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rucksack
16
Mar
16th March 2017

Changes for the 2017 Season

At Unexplored Scotland we already provide some great Tours and courses in the Highlands of Scotland. We already provide more and better quality kit to our clients than most other outdoor providers out there. For this year we made some small changes to our kit list. Mountaineering Rucksacks In past years it was our clients’...
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snowshoes
15
Feb
15th February 2017

Extreme Snowshoeing?

After some of my friends have always been raving over using snowshoes I decided to try them out myself and got myself some top of the range MSR Lighning Ascent snowshoes. Last week some of the snow was pretty fresh and soft and on the way out from Easy Gully in Coire na Ciste it...
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Summit pose on Ben Nevis
13
Feb
13th February 2017

First Ben Nevis Winter Camping

We had our first Ben Nevis Winter Camping trip last week on 9-10 February. I had the idea to run this trip last year to offer something different for my clients. Something that is more of an achievement than just walking up the highest hill in Scotland. In the past I have run several winter...
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06
Feb
6th February 2017

At last Winter has arrived!

This winter has been a bit slow to pick up and snow has developed very slowly… if at all. The reason is some strange weather patterns we had since December 2016. What we need to get a good winter in the mountains is a good dump of snow, followed by sub zero temperatures in the...
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Spindrift Cairngorm
04
Feb
4th February 2017

First Real Wintry Day of the Season

First weekend with real wintry conditions near Cairn Gorm summit. But only high up from about 900m. Very mild below.
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misty sea kayaking
22
Aug
22nd August 2016

Misty Paddle

Last week was another one of those weird weather conditions you have along the Scottish seashore. Best know here as the sea haar. You usually get it at the east coast when warm air is moving over the cold North Sea but even at the west coast you can have some haar when it is...
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22
Aug
22nd August 2016

Moving an Off-Centre Sea Kayak Skeg

For years I had great Island Kayak Expedition kayaks for my clients which are pretty easy to load and are stable even for people who have been trying kayaking for the first time. The only real disadvantage with these kayaks were the off-centre skegs. They have been introduced so that the loading of large long...
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14
May
14th May 2016

New Camping Kit for 2016

Unexplored Scotland has managed to strike a deal with Cascade Designs, who are best known for making revolutionary MSR stoves and Therm-a-Rest Sleeping mats. We have therefore replaced all out tent with MSR Fury 4 season mountain tents, which are highly durable, withstand any weather it gets thrown at in Scotland and has plenty of...
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30
Mar
30th March 2016

The Great Outdoors

Unexplored Scotland has been featured at the March 2016 edition of The Great Outdoors Magazine. This hasn't been the first time that we have given the magazine some expert advise. This time it has been a feature they have used for the first time called "My Gear". It it I have given the TGO a...
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Winter skills course- avalanche awareness
29
Mar
29th March 2016

Winter Skills Course 26-27 March 2016

The weather for the weekend didn't look very promising with a lot of (up to 100mph on Cairngorm summit forecast for the evening) and heavy rain. After we met at in Aviemore and sorted out the equipment we headed up to the Cairngorm car park. There it became very quickly clear that we would get...
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