Posts for category: Jagged Globe – Winter Mountaineering
Green Gully
Posted by Max Hunter on 19th March, 2016
Jagged Globe – last day of 2016 Winter Season Yesterday was the last day of the Jagged Globe winter season. Tim and Sam were leading on the Douglas Boulder traverse, and Graham and Alasdair climbed Green Gully. The hot weather continued to bring hazards – cornice collapses and ice/rocks falling off from cliffs in […]...
Winter Mountaineering
Posted by Max Hunter on
Jagged Globe. Winter Mountaineering. The Winter Mountaineering team was Graham, Alasdair, Tim and Sam this week. We were blessed with the high pressure firmly in control over Scotland, and so we had high temperatures and clear skies. This did however mean that the snow and ice was melting fast, and Spring was approaching faster! […]...
Dorsal Arete etc
Posted by Max Hunter on 06th February, 2016
Jagged Globe – Winter Mountaineering Course The first photo above is from Alex Ekins – alexekins.co.uk , Follow him here on Twitter – @alexekins. The photo was taken about 2 weeks ago. The second photo is from Graeme Hunter, when he was on Dorsal […]...
Twisting + Dorsal
Posted by Max Hunter on 17th March, 2015
The Jagged Globe Winter Mountaineering course finished last week (13th) with the best day of the week. Chris and Davey were keen (understatement) to get out and to do something fun. Ledge Route was their first winter graded route, but they were keen to try […]...
Winter Mountaineering – Poor Weather
Posted by Max Hunter on
On Wednesday (11th) we had pretty bad weather. It was the second day of the week we had wind gusts of over 100mph forecast. We chose to go to Coire nan Lochan in the rain to finish going over snow anchors and associated ropework. On […]...
Winter Mountaineering 9th + 10th
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Last week on the Sunday I met Peter, Chris and Davey – ready for their Jagged Globe Winter Mountaineering course. It was set to be a difficult […]...
Winter Mountaineering Last Week
Posted by Max Hunter on 23rd February, 2015
Last week I was working for Jagged Globe on a 5 day Winter Mountaineering Course – with 11 clients. On the Monday we went to Aonach Mor for a revision of Winter Skills, and quick look at steep ground and revision of basic ropework including […]...
Ledge Route – Cutting Corners
Posted by Max Hunter on 01st March, 2014
Friday was day 5 of the Jagged Globe Winter Mountaineering Course. I was out with Jennie and Jo for the last time this week. We decided that Ledge Route would be perfect to finish off their course. However they wanted something a little harder than […]...
Busy Dorsal Arete
Posted by Max Hunter on 27th February, 2014
Today was day 4 of the Jagged Globe Winter Mountaineering Course. I was with Jo and Jennie and we headed off to Stob Coire nan Lochan to do Dorsal Arete. We luckily got onto the route first because behind us developed a long line of […]...
Douglas Boulder
Posted by Max Hunter on 26th February, 2014
Today was day 3 of the Winter Mountaineering Course at Jagged Globe. A few of the teams were out on Dorsal Arete, Boomerang Arete, and a team was at the Ice Factor. I was with Jennie and Jo and we headed for the Douglas Boulder […]...
Zig-Zags And Stob Coire Nan Lochan
Posted by Max Hunter on 25th February, 2014
Day 2 of the Jagged Globe Winter Mountaineering course today. I was out with Mariusz, Danny and Jon. We started on the Zig Zags, which was windy at times, but we were shortly at the top of Gearr Aonach. Here we measured winds at a […]...
Winter Mountaineering, Nid Ridge
Posted by Max Hunter on 24th February, 2014
Today was day 1 for the new team on the Jagged Globe Winter Mountaineering course. We headed to Aonach Mor with lots of other teams, and we all shared venues on and around the nid ridge. We revisited lots of winter skills, they had learnt […]...