The forecast wasn’t looking fantastic today, with increasing winds and rain on the cards. Mikey and myself opted for Boomerang gully In Coire nan Lochan. The gully gets grade II, so is pretty straight forward ground, meaning that we would be able to move pretty fast and get back down, hopefully before the weather closed […]
Things have been rather warm over the last few days, seems like Scotland has been missing out on all the cold weather that the rest of the uk has been getting! Freezing levels were close to and above the summits at times, hard to get psyched when everything is melting, so havent been out in […]
Headed out yesterday with Swail and Mikey. Swail is busy preping for his winter ML assessment so we decided to head up to Sron na Lairig, this gave plenty of scope for swail to get another quality mountain day in the log book but also gave me a chance to do a bit more short […]
Myself and John headed over to the cairngorms last night to hook up with swail and his camper van. The forecast was giving winds of up to 70mph, this didnt stop swail from parking the camper side on to the wind!! We would have been been rocked to sleep nicely had we not have been […]
Headed round to the west face of Aonach Mor today with John. We decided to climb Golden Oldy, as neither of us had climbed it before, and it was a really good route to practice some more short roping. Once again the weather was on our side, after leaving the shade of the valley floor we were […]
Headed out with John today for another day of short roping. We had a reasonably late start and decided to head up towards Sron na Creise in Glencoe. We made our way up the north ridge onto Stob a Ghlais Choire, then descended via its northeast ridge. It was a great day out, deffinately seems to […]
Been out and about in the hills quite alot of the last few days, thrusday saw me up on the Ben with Adam. He was keen to get onto the Sioux wall, this is a stunning mixed route, but much harder than anything I have ever climbed in winter before, so i was keen to follow […]
Ive been pretty busy the last 6 days, queens mountaineering club have been over on their annual scottish winter trip and myself and John Orr have been out working with them.We started the week of with a two day intro to winter skills, heading into buachaille etive beag on the first day, then up into […]
Bit of a stinker today, windy with shower after shower moving through, the plan had been to go do something low on the Ben, but after looking out the window this morning bed was much more appealing! After chatting with a few guys who went up and had a look i was reassured that bed had […]
I have been putting off jumping onto the blogging band wagon for far too long now, so i thought what better time to get started than the beginning of my winter season! Once again I have made the winter migration over to Scotland, where i am based in Fortwilliam until the end of march. The plan is to […]