I climb mainly around the Lancashire quarries north of Manchester and occasionally in Lake District. Regular haunts include the Wiltons, Troy (our climbing home for early and late summer season) and occasionally Anglezarke and Witches Quarry (a place I wish I could visit more often). I climb between S on a bad day and VS on a very good day, normally hovering around a HS most of the time.

When it gets too dark at nights to climb, we retire to Climb UK in Rochdale. It a great indoor centre, with equally good climbing and bouldering. It just a pity the pub round the corner which brewed its own beer has closed now :^(

Troy is a fanastic place to climb if you are a grade S-VS climber with several classics, add a nice pub just down the road (go past the brewers fayre as you head towards haslingden), and you can't go wrong.

Witches is on the north side of Pendle Hill and the hardest thing is to find it even with GPS. You can park within 20m of the climb, and has some amazing climbs, some topos of which are on the gallery, and again a great pub a couple of miles up the road.

Adventures further afield have included Scout Crag and Middlefell Buttress in Langdale and an aborted attempt on Pillar Rock.

Aborted as in not even getting a foot on the rock, due to constant drizzle for 2 days we were out there. Nevermind carrying full camping gear over a 400m pass and then up 250m up the side of pillar sapping any energy we would have had for the climb. Add in camping on the flattest bit of land on the hill which still had a 10 degree slope and the winds you could hear for 30 seconds funnelling up the valley before they nearly picked the tent up, and it was not an experience you don't forget in a hurry.