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 …
Yesterday, James, Mhairi and I headed back to Glen Clova to sample some more of the awesome bouldering that this picturesque glen has to offer. We all got some good problems sent and also opened up some short term projects. It was pretty cold, with a chilled breeze blowing down the glen over the snow capped …
Me on Monty PythonsPhoto credited to Sean Bell Recently I have had a few trips down to Kyloe In and Out. Over the past week James, Andy Moles, Sean Bell and I have made a couple of trips south to sample some of the awesome bouldering thats hiding in the woods in Northumberland. Having only …
Hamish Teddy’s at DunkeldPhoto Credited to Sean bell Over the past week I have been making the most of the sunny dry conditions. The trad season is swiftly approaching and it’s been good to get some training done outside on the sport routes and boulders, rather than stuck in a stuffy climbing gym! Dangleberries at …
A few weeks ago, while sitting on the belay ledge below the top pitch of “Omerta”, I witnessed Andy Turner top out on the 2nd ascent of “The Hurting”. This route had been in my thoughts for a while, but the bold start had made me hesitant. However, seeing Andy top out was so inspirational …
After being pretty wiped out for the last couple of days from my recent cold/flue thingy, I decided that I needed to get out the house for some fresh air and do some training. So today I arranged to meet up with Ines, Charly and Hans for some mixed tooling action at Newtyle quarry (Dunkeld). …
Over the past three days I have been making the most of the post thaw conditions in the mountains. Charly Fritzer on “Ventricle” On Wednesday I met up with Ines Papert and her friends who are over from Germany and Austria for ten days of Scottish winter mixed madness. We headed up to Coire an …
