Mike climbing on the Fiacaill Ridge Mike, Gwyd, Graham and I had a weekend in the Northern Corries looking at preparation for an alpine climbing trip. We looked at scrambling skills on easy and moderate ground and rope systems for climbing in a two and a three, and also ways to abseil down things! […]
Read more "Alpine Training"A bit damp and mild this week – some (mobile phone) photos from skiing in Glen Shee and climbing in the Northern Corries. Some forecasts seem to suggest a mild, and damp weekend ahead – but models I’ve been looking at seem to suggest it getting colder. Who knows! Thaw/Freeze will be building ice nicely […]
Read more "Feb hols"Adrian, Grant and I spent a weekend looking at mountaineering skills. On saturday, we visited Coira an t’Sneachda in the Northern Corries and climbed a line to the left of Alladin’s Colouir. This gave several pitches of snow, mixed and some good ice higher up. We topped out and looked at climibng on ice on […]
Read more "Northern Corries and Dunkeld"Andrew and Rich were in the Northen Corries today and climbed Alladin’s Couloir. Andrew reports “A mild day, but a decent, stable snow pack with good ice in places. The corrie had plenty of folk out and about with ice and plenty of frost on the buttresses.”
Read more "Northern Corries"Cracking weekend with Jerome and Adrian in the Northern Corries on a winter climbing course for EICA:Ratho. Dry with bone hard neve and ice in places. We avoided the crowds in a blue-sky day on saturday by climbing a line to the right of No.4 buttress in Coire an Lochan. This gave a good, long […]
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