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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...
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Had a wee wander up towards Coire An T-Sneachda. It is great to see a good snow cover this early in the season. Thinking of recent winters, this would have to be the best start we had in about 8 years. It was pretty hard going because all the snow was still very powdery and...
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Winter has started now and snow is well on its way in the Scottish mountains. Let’s hope this winter season will be great with plenty of snow and some winter fun. Look at our winter skills courses to ensure you are well-prepared for the forthcoming season. We offer courses all the way from early January...
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Unexplored Scotland got a mentioning in the Blue Scotland book by Mollie Hughes. I took her and Rachel Keenan out sea kayaking last year in July and the book has been released in September this year. It’s a fantastic book about using the waters in Scotland for wild swimming, kayaking, paddle boarding and surfing. There...
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The summer of 2022 has seen another busy season for Unexplored Scotland. After a recent move to Spean Bridge we have done more trips in the Fort William area covering Loch Moidart, Arisaig, the Argyll coast and as usual some trips in the Skye area. Just like the Winter, the Summer was a bit on...
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In recent months I have been very busy running winter skills courses. It has been a very busy 3 months with many courses running at full or almost full capacity. By running the courses this year on the west coast I have also covered more areas with more challenging conditions. January and February were pretty...
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Took Mollie Hughes and Rachel Keenan out sea kayaking over the last few days. They are in the process of creating a new book called “Blue Scotland“, which is going to be a guidebook for adventures of wild swimming, paddle boarding and sea kayaking in Scotland. Our aim for the trip was to find some...
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Last weekend would be the first time this winter when I didn’t have to battle into the wind and we even managed to have lunch breaks. On Saturday we went into Coire Ciste and did some of the slipping, tripping and sliding skills, while on Sunday we walked into Coire an t-Sneachda for all the...
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This year winter has been a wee bit slow to arrive but with storm Ciara and the Dennis, it eventually has. The 2 storms were at 2 consecutive weekends in February, which also meant that running a course was rather challenging. On one day we only managed to walk 10 metres from the cars and...
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Last weekend we had some pretty strong winds in the hills, which made the course a little more tricky to run. However, we managed to fit it all in. On Saturday we went up the ski area at Coire Cas and went through all the walking, cutting steps, kicking step, crampons and avalanche awareness bits...
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