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1st February 20240

Food and Drink when Winter Mountaineering

Over the years I have seen and used many different types of food while in the hills in winter. Some worked well and some food like sandwiches I have just carried around and wasn’t able to eat because of the weather. Here is a list of a few things that always work even if the weather is not working in your favour. Drinks I would always have a thermos flask...
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13th December 20230

New member of the Team

Sastrugi is the newest member of the Unexplored Scotland team. She is a young Alaskan Malador (Malamute/Labrador cross). She loves making new friends and playing in the snow and with her many toys. To start with she will fill the role of snow specialist on our winter skills courses. I hope that everyone on our courses will be as excited to meet her as she is to be part of...
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13th December 20230

Start of Avalanche Service 2023/24

The avalanche service for winter 2023/24 has now started. The first human-triggered avalanche for the season has already been reported last week. Fortunately, there have been no victims on this occasion. For more information on the avalanche service follow the link below. Home
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22nd February 20230

Winter is Back

There has been plenty of snow early in the season (December to mid-January), which created a good base for any winter sport. Unfortunately, in the last 3 weeks there hasn’t been much new snow but what snow there is available is actually excellent snow. This meant that I was always able to run a good quality course. Fortunately, we had another good dump of snow while I spent a night...
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17th February 20230

Still Some Winter Around

After an excellent start to the season in mid-December with a lot of snow and extensive periods of sub-zero temperatures we started having an unseasonable mild period from mid-January. The bad news is that a lot of the cosmetic snow has fizzled away in the last few weeks. The good news is that there is still plenty of snow about, to run a quality winter skills course and even to...
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