Its been just over two weeks since I arrived back home and already Scotland seems like a distant memory! Things got off to great start, getting stuck back into work, doing a few days for rock and ride, and bits and pieces for myself. However, since then I’ve been feeling a little under the weather, and was forced […]
Today was my final day of two weeks working with Tollymore on the winter mountaineering course. For the last day we headed up into t-Sneachda to consolidate on all the new rope work skills. The corries looked like a very different place than yesterday, with the rise in temperatures dramatically striping back the snow. We had […]
Today I headed back up to Lochain with Rory, Chris and Frank on day four of their mountaineering course with Tollymore. There had been a reasonable amount of fresh snow since yesterday, which bumped the avalanche risk up a bit. Bearing this in mind we headed for the edge of the snow slope, which had […]
Today was day 3 of the winter mountaineering course for Tollymore. The guys were keen to look at rope work and pitching on not only snow, but on rocky mixed round and using some rock gear aswell. We started the day of with a rope work session back at base, this gave a good oportunity […]
Today we headed into the shoulder of Lochain. This provided us with some steeper snow than yesterday and gave us a good opportunity to expand on our crampon skills. It was forecast to be a pretty windy day, with winds increasing throughout the day. I opted not to head up onto the plateau, didnt see […]
Today I started another week of winter mountaineering for Tollymore. As per usual day one started of with having a good look at moving about on snow. With low winds and good visibility forecast Trevor and myself decide to take both groups up the Fiacaill ridge, avoiding the crest, don’t want to over do it on […]
I was out on the Ben Yesterday on a guided climbing day for hughes mountaineering. After meeting Ronan and finding out a bit about what he had already done we decided to go and have a look at good friday climb up on the indicator wall. There isn’t a great deal of stuff left on […]
Friday saw the end of the 5 day winter mountaineering course with tollymore. We decided to round the week off with a journey into Braeriach. Aswell as the Lee, Paul, Ernie and Tom, we also had the company of Colie, the Tollymore chef, who had decided to tag along for a day out in the hills […]
Today I headed back into Lochain with the guys, on day 4 of their mountaineering course with tollymore. The forecast was giving it to be showery in the east so we decided to go for a shorter day on the hill, giving the legs a bit of a rest after our tramp around the plateau […]
Today we decided to go for a bit of a journey up on the Cairngorm plateau. We headed up Fiacaill ridge, which had no snow what so ever on it, but still a great way to gain the plateau. From there we headed up onto Cairn Lochan and then started to make our way towards […]