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 …
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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 …
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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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ALL NEW……… Check out my Dads new website http://www.ecosseimages.co.uk/. He will be running photography holidays and workshops throughout the year in partnership with Simon Yearsley’s Big Tree Campervans taking photographers into the wilderness of Scotland. His images are also available to buy direct from his web site. Please check it out…
Since the weather was so nice over the past few weeks, last week I managed get two good evenings climbing after work at Dunkeld with Ally Swinton. We did a fair few laps on most of the sport routes at upper cave, in preparation for our up-coming Pabbay/Mingulay trip that is swiftly approaching. Having had a good …
Me on my project at Steall Hut crag Recently I have been planning my summer, and trying to organize and cram as many trips into the sunny months as possible. While still fitting in some time to work on the farm and save money to fund these ventures. Tweedley busting a move at Steall Over the last …
Me Looking for friction on “Monkey Spanking”Photo. Neil Carnegie Last night, Adam Russell, Neil Carnegie and I headed to Cambusbarron for an evening rock session in the sun. We started off by doing the awesome boulder problem “Monkey Spanking” which ascends the steep slab with friction only foot holds. Once we had done this Adam …
Today I headed up to Dunkeld (Fun-keld) with Ali Robb for some sport action in the beaming sunshine. I was keen to get back on the 7c+ “The Silk Purse” soon, as I had had a couple of goes on the route last week and was getting pretty close to ticking it. After warming up …
Over the past six week I have mostly been bouldering and dabbling in a bit of sport climbing, trying to get some finger strength back after the winter season. But on Wednesday James, Nial Harris and Neil Carnegie and I all jumped into my faithful Renault Scenic and headed NW for some sea cliff trad …
