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    • Pick Breaker Coire Kander
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    • Blistering Heat in El Chorro
    • Amethyst Pillar and Grey Slab
    • Halcyon Days on Haegefjell
    • Scottish Winter Greatest Hits
    • Cragging in Ardnamurchan
    • Hammer, Etive Slabs
    • Slochd Wall, Beinn a’ Bhuird
    • Hadrian’s Wall Direct, Ben Nevis
    • An Ice Surprise, Lurcher’s Crag
    • Judas Priest, Lochnagar
    • Dinosaur Pink Elephant, Creag an Dubh Loch
    • The Pause, Etive Slabs
    • Dubh Loch Monster, Creag an Dubh Loch
    • Sudgrat, Salbitschijen
    • Gripped for days in Rjukan
    • The Hoarmaster and The Message
    • Parallel Gully A, Lochnagar
    • King Rat, Creag an Dubh Loch
    • No. 6 Gully, Aonach Dubh
    • Deep Cut Chimney, Hell’s Lum
    • K9 and Window Gully, Lurcher’s Crag
    • Coronary Bypass, Coire an Lochain
    • Transept Groove, Lochnagar
    • Gorges du Verdon
    • The Sandpyper Direct, Stag Rocks
    • The Needle and The Pause
    • Winter-lite on Liathach and Beinn Bhan
    • Pygmy Ridge and Ewen Buttress
    • Dolomiti Super Summer
    • Costa del Diabaig
    • Ticks in the Glen, Polldubh Crags
    • Paradise in Patagonia
    • Sunny Curved Ridge, Icy White Line
    • West Buttress and George, Torridon
    • Centrist, Lochnagar
    • Savage Slit and Sidewinder, Lochain
    • Cyclops, Creag an Dubh Loch
    • Chamonix 2015 Trip Report
    • Pas de Friction in Font
    • Dividing Butress, Beinn a’Bhuird
    • Spartan Slab and Butterknife
    • Alpine on An Teallach
    • Winter Sun in Fontainebleau
    • Classic Ice on Ben Nevis
    • The Drool, Eagles Rock
    • Shadow Buttress B, Bells Route, Lochnagar
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Yearly Archives: 2023

Blistering Heat in El Chorro

27 Nov
A climber sport climbing on the fifth pitch of a route called Amptrax on a limestone cliff in southern Spain with blue sky above and green trees below

It’s always nice to prolong the summer with a last gasp of warm sun and dry rock before the winter really gets going in Scotland. This time the chosen venue was the sport climbing paradise of El Chorro, in the … Read More »

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A Gem of a Day on Amethyst Pillar and Grey Slab

16 Jun
Looking down at a climber on the crux second pitch of the rock climb called Grey Slab in Coire Sputan Dearg in the Cairngorms in sunny weather

With such superb weather and dry conditions across the Highlands, it would have been a travesty not to make the most of the opportunity and get into somewhere wild and remote. Andy and I both fancied a wee jaunt into … Read More »

Scottish Summer, Trad 2 Comments

Halcyon Days on Haegefjell

4 Jun
A climber on the second proper pitch of Haegar

Many a time Ric had waxed lyrical about a mystical land where unbroken granite slabs sweep 500m into the sky. He enthused about immaculate rock quality, pure friction moves and spicy bolt-spacing. He also mentioned unfinished business, so it was … Read More »

Alpinism, Trad, Trips Leave a comment

Scottish Winter Greatest Hits

31 Mar
scottish winter ice climbing the drool eagles rock

Sometimes it’s good to indulge in a bit of reminiscing, particularly so when Scottish winter climbing adventures can leave such a profound impression. Below I’ve gathered my favourite images form recent winters and accompanied each with a short vignette. Every … Read More »

Ice, Photography, Scottish Winter 1 Comment

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    Dave on A Gem of a Day on Amethyst Pillar and Grey Slab

    Thanks Iain, yeah it's a really long way in, totally worth it though. Definitely get Amethyst Pillar done! Cheers, Dave

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    Iain Clark on A Gem of a Day on Amethyst Pillar and Grey Slab

    I did Grey slab in the eighties, a long approach, I still remember a difficult approach across snow to reach…

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    Adam on Introduction

    It was nice to meet you both in Norway, if either of you ever need a belay in the South…

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    Alasdair Fulton on Scottish Winter Greatest Hits

    Hi, good read - thanks for putting the effort in! Would it be possible to get a full-res copy of…

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    Dave on Beating the Heat on Slochd Wall, Beinn a’ Bhuird

    Wow!

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