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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]