Long Weekend in the Highlands
After a good nights sleep in the car near Pitlochry, and fortified by bacon sandwiches in Aviemore we arrived in Lochinver for a two day assault on Suilven, a mere 731m Graham in the north west highlands.
ALPS 2012
For the first time in years we drove to the Alps. No more paring the gear down to the Easyjet 20 kg. limit. Just throw it all in! After a day and a half of driving we arrived in the Zinal Valley. A five hour walk trough thunder, lightening and rain to the hut was …
” Basically it was awesome ! “
Jon Massey was heard to pass the above comment after a second day of good weather in Wales. We drove to the foot of Tryfan on the Saturday morning and after slogging up to Heather Terrace proceeded to make a start on Second Pinnacle Rib. However some twenty feet up I was most unhappy. The …
Pen Y Fan
Early last Saturday Ian Archer and I headed south down the M5 bound for the Brecon Beacons intent on climbing a winter route on Pen Y Fan. The are five gully climbs between grade 1 and 3 and a rib at grade 2. An hour and a half of sweat and toil brought me to …
Summit Gully, Stob Coire nam Beith
Saturday 28th January On the Friday evening inspired by a reasonable forecast Alan Hardie, Jon Massey and Iain Carter headed up over the border for a weekend raid in Glencoe. We slept inside and outside the car at Loch Lomond and after a good four hours sleep continued onwards arriving at eight. The objective was …
Dorsal Arete
On January 2nd, Karl, Tom and Sarah L walked up into Stob Coire nan Lochan above Glen Coe to see if we could get some winter climbing done. It had snowed to quite a low level over night, and as we got into the corrie we were wading through two foot drifts, an indication as to just …