Posts for category: Cairngorms
Going East Worked Today
Posted by Max Hunter on 28th January, 2016
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
Posted by Max Hunter on 18th October, 2015
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
Posted by Max Hunter on 17th October, 2015
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
Posted by Max Hunter on 06th December, 2014
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
Posted by Max Hunter on 05th September, 2014
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
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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
Posted by Max Hunter on 08th August, 2014
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
Posted by Max Hunter on 07th August, 2014
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
Posted by Max Hunter on 18th July, 2014
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
Posted by Max Hunter on 17th July, 2014
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
Posted by Max Hunter on 14th June, 2014
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. […]...