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    • Feeding the King Rat on Creag an Dubh Loch
    • No. 6 – The Number of the Mini Beast
    • Seeing the light on Deep Cut Chimney, Hell’s Lum
    • The Dog’s Danglies on K9 and Window Gully
    • Getting the Blood Flowing on Coronary Bypass
    • Worth the Wait on Transept Groove, Lochnagar
    • An Exposed Spanking in the Gorges du Verdon
    • Full value on The Sandpyper Direct
    • It’s not over until it’s over – The Needle and The Pause
    • Winter-lite on Liathach and Beinn Bhan
    • Lean times in Lochan and that other coire
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    • Ticks in the Glen – Polldubh Crags
    • Paradise in Patagonia
    • Gotta Love Spring – Sunny Curved Ridge, Icy White Line
    • Hit and Miss but Always Stunning in Torridon
    • Left or Right? Unsure and off Centrist, Lochnagar
    • Savage Slit and Silver Linings
    • A Day Off on the Dubh Loch – Cyclops
    • A Tale of Two Halves – Chamonix 2015 Trip Report
    • Blood, Sweat and Slopers – Pas de Friction in Font
    • Winter Lingers on Beinn a’Bhuird
    • Hot Rock on the Etive Slabs and Garbh Bheinn
    • Alpine on An Teallach
    • Perfect Conditions – Winter Sun in Fontainebleau
    • West Is Best – Classic Ice on Ben Nevis
    • The Drool, Eagles Rock
    • Shadow Buttress B, Bells Route
    • Crepes and crushing – Fontainebleau trip report
    • Sun, snow and summits – Chamonix trip report
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An exposed spanking in the Gorges du Verdon

29 Oct
A very recent addition to the Misty Mountain Hop family meant an objectively hazardous alpine climbing trip wasn’t on the cards this year. Instead, some chilled bolt-clipping was in order  – and that is exactly what we didn’t get in...
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A Tale of Two Halves – Chamonix 2015 Trip Report

12 Sep
“At lizt twenty-foer heurs” the clerk informed me at the lost baggage desk. Merde! Stunning weather and no climbing gear for our first day in Chamonix then! Combined with a flooded apartment and our transposal to a bedsit, this was not a...
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Sun, snow and summits – Chamonix trip report

22 Sep
Watching the weather during the months leading up to our trip to the Mont Blanc massif, one could be forgiven for despairing – continued reports of cold, wet, stormy weather didn’t inspire confidence that we would achieve much. Accounts from...
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  • Feeding the King Rat on Creag an Dubh Loch July 13, 2018

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