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We did a road trip around the UK!

The motto of Climbfind is “Find and share your passion”. Our goal is to continually help climbers find new people and new places so that everyone has a constant supply of fresh and challenging climbing experiences.

With that in mind, we set about to travel through England, Scotland and Wales to visit 30+ indoor climbing gyms and meet as many climbing enthusiasts around the UK as possible in 7 days.

At each climbing wall we put up posters, left our cards, took youtube video tours, met the owners and climbed with the locals :).

Endless thanks for all the warms hospitality, hot brews, free t-shirts with promotional codes, hoodies, keyrings and general kindness.

Jonathon & Kevin

Video coverage

Friday Nov 21 18:30 The Climbfind team leaves London in high spirit, ready to visit 30+ climbing walls around England, Scotland and Wales. The mission is to distribute 10,000 cards and 500 posters around the UK.

Friday Nov 21 21:30 Visiting the Peterborough Climbing Wall (Peterborough, 2 hours north of London)

Saturday Nov 22 08:30 The morning of Day 2: On the road to visit 5 climbing walls in 3 UK cities. Nottingham Climbing Centre (Nottingham), The Edge Climbing Centre (Sheffield), The Foundy (Sheffield), Climbing Works (Sheffield) & The Leeds Wall (Leeds)

Saturday Nov 22 10:30 Visiting the Nottingham Climbing Centre (Nottingham, middle of England)

Saturday Nov 22 13:00 Visiting The Edge Climbing Centre (Sheffield, middle of England)

Saturday Nov 22 15:00 Visiting The Foundry Climbing Centre (Sheffield, middle of England)

Saturday Nov 22 16:15 Spanky the fouth member of the Climbfind road trip team and Climbfind mascot

Saturday Nov 22 16:45 Visiting The Climbing Works (Sheffield, middle of England)

Saturday Nov 22 18:30 Interview with Lauren Holt: What it's like to go road trippin with two crazy Aussies

Saturday Nov 22 18:40 Visiting The Leeds Wall (Leeds, middle of England)

Video coming at the end of this week...

Saturday Nov 22 20:15 Spanky only eats chips

Sunday Nov 23 08:15 The morning of day 3: Change of plans, heading north east to the Kendal Mountain Film Festival in the Lake District and on our way to visit 5 more walls including Inglesport (Ingleton), Lakeland Climbing Centre (Kendal), Newton Rigg Wall (Penrith), Eden Climbing Wall (Penrith) & The Glasgow Climbing Centre (Glasgow)

Sunday Nov 23 10:30 Visiting Inglesport (Ingleton, north west of England)

Sunday Nov 23 12:00 Visiting Lakeland Climbing Centre (Kendal, north west of England)

Sunday Nov 23 13:45 The Kendal Mountain Film Festival (Kendal, north west of England)

Sunday Nov 23 15:00 Visiting Newton Rigg Wall (Penrith, north west of England)

Sunday Nov 23 16:00 Visiting Eden Climbing Wall (Penrith, north west of England)

Sunday Nov 23 17:45 Visiting The Glasgow Climbing Centre (Glasgow, South west of Scotland)

Monday Nov 24 08:45 The Morning of Day 4, leaving Glasgow on our Way to Edinburgh and beyond to visit 5 more climbing walls including Eica Ratho (Edingburh), Alien One (Edingburgh), Alien Two (Edinburgh), Climb Newcastle (Newcastle Upon Tyne) & Sunderland Wall (Sunderland / Newcastle Upon Tyne).

Monday Nov 24 10:45 Arriving at the Eica Ratho Climbing Arena (Edingburgh, south east of Scotland)

Monday Nov 24 11:15 Exploring the Eica Ratho Climbing Arena (Edingburgh, south east of Scotland)

Monday Nov 24 13:45 Spanky doesn't like sandwiches

Video coming tomorrow...

Monday Nov 24 14:15 Visiting Alien One (Edingburgh, south east of Scotland)

Monday Nov 24 15:45 Visiting Alien Two (Edingburgh, south east of Scotland)

Monday Nov 24 16:15 Find and share your *Passsion* (Blooper 1)

Monday Nov 24 16:15 Find and share your *Passsion* (Blooper 2)

Monday Nov 24 19:00 Visiting Climb Newcastle at The Byker Wall (Newcastle Upon Tyne, north east of England)

Monday Nov 24 20:30 Visiting The Sunderland Wall (Newcastle Upon Tyne, north east of England)

Monday Nov 24 22:15 Treating ourselves to a hot meal

Monday Nov 24 22:20 Kev couldn't get it up. After climbing 30m 6b, 26m 6c, 25m 6b+, 12m horizontal roof climb, 11m blog feature 6c wall and 23m 6b kev couldn't finish his final 6A for the day.

Monday Nov 24 23:50 Night 4 on the CF Roadtrip - Crashing in the car.

Tuesday Nov 25 08:30 The morning of day 5, on our way to Manchester to visit Climb Rochedale (Rochdale), Awesome Walls (Liverpool), Rope Race (Stockport) & Awesome Walls (Stockport)

Tuesday Nov 25 10:30 Visiting Climb Rochedale (Rochedale, centre of England)... sorry about my pronounciation of the town.

Tuesday Nov 25 12:30 Visiting Awesome Walls Liverpool (Liverpool, centre of England)

Tuesday Nov 25 17:30 Visiting Rope Race Climbing Centre (Stockport, centre of England)

Tuesday Nov 25 18:30 Visiting Awesome Walls Stockport (Stockport, centre of England)

Wednesday Nov 26 08:30 The morning of day 6, on our way to Birmingham... Little do we know what's instore :)

Wednesday Nov 26 10:00 Our car tire almost blew up!

Wednesday Nov 26 11:00 Standard Climbfind roadtrip meal, climbing sandwiches 101 with Kevin Kinnison

Wednesday Nov 26 11:30 Being toed of the tollway

Wednesday Nov 26 14:30 Visiting Creation Climbing (Birmingham, centre of England)

Video coming tomorrow...

Wednesday Nov 26 14:30 Visiting Repoint Climbing Centre (Birmingham, centre of England)

Wednesday Nov 26 17:30 Leaving Birmingham in our brand new hire car

Wednesday Nov 26 18:30 The Climbfind Roadtrip goes into bonus territory. Thanks to everyone!

Thursday Nov 27 8:45 The morning of day 7, on our way into Wales to see Boulders (Cardiff), Dynamic Rock (Swansea), The Warehouse (Glouster) & Undercover Rock (Bristol)

Thursday Nov 27 10:15 Visiting Boulders (Cardiff)

Thursday Nov 27 12:15 Visiting Dynamic Rock (Swansea)

Thursday Nov 27 16:15 Visiting The Warehouse (Glouster)

Video coming tomorrow...

Thursday Nov 27 16:15 Visiting Undercover Rock (Bristol)

Friday Nov 28 12:15 Visiting The Arch (London)

Friday Nov 28 15:15 Visiting The Castle (London)

Friday Nov 28 21:15 Visiting The Westway Sports Centre (London)

Video coming tomorrow...

Photos

Spanky The Climbfind Mascot Visits The Foundry in Sheffield

Handing our cards and Posters at The Climbing Works in Sheffield

On the road to Kendal and Lauren hung over

Climbing at the Lakeland Climbing Centre in Kenal

Lovley 18m Lead wall at the Lakeland Climbing Centre

Kev and Lauren down in the Eica Ratho Arena in Edingburh

The religion of climbing in Liverpool at Awesome Walls

A beauty of an arch at Awesome walls Liverpool

23.5m straight up vertical at Awesome Walls in Stockport

Briging onto the Stalecties at The Repoint Centre in Birmingham

Kev Bridging on the stalectite in Birmingham

Our planned itinerary

We are going to try to visit 30+ rock climbing walls in 7 days! Note below is only a rough plan. Use the + and - buttons in the top left corner of the map to zoom in and out, and move the mouse pointer over the Climbing location icon icons to see where each climbing gym is.