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The first days of spring

I particularly like this picture as there's a tree branch hiding my arse...
The weekend just gone is one of my favourite weekends of every year. Not necessarily the 19-20 March, but the first weekend that I get out climbing.

For the past few years these delicious weekends have followed a similar pattern. It’s always surprisingly warm for early spring. I’m usually surprisingly good at climbing considering I’ve been hibernating all winter. They remind me how wonderful summer is – and that it’s on its way. And finally, I come away full of resolve to climb lots and lots. And never do. The first early spring weekend usually turns out to be the best climbing I do all year.

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Rosie

Cycling is shite – a retraction

I hope that if I go back on something I’ve said you won’t lump me in the same category as the Tory government. Or any other government, just so this doesn’t get too political. Either way I’m going to have to do it – change my opinion on something I’ve fought against passionately. On the old Adventure Travel site, I wrote a piece called Five Reasons Why Cycling is Shite (and colleague Bryn wrote a response called Five Reasons Why Cycling is Not Shite. The response is definitely still rubbish). Point number two of my five was how ridiculous mountain biking is – the sort of mountain biking where you go along single-track trails over features like rocks, tree roots and, er, more rocks, that is....
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