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 […]
Today was day 2 of the winter mountaineering course for tollymore. We headed up into t-sneachda,where winter looked like it was well and truely gone!! The remaining snow to be found in the corrie was over by the point 5 area, and was prefect for what we were looking to do. The aim was to […]
This week I am working on a winter mountaineering course for tollymore, with Tom, Paul, Lee and Ernie. Day one saw us heading up into Coire nan Lochan to look at moving on snow. We found quite a bit of snow that had managed to withstand the thaw in behind the shoulder of lochan, the easterly […]
I spent the last week working on an introduction to snow and ice climbing course with Olly and Mark, despite being a pretty horrible week weather wise we managed to get a lot done and had a really good week. Day 1 of the course was spent in the ice factor, this is a fantastic […]
Headed up to the Ben yesterday with Mikey and Mark, forecast was looking slighty better than the last few days, with a lower freezing level, although it was set to rise throughout the day with increasing wind and precipitation meaning an earlier start was on the cards. 6.30am and we were on our way round to […]