On Thursday night I jumped on the train again to Aberdeen, to meet up with Guy. We then headed over to the Lochnagar car park, where we met up with Nick Bullock, who had driven up from Wales earlier that day. We sorted out the gear and after I had set up Guys tent, we …
Two weeks ago, Guy, my Dad and I headed up into the Dubh Loch in search of some super hard and steep winter climbing, well me and Guy did, my dad was keen on photo duty. Our intended objective wasn’t looking too wintery, so we opted to have a look at another line in the …
While sitting on my couch feeling a little down, full of a flue/cold, without a functional car and looking at amazing weather outside, I started to think about all the cool things I’ve done in Scotland over the past couple of winter seasons. And when I started thinking of all these cool things I’ve done, …
On Sunday, Guy and I headed off in the direction of Beinn Bhan hoping to climb something big, steep and hard on the Giants Wall. But unfortunately when we arrived at the bottom of the face in the morning light, it was BLACK! Unfazed, we quickly darted around trying to find something in good condition …
On Sunday night I headed off west to meet Adam in the Nevis Range car park. He had been climbing in Sneachda that day and had headed over ready for some Ben cranking on Monday. We trotted up to the hut and got settled in ready for the good conditions and good weather that was …
On Wednesday night I headed back over to the Ben with Adam Russell for an early start on Thursday morning. We started from the car at 7am and trotted off to dump our stuff in the hut before heading up to No.3 area for a look at a new line that I had been reminded …
Over the past two weeks I have managed to get a fair bit of climbing done, both in the Lakes and in the awesome Scottish mountains. Now that winter has returned and that it looks to be around for a while, I will hopefully be getting a lot more done soon. Two weeks ago today …
So winter has arrived… On Saturday I managed to get out into the hills with Dougie. Hoping to find some winter conditions, Dougie, Adam, Lindsey and I headed up into Coire an Lochain full of early season psyche and anticipation. To our joy, we found pretty much every route in condition, baring one or two …
Last Wednesday I got the all clear from my boss on the farm to have the next week off. So then it was all go for a last minute trip! Dougie and Adam were already planning on driving out to Chamonix on the Friday night, so I just arranged to tag along with them, for …
As I said in my last post, I would soon hopefully be writing about my success on my project at Newtyle cave, and that is exactly what I’m doing just now! On Sunday, Adam, Dougie, Ross, Mhairi, Steve and I headed up to Newtyle for a day of sending and psyche! Thankfully the sun was …
