Posts for category: Jagged Globe – Winter Mountaineering

Green Gully

  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

  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

  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

                    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

                    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

                                                        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

                    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

                    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

                    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

                    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

                    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

                    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 […]...