Fastcastle Sea Cliffs

Barry and I had a cracking evening down at the Fastcatle Sea cliffs. We climbed the East Arete at Fastcastle Head. Graded severe in the guidebook, the adventerous feel of the crag gives you an experience in excess of the grade. The crag could do with a lot more traffic – we looked at the […]

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Fast Castle Sea Cliffs

Richard, Campbell and I had a stunning day today on the EICA Ratho  sea cliff climbing course. A beautiful, sunny day in amazing surrounds at Fast Castle Head down in Berwickshire.   We climbed on Fast Castle Head itself after an entertaining abseil down to the shore, then an exciting sea-level traverse to get to […]

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Abandoned climbing

Andrew, Lee and I went to the Fast Castle Sea cliffs yesteday to try and have an afternoon’s climbing. However the weather was really against us – very heavy, thundery showers at times made the yellow lichen that covered the rock frictionless. We had a go at a very wet and slimey East Arete, but […]

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