Pic; James on first pitch of Side Winder Yesterday James and I headed back into Coire an Lochan, we did the first two pitches of ”Side Winder”, we then finished up the last pitch of ”Western Route”. It was a good link up and made a more sustain variation. The conditions where still good except …
Today Euan and I ventured up into Coire an Lochan for some winter mixed action. To our surprise the climbing conditions where amazing with the buttresses where fully rimed up and the small amount of turf on our route was frozen solid. We did the route ”Deep Throat” V/6, which is a good route following …
On Tue the 3rd Damo and I where getting stuck into the routes in the cave at Burnam (Dunkeld). We were doing Fast and Furious, it was Damiens first time on the route and he was making short work of the powerful moves. It was good to get back on the steep routes as im …
Pics; Top- Andy E3, Mid- Adam Chisel E4 Bottom- Me Chisel E4 Over the last few weeks I have made a couple of trips up to Dunkled (upper cave), I have been trying Silkteddys and I should get it soon. Yesterday Adam , Andy and I went to Cambusbarron out quarry. We did a bundle …
After gluing up my split finger Euan and I had two more days sport climbing in the French Alps. We both got to finnish off the routes we had been trying over the last week and after looking at the up and coming weather forcast we decided to head home a few days earlier. No …
Over the last 2 days Euan and I have been sport climbing in the valley. The weather in the mountains is not looking good for the rest of the trip, so it looks like its the single pitch stuff for the duration. Today I fell off the last move of a 7b due to a …
11/9/09 Yesterday Euan and I met up with some friends that were staying in the area for some social valley cragging. We went to La Duchere near Les Contamines. We both did some single pitch routes ranging from 6b to 7a. It was a fun relaxing day in the sun.
10/9/09 After a nights bivi in the mountains, (which I enjoyed and slept very well, Euan on the other hand hardly slept at all because of the cold). My alarm went off at 6am, we ate our breakfast which consisted of granola with yoghurt (a favourite of the trip) and then headed off towards our …
9/9/09 On Wednesday morning Euan and I headed back to sector Thermes at Le Fayet. I did a really enjoyable 6b called Tostaky, this route was not to hard but had some really nice moves. We both then went on to try a new 7b which also involved some nice climbing with a fairly powerful …
7/9/09 After a successful days climbing the day before and a well earned sleep where the only sound that could be heard was the sound of giant seracs falling down in the distance every so often which is slightly relaxing when you know you are no were near them. We set off to get the …
