Over the last two months I have been doing very little climbing (apart from training), and far too much working. With the winter season quickly approaching, I am doing all I can to save up enough dosh so that I can take the full winter season off and still afford to go on some pretty …
It’s been a while since my last post, and I have managed to do some pretty cool climbing in that time. But unfortunately, due to the weather I haven’t done much cranking outside in the last three weeks! A few weeks back I headed out to Ireland to attend the annual Fairhead climbing meet, thankfully …
Since last weekend, I have been working in the boiling sun, chilling in the boiling sun and best of all CLIMBING loads in the boiling sun! Last Sunday I headed to Pass Of Ballater with a bunch of mates for some sunny granite cragging. It was the start of the awesome weather that we have …
On Saturday morning the usual rainy start had been replaced by blue skies and beaming sun. So I jumped in the car and headed for Dundee to pick up Dougie and Mike Shorter. We drove up the glen to the crags around Clova and proceeded to get stuck into an awesome days trading. Dougie started …
On Thursday Mike and I headed west towards the good weather, full of psyche, hoping to make some progress on our sport projects at Steall. When we arrived in the Glen the sun was beaming down and the temps were high. With no wind the conditions were not looking good for redpointing but we still …
Since my last update over a month ago I have been trapped in a whirlwind of farm work and ongoing efforts to regain some finger strength after a winter of holding onto axe handles in the sub zero temps. I have managed to have a couple of good trips on my days off. Including ventures …
Here are the links and information on how to watch and listen to the BBC interview and filming I did last week. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-17338227 Reporting Scotland tonight, BBC 1, 18:30-19:00 and after on the iPlayer, Good Morning Scotland between 06:30-09:00 and after on; http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074hf7
On Monday Adam Russell and I made the most of the brief return of winter and headed off in Lochain. This wasn’t a normal cragging day in the Northern Corries, we where accompanied by a BBC presenter and two photographers/videographers. We did some filming and some interviewing and then after some decision making, we opted to head …
When I got home from my Kandersteg trip, it was all go go go. I stopped off at the Sunderland wall on my drive home from Chamonix to run a pre-competition master-class for some of the local climbers. This went really well, and the enthusiasm of the centre and the class occupants was awesome to …
Since I arrived in Kandersteg with Adam Russell last Monday, I have managed to do some really fun routes at some amazing crags. On our first day we headed into town early and grabbed our food essentials for the week. We also popped into the local climbing shop “Alpine-Center”, to ask if they had …
