Posts for category: Winter Skills
A Lot Of Snow In Glencoe
Posted by Max Hunter on 19th January, 2015
On Thursday last week the conditions were incredibly wet (heavy rain all day) and it was too stormy to get higher, so we covered some of the […]...
Ledge Route – Great Ben Weather
Posted by Max Hunter on 04th May, 2014
On Friday we took a couple of days out of the 5 day Joint Services Rock Climbing Foundation Award, to make the most of the good weather over Friday/Saturday. We split the team of 6 into 2 teams – 2 with Lawrie and 4 with […]...
Perfect Weather To Learn Nav
Posted by Max Hunter on 04th April, 2014
Yesterday was the last day of the Jagged Globe Scottish Winter season. I was out with Jim, who wanted to catch a day at the end of the season to develop his winter mountaineering. After a discussion about where his priorities lay, we decided on […]...
Winter Skills Weekend, Sunday – Mamores
Posted by Max Hunter on 13th March, 2014
All photos with permission from Jamie Bankhead and Glencoe Climbing. On Sunday, Jamie Bankhead was working on day 2 of the Hunter Mountaineering Winter Skills weekend with Christian, Birthe and Chris. Jamie has already put his photos onto his work Facebook page – Glencoe Climbing. […]...
Winter Skills Weekend, Saturday – Ben Nevis
Posted by Max Hunter on
All photos with permission from Jamie Bankhead and Glencoe Climbing. Over the weekend Jamie Bankhead worked on a Winter Skills course for Hunter Mountaineering with Christian, Birthe and Chris. Jamie has already put his photos up on his work facebook page (Glencoe Climbing). This is […]...
Introduction To Winter In Scotland
Posted by Max Hunter on 25th January, 2014
Jagged Globe – Introductory Long Weekend This morning the 8 strong team met with Alex, myself and an observer called Lena, to discuss the long weekend, and look at the weather ahead – and find out what to expect. Basically, today would be okay, Sunday – pretty […]...
Winter Skills Weekend
Posted by Max Hunter on 04th January, 2014
This weekend I am working for InMyElement, and students from the University of Limerick. My six students are on a winter skills / intro mountaineering weekend. We looked at lots of basic winter skills on a journey up to the Nid ridge where we got the ropes out. […]...
Winter Skills And Mountaineering On Ben Nevis
Posted by Max Hunter on 23rd November, 2013
Today I was out with Mark and Gavin (who work in Fort William at All Round Signs). They wanted to learn winter skills as well as start on the road to becoming independent for grade I/II. A tall order for 2 days! However they are fit, learn fast and there was only the two […]...