Posts for category: Cairngorms

Going East Worked Today

  Jagged Globe – Winter Mountaineering Course Today we headed East to the Cairngorms. Mark H was teaching lead climbing on the Twin Ribs, Tony H was teaching on Jacob’s Right Edge. I spent the whole time trying to avoid queues! There seemed to be a queue at the base of every pitch on the […]...

Afterthought Arete

                    Today was the last day of the MC of S Scrambling weekend based out of Mill Cottage in Feshiebridge. I was again with Nathalie and Carla. After the success of yesterday and a morning chat we decided to walk over to Stag Rocks and do […]...

MCofS Scrambling Weekend

                    This weekend I’m working for Heather Mourning on a Mountaineering Council of Scotland Scrambling weekend course. Today, with Nathalie (from Canary Islands) and Carla (from Madrid, Spain) I headed into Coire an t-Sneachda. We introduced scrambling on the Twin Ribs and then moved onto the […]...

Coire an t-Sneachda, Twin Ribs, Dry

                    Today Gustav and Sara were keen to see a different mountain area, and also keen to have some fine weather, so we headed off to Coire an t- Sneachda, and Twin Ribs. I didn’t know how much snow there would be, but was pleased to […]...

Pippet Slab

                  On Wednesday I was with Moffett and Ally who were keen to do another climb in the hills, so we headed off to the Northern Corries. This time we walked over to Stac an Fharaidh to do Pippet Slab (S***), which looked really good in the […]...

Pot Of Gold

                    On Monday this week, we started the 3 days of ‘exped phase’ with the group at ATC Scotland, who completed their RSF (Single pitch rock climbing foundation) course on Saturday. The 10 soldiers were split into 3 teams of 2 and a team of 4, […]...

Magic Crack

                    On Tuesday this week, Lena and I walked into Coire an t-Sneachda to climb Magic Crack (HVS***). I’d climbed it before with Ken (March 2012), but this was my chance to lead the main pitch. The weather looked much more promising than on the Monday. […]...

Savage Slit After Rain

                    Last Monday Lena and I wanted to make the best of possible dry weather. We drove over to the Northern Corries in the Cairngorms and walked into Coire an Lochain to climb Savage Slit and the VS climbs there-abouts. The forecast was for ‘possible passing […]...

Afterthought Arete With Gurkhas

                    Last Monday I joined the staff team (Matt and Dusty) at ATC Scotland, to support their final phase of their 2 week climbing course. There had already been a lot of drop outs from the original course line up, due to injuries, but there were […]...

Gold D Of E – Cairngorms

                  On 7th July I met up with the Norwich School staff team at the Cairngorm Lodge, Led by Bevin Mack, ready to set their 4 Gold D of E teams off on their exped on the 8th. The other freelancer working with the team was Sam […]...

Afterthought Arete

                    On Thursday I was working at Norwegian Lodge for ATC Scotland (Adventure training Centre, Scotland), alongside Graham with 4 Soldiers. Afterthought Arete on Stag Rocks was our objective for the day. The day turned out to have stunning weather – very warm, and incredible visibility. […]...