one of the classic easy outings in a Scottish winter, and one of the best ways to get up our mighty tallest peak (nearly 4,500ft). The camp in the middle makes it a little more continental.

#FootpathFriday

It's under there, I promise. CMD Arete, with Ben Nevis summit on the right.

My son and brother-in-law descending part of the ridge - we'd done an overnight camp just before this point, and were just getting going again after a fairly muzzy awakening. There are times it's a bit of a struggle getting out of a warm sleeping bag, but we still had the summit to ourselves before anyone else turned up.

We tobogganed down the other side to about 500m off Glen Nevis valley floor - possibly the easiest descent I've ever had off The Ben.

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