Why

For about 12 years, a copy of the ubiquitous climbers' coffee table compilation Classic Rock has sat in our lounge, thumbed through and talked over but never seen as a tick-list.

After an amazing sunny weekend in February 2019 which saw us experience 4 Classic Rock routes we realised that over that 12 years we'd inadvertently ticked off about 20 of them. It was soon suggested that since we were a quarter of the way through the book anyway, surely the obvious thing to do would be to "finish them off" and so a long-term ambition was born; a climbing partnership cemented for the long-haul.
We're not the first to attempt it and we're not doing it quickly, or cycling between them or anything else that would make us unique. But we aim to finish them all at some point before we're too weak to do so.
So join us on what may be a 30 year journey of snatched weekends and bits of family holidays as we experience all that Ken Wilson described as "Classic".
As for the sponsored bit of the event; let's make a deal. I'm not going to tell you what you should give money to and I'm not expecting you to give just because we are going climbing. But how about every time I post an update of our progress, you remember to do something good or give money to something, or bake a cake for a neighbour.
Onwards and Upwards

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