Winter Mountaineering
Some photos from the Winter Mountaineering course ran at Firbush Outdoor Centre. Plenty of snow on the Ben Lawers range.
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Winter Training Day
Up on Meall Tarmachan again, this time with the Firbush Centre’s staff preparing for the winter season with some staff training. We managed to get the best of the day and had a stunning afternoon revising movement skills coaching for winter mountaineering and walk; and talking over digital mapping, route planning and going over […]
Read more "Winter Training Day"Wintery weather on the way – Medium range weather forecasts
Most medium range weather forecasts seem to be predicting a cold spell coming up – which is great news for climbers and skiers, especially when we think back to last winter which was typified by dumps of snow followed by large temperature swings and then rapid thaws. There is plenty of snow above 850m at the […]
Read more "Wintery weather on the way – Medium range weather forecasts"Breezy Cairngorms Climbing
I’ve been working for Summit Ascent this weekend. On bright but breezy Saturday, Dave, Mel and I headed up to Coire na Ciste in the Northern Caringorms. Mel and Dave had never been out in winter before, never winter climbed, nor donned crampons, so we had a wander to find some hard, scoured snow […]
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Going through my cupboard yesterday to make some room, I had all my ice-axes in the same place at the same time, so here is rather self-indulgent post about my ice axes! My first pair of axes was a Mountain Technology “Technical Hammer” coupled with a Stubai “Mountain Star”. I’ve no idea where the Mountain […]
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