Neel Parikh

I’m currently in Denmark for a few days for some business and thought i’d share a couple pictures I snapped outside my hotel in Skanderborg yesterday morning. Enjoy!

Jordan Harbour is a hidden gem near St. Catherines; not so much for the climbing, which is quite honestly put, very mediocre, but more for the sheer cool factor of climbing the ruins of a bridge built in the 1800s. The route descriptions we read before heading out gave a whole new meaning to the word “sandbagged”. There are a few interesting looking routes in the remains of the first and second arches, but the bricks seem to have disintegrated into a sandy mess, rendering all amount of chalk and brute force jug pulling completely useless. Beyond the arches lie a series of stone towers that rise out of a murky field of gigantic grass like tombstones. Giant bolted tombstones. These, thankfully, were much more pleasant to climb, primarily because the holds didn’t disintegrate on contact. Only one of the towers is really accessible by foot, as the other bolted tower sits in a swap that is probably only accessible by boat. All said and done, apart from a couple of bored teenagers throwing firecrackers off the bridge and smoking their grandmothers cigarettes, it was a fun afternoon of climbing and a pretty neat expedition in general.