While preparing our holiday and travel plans for 2024, I decided to look at what countries I visited in the past to see what interesting places we might have missed. The easiest way to do that is using one of the freely available countries or places visited websites. I chose …
more ...Here is a simple comparison of some of the bouldering and climbing gyms that I visited recently. The list is sorted by decreasing boulder or climbing surface and number of routes or problems. I personally visited each of the gyms at least once and typically several times. The ranking is …
more ...This is a list of major peaks and ridges in the UK that are of particular interest for mountaineering, scrambling or rock climbing. I have marked the ones which I have climbed and I provide photos and GPS measurements of their summits, where they could be acquired.
I have made a few technical changes to the blog and the website over the last few days. The most visible ones are that the access to the website is encrypted by default now, i.e. you will see in the address bar that the URL starts with https and …
more ...Over the last few days, I have played around with ways to project three dimensional GPS track data onto photographs. My primary motivation was to use GPS track data that I had recorded on one of our recent scrambles to visualise the route that we had taken across a mountain …
more ...When I first started rock climbing in Australia back in 2013, there was a bit of unfamiliarity with the names of tools and techniques that I had used for many years in my home country, but of which I knew only their German names. As a result, I often had …
more ...Over the last few weeks, I have done a general cleanup of the blog. It mostly dealt with layout changes and improvements to the way content is presented. The aim was to make it easier to discover all the content, to browse and to read it.
For example, I have …
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