Pennine Lines w/c 7 July 2025
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Pennine Lines w/c 7 July 2025

This is how spring normally goes, how it’s supposed to go; a waft of wild garlic carried down the dale on the river breeze. Benchmarks repeated, the barometer recalibrated. Good banter at the Tor. Familiar faces, back again. Stone is here with that same weird blue PVC gym mat. Ted edging with glacier-like inevitability towards the belay on Evolution. Wide-eyed and fresh-faced owners of immaculately clean pads spill four-deep out of a hatchback, first time bouldering outside, looking for the easy “V7s”, never to be seen again. A dance as old as time itself.

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Pennine Lines w/c 15 September 2024
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Pennine Lines w/c 15 September 2024

I have to say actually receiving a physical copy came as something of a surprise, as part of my personal magazine expectations baked into my psyche stem from the late 2000s. In many ways this era ushered in the decline of the UK climbing magazines, where along with not being paid very much for image use in magazines in the first place (that is if you got paid at all, or paid without having to chase them up a few times first) I distinctly remember actually having to go out and cough up a few quids worth of that hard-won cash and buy a physical copy of the magazine to even see your my work in print - hardly surprising then that a lot of us just stopped bothering submitting images to the mags. So it was great to see a couple of my images in print again in Klettern, although it does expose the fact that my grade C in GCSE German doesn’t go very far these days in terms of actually reading the magazine. Still looking for an article containing directions to the Bahnhof, taking the first straße on the left, then ordering two beers and a coffee mit sahne.

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