Above: The descent path to Cummingston For the past week I have been bouncing all over the highlands to make the most of the good weather that they were having up there. I was away with James, Neil McGeachy and Ross Kirkland. We were planning on heading up the North West but as the weather …
Since my return from Pabbay, for the past two weeks I have been suffering from a very annoying chest infection. I have been getting out climbing a bit recently but every time I get on something slightly tricky, I go into an uncontrollable coughing fit (which is never good when you are trad climbing). Even …
For the past week I have been climbing on Pabbay, which is an uninhabited Island in the Outer Hebrides. I have been to the Island twice before, except I was not planning on going again this year. When a friend called to say his climbing partner had bailed on him and he was looking for …
Yesterday Charlie and I headed to Limekilns for a fairly easy days trading. I hadn’t been there in over a year so It was fun to warm up on some of the classics then moving onto some trickier stuff. Firstly I did “Marley’s Ghost” which was one of the few E2’s at Limekilns that I …
Mhairi , Charlie, Stuart and I went up to Dunkeld (upper cave) today. It was looking dry and everyone was psyched and ready to go. As I put the clips in the sport routes, Stuart made short work of “Crutch” which is an awesome little two starred severe. Charlie, Mhairi and I then had a …
Yesterday Guy and I headed up into the Gorms for one last blast before the winter climbing conditions leave us to make way for another summer. Below; Guy on first pitch Last time we were in Lochain we had spied a few new lines that looked totally awesome. One of which was a steep overhanging …
Today Adam, Mhairi, Charlie and I headed to the Cambusbarron quarries for some smeggy dolorite action. Thankfully it was fairly cold today so the smeg was low and the friction was high. We started in the out-quarry and all did a number of routes, Mhairi onsighted “the doobie brothers” E1 5b, Charlie did a few …
Yesterday we headed back to Dunkeld for some more trad and sport crankage. Mhairi and I were keen to get on “Silk Teddy’s” and Andy was psyched for “Hamish Teddy’s Excellent Adventure” so we started by sticking the clips in our routes and getting warmed up. After a few goes on the sport wall I …
Yesterday Mhairi, Andy, Stuart and I headed up to Pass Of Ballater for some more granite trad action in the sun. Everyone got a bunch of routes done, including Stuart who did his first HVS which was also his 3rd trad route lead. Not a bad way to start his summer. Mhairi and Andy also …
Today Mhairi, Andy and I headed to Upper Cave (Dunkeld). We were all psyched for the sport routes but when we arrived at the crag we realised the sport wall was totally soaked through. Which was a shame, as the weather was awesome and the sun was shining. We had a look around and realised …
