Since I returned from the Alps it’s been non-stop for me. For the first month It was pretty much just tractor driving and road biking. But this I was pleased about as the huge work load that I was undertaking was filling my pockets with money for the up and coming winter season, and the …
The vie down the Valee Blanch towardsthe Grandes Jorrases After a poor weather day on Wednesday, yesterday Ally and I decided to make the most of the small good weather window that was forecast up high in the mountains. Gearing up at the foot of the Triangle du Tacul poised and ready! We headed up …
The “Frendo Spur” (left hand obvious ridge line) This morning as Ally was out with his Mum and Aunt for the last day of their trip to Cham, I headed up on to the Plan de L’Aiguille ready and psyched for my chosen objective. A bit of snow never hurt anyone. As the weather forecast …
Cloud inversion in the Chamonix valley Yesterday morning Ally and I headed up to Plan de Aigulle on the first lift, eager and psyched to be back in the mountains after the bad weather spell that Chamonix had been having recently. Approaching the off-width on the Petits Charmoz The tricky off-width on the Petits Charmoz …
What to have…? On the 22nd Ally and I decided that we had had enough of sitting in the flat in Chamonix, waiting for the weather to get better. There had been a load of snow fall in the mountains for the past four days. So even if had cleared up, we would have had …
Me at the base of the West face of The Dru On Friday morning Ally and I headed off to the Midi Station psyched and ready for a day’s climbing on the South face of the Midi. Unfortunately when we got close to the station, we noticed that the queue for the lift was massive …
On Friday Ally and I headed up to the Peigne Slabs for some technical smeary action. We did an awesome route called Verdon Memories which is a classic multipitch line with hard slab pitches of up to 6c. Unfortunately there had been some heavy rain the previous night and the last two pitches where fairly …
Bad weather is not always bad. Well not in Chamonix! Read More »
Sunrise on the approach On Saturday morning Ally and I left Fife with a fully loaded car filled with enough gear and food to supply a small nation! This mostly consisted of Porridge, couscous and a tone of cereal bars. Getting stuck into the icy chimney We where both uber psyched to be on our …
Always Ease Yourself Into A Climbing Trip – Or Maybe Not! Read More »
Some more amazing pictures from the Islands trip. Me mid-crux on “Save Our Souls” E5 Photo credit – James Dunn Me Spying the way to go on“Little Miss Sitting Pretty” E5Photo credit -Paul Swail Mid-crux on “Little Miss Sitting Pretty” E5Photo credit – Paul Swail Starting the crux section of“Save Our Souls” E5Photo credit – James …
Loading the Boy James to head to Pabbay On Wednesday the 8th, Ally Swinton, James Dunn and I lugged our pile of gear and food bags onto the train in Waverley station and headed for Oban. We met up with Liam Ingram at Glasgow, who was one of the other guys heading out to climb …
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