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Extreme Buffeting in the Cairngorms, again.
First day climbing with my Dad this year. We battled the southerly wind into Sneachda and after a couple of detours made our way to the Mess of Pottage which turned out to be quite sheltered. We headed up Hidden more »
Posted in Cairngorms, Scottish Winter Climbing, mixed climbing
Tagged Hidden Chimney direct
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Fine and not so fine weather in the Cairngorms
I’m out climbing with Alastair and Hugo this week, we’ve had a couple of contrasting days. An amazing days climbing yesterday, fantastic weather and a slightly different morning today where we nipped in to Sneachda, up our route and back more »
Winter is back.
The weather has gone cold again in time for the weekend, and plenty of folk seem to have made the drive/fly/train journey up to Scotland to sample the climbing. Sneachda was really busy yesterday, with many teams on the gullies more »
BMG Winter training course
Just back in Newtonmore after four days on the BMG winter training course. Some mixed weather, including a really wet day in Glencoe when we were looking at some short roping where everything got a soaking. Yesterday was spent looking more »
The Melting Pot, Sneachda
Dragged myself out of bed this morning to find a lot of fresh snow pilled on top of my van, the new winter tyres proved their worth this morning on the drive back up to Cairngorm. Rocio and I walked more »
Posted in Cairngorms, Scottish Winter Climbing, mixed climbing
Tagged The Melting Pot
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A return to Glencoe
Matt and I made the drive over to the West coast from Newtonmore again today. We drove past Meggy, The Ben and finally parked in Glencoe opposite Stob Coire Nan Lochain, quite a early start and a long drive. It more »
Posted in Glencoe, Scottish Winter Climbing, mixed climbing
Tagged Original Route, Scabbered Chimney
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Ben Nevis–Coire Na Ciste Ice climbing
Another fine day on Ben Nevis yesterday. I climbed with Matt and Adam which made for good banter on the belays and a nice light rucksack as everything was shared out a bit more. We headed up into Coire Na more »
Original Summer Route and Pygmy Ridge
Had another blue sky day in Scotland, this time back into Sneachda with Matt to check out a couple of work routes for future reference. There was a surprising amount of rime on the crags meaning a lot of the more »
Posted in Cairngorms, Scottish Winter Climbing, mixed climbing
Tagged Original Summer Route, Pygmy Ridge.
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Ice Climbing on the Ben.
Back in my temporary home of Newtonmore after two good days on the Ben. The conditions after the thaw were interesting, lots of snow has been striped away but what is left has frozen hard into some fine neve meaning more »
Posted in Ben Nevis, Ice Climbing, Scottish Winter Climbing
Tagged conditions report, Green Gully, Indicator Wall
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