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I have spent 7 weeks on and off since November at Dhekelia in Cyprus to train soldiers from 1 SCOTS in kayaking. The regiment is currently spending its last few weeks, of a 6 month posting, at Nicosia as part of the UN peacekeepers on the island. As part of their time in Cyprus the soldiers...
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Just a follow up to the recent blog on what to wear when winter mountaineering. It is just as important what you would put inside your rucksack. Rucksack Let’s start with the bag. You should have a larger and sturdier rucksack than what you would use in summer. The recommended size would be between 45...
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Winter Skills Course - Avalanche awareness
Saturday morning started very well with glorious sunshine and no wind. We met up in Aviemore and after introduction got into sorting out the equipment. Crampons set up for the boots and off we drove up to the Cairngorm car park.   The avalanche conditions were quite favourable to. Considerable at Northeast to Southeast slopes...
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Winter Mountaineering Course
It is pretty important to know what to wear when you go walking in the winter mountains in Scotland. You don't want to get cold when you stand around for a few minutes and you don't want to be too warm so you would sweat too easily and therefore cool down more when you rest....
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I'm proud to anounce that Unexplored Scotland has been featured in the March 2015 edition of The Great Outdoors. I was asked for expert advise on climbing Ben Nevis in the winter and about some top tips on what to do. Unexplored Scotland also got mentioned later on about winter walking in the Assynt area....
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There seems to be a new player for climbing equipment on the market. Climbing Technology a company based in Italy has started throwing inexpensive climbing equipment on the market now making the big players almost look silly with their massive inflations. We thought of buying 2 pair of CT Nuptse Semi-Auto Crampons for this season...
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It can be quite handy to have a winter mountaineering repair kit or crampon repair kit. Just imagine you walk along on hard packed nevee snow and suddenly your crampons fall apart. What do you do now? Cry like a baby because you have to cut steps for the rest of the day or pull...
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After years of paddling down river and figuring out what to have in your repair kit I started to get a good ballance (I think) of what you should have with you on the river to sort out most issues. Here are all the bits listed in my kit starting at the top left and...
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Sometimes I get asked what to put in a repair kit. I have messed about with my repair kit for some time now and believe this is about as good a repair kit as anyone would need it. There is probably still some more to put in but I still haven’t found a way to...
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