A video made by Alex Harrison who took part on one of our 5 day winter mountaineering courses. I don’t remember the spindrift to look this pleasant though. Maybe I was too busy looking at my feet when I walked, especially coming out of the Coire An T-Sneachda boulder field.Read More
This weekend was the last winter course we have run and I’m proud to say that we have introduced 53 people to winter mountaineering. It has been a challenging winter from the start. There wasn’t a lot of snow to start with in January and as much as fell in February it was just skin deep and fizzled away in a few days of rain and high temperatures. From mid-February,...Read More
We are always trying to improve what we offer on equipment and have only the highest quality kit. So we bought a few new bits of equipment for the new Summer season. Some of the new kit are a MSR Hubba Hubba NX tent. That would be in addition to our already existing MSR Access 2 and MSR Remote 2 tents. We also replaced all Therm A Rest All Season...Read More
After a 1 month absence of Winter with inversions and two figure temperatures on summits we seem to have winter back. The snow cover has recovered and it all looks and feels very wintry. The Winter skills course this weekend was pretty good with 2 people on it so we could get through the skills pretty well. On Sunday we had very poor visibility from late morning and the wind...Read More
This was long due for me. I joined an avalanche awareness course, which was organised by the Chris Walker Memorial Trust. What a great course. In the morning we had a look at the theory of avalanches and some interesting statistics. in the afternoon we headed up to Coire an Lochain and made a large snow pit to look at different layers. Even considering the mild conditions we had in...Read More
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