Above and Below: Approaching the route After returning home at 1 am on Sunday morning from my antics on the Ben, I caught a few hours sleep before waking up and checking my emails. I had a message waiting from Guy Robertson asking if I was keen to head into the Gorms on Monday for …
Ok put rock cragging on hold, winter is BACK!!!!!!! Yesterday Ian Parnell and I headed up to a very wintery Ben Nevis to do a route on the Indicator wall area. On the walk in it was snowing hard and the rock was looking very white. There seemed to be lots of ice still lurking …
Today Ali Swinton and I decided to go for some rock gragging instead of following the hords up to a slushy Ben Nevis. We headed to Pass of Ballater, this was the first time I had been there and I found it to be an awsome grag. The weather was good and we both had …
pic; me leading the first pitch Yesterday James and I headed back to Udlaidh. I was hoping to try Andy Turners new mixed line on the lower tier but when I got to the base of the route I found that it was dripping and running with water as the temperature was quite high. Not …
Pics; (first 4) Me on the first pitch After returning from the Alps on Saturday, I was keen to get out climbing again so today James and I headed up to Beinn Udlaidh to get stuck into the fat ice that James had been raving about over the past few days. We went up to …
Conge Conditions. The Ice conditions in Conge are not too bad at the moment. There is a lot to climb and most of the routes are fat and formed, with only a few not in condition. I did not get pictures of “Flash Estivo” (WI-3) or “Fiumana Di Money” (WI-3) but they are both in …
Last week Damien and I got an offer from a friend to share a ride to Cogne in Italy on Sunday. So yesterday we got up bright and early and headed into Cham to meet up with Charlie and a friend of his (Abbs) to head to Conge. Unfortunately Damo has been ill for the …
Hoping to do a mixed route on the Midi, Damien and I got up early and headed up to Chamonix to try and catch the first bin up the mountain. Unfortunately due to high winds the bin was not running and it looked like it would be a while before it would be. We decided …
Today Damien and I went drytooling at Le Fayet. The weather was crap in the mountains and it wastoo warm to ice climb so we opted for a training day. It was good fun and we did some ok routes and got boxed out our minds so its all good. Back into the mountains tomorrow …
On Monday after Sarah and James had left to go back to Britain, Damien and I headed up the Midi to go out onto the Vallée Blanche to check out the condition of the high mountain ice and mixed routes. Over the past three weeks the routes have been getting fatter and starting to look …
