Category Archives: Crag Side Tales

Climbing in the 80sThere were no climbing specialists in the 1980s. If you considered yourself a climber you aspired to climb everything. Cracks, faces, dihedrals (corners) and arêtes. Hard trad lines at the local crag and big walls were all on the menu – all training to one day bash your way to the summit […]

Faye Brouard (not Super Babe) on the scary section of Forbidden Fruit (7b) A day at the crag follows a predictable routine. Wander in, warm up, decide on ‘the business’, and then get on with the task at hand. We all ponder powerful, complex sequences and shout like banshees when one of us decides to […]