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Tag: Leah Crane

The Project Climbing Centre Birthday Bash

December 1, 2016

The Project Climbing Centre has been such an amazing addition to Dorset’s climbing scene.

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Let's hope this weather keeps coming! • @danbrow

Let's hope this weather keeps coming!
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@danbrownedesign on 'Acid Jazz Disco' 7a, Wallsend.
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#sportclimbing #afterthesend #portland

Between snow showers! 🌨 • @_hannah_whaley_ on

Between snow showers! 🌨
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@_hannah_whaley_ on 'Twangy Pearl' 7b at Blacknor Central, Portland.
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#sportclimbing #afterthesend #Portland

Wallsend North rock! 😍 • @tomisnotdead • #c

Wallsend North rock! 😍
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@tomisnotdead
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#climbing #afterthesend #Portland

I have missed getting those try hard faces but I w

I have missed getting those try hard faces but I was fortunate enough that Emmie was giving them out last week!
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Absolutely loving getting behind the camera again at the cliffs!
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@emma_fizzle
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#womenwhoclimb #afterthesend #swanage

Our sanity board! • @emma_fizzle trying hard on

Our sanity board!
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@emma_fizzle trying hard on our mini wall.
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#homeclimbingwall #afterthesend #bouldering

#pandemicportfolio One of the things I love about

#pandemicportfolio
One of the things I love about climbing so much is the road trips. Whether the road trip is weeks/months in a van in Europe or a day trip to somewhere not that far away.
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A road trip to Font was the trip that made me realise 'I can travel!' This might seem odd to people but that was the turning point. It became possible just to do it, sack it off and go somewhere else. I had seen friends travel and thought 'I can't do that I have a job, I have this, I have that' but that trip just tossed all that aside and I was ready. On the way back from Font I decided I would quit my job as a mechanic and do the South East Asia and Australia thing. Since then every year I go on several road trips. Whether it's illegally curled up in the back of a ford transit from Portland to the Peaks or a 72 hour trip to Font. Even last year @emma_fizzle and I had our 'honeymoon' road tripping around Scotland in between lockdowns.
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These pictures are a mix of different trips long and short. I will try and dig out the picture from my first trip, but it's never easy to find. @lee.seb stashed it away for years!
Photo 1- Emmie in Pascal on one of our many group Font trips. We also slept in Pascal with all that shit in there!
Photo 2- @tomisnotdead and @dirtyroadhard in the front of the frozen Transit on a trip in Cheddar in early January.
Photo 3- Tom Dale returning from a day trip to Fairy Cave (I think?).
Photo 4- @angusian26 chilling in his van amid a multi-day trip to Bream then Ham Hill. Both within an hour and a half of our homes.
Photo 5- Emmie and I's trip to the Lake District on new year's eve a few years back.
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When these lockdowns lift get out there guys! Respect the locals but travel!!!
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#climbing #afterthesend #roadtrip

I can't wait to get back on the rope for the climb

I can't wait to get back on the rope for the climbing but also the photography. Coming home with a good photo often feels as good as coming home with a new tick.
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🧗‍♀️@tomisnotdead on ??(who can guess it?)??, Boulder Ruckle, Swanage.
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#tradclimbing #afterthesend #swanage

Dreaming of sunset climbs... • @emma_fizzle on '

Dreaming of sunset climbs...
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@emma_fizzle on 'Lifeline', Blacknor South.
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#sportclimbing #afterthesend #Portland

That's another year coiled up and packed away. •

That's another year coiled up and packed away.
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In 2019 I decided to start keeping a record of all the sport routes I had been on, as long as I got to the top and touched the chains, not only clean attempts. I have done this in a notebook and also made a note of any fingerboard sessions or other forms of climbing. This is because I like my @ukclimbing logbook clean with only ascents and tries if I haven't cleaned them up (so geeky I know). I also note my top clean routes and how many times I have tapped the chains for each month.
Having 2019 and 2020 beside each other really shows the difference between the years. Nearly 220 fewer chains tapped this year and nearly half as many new routes ticked. This is partly because of the poor weather at the start of the year but mainly the lack of trips meant that most of my climbing was on the island which I have climbed a lot of already, 42% according to UKC. Not having the time on the rock and having fewer easily accessible harder routes has seen my harder climbs tail off.
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I realise how lucky I have been to get out and climb as much as I have in a year which has been dreadful for so many! I'm thankful for all my mates and my wife for keeping me active and entertained. Let's hope in 2021, at some point, we can meet up at crag in Spain with a ton of mates and have a week of ticking new routes! For now, stay safe and stick to the rules!
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#sportclimbing #afterthesend #staysafe

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