from Scottish Tooling Series
The first round of the 2011 Scottish Tooling Series was held at the Ice factor in Kinlochleven this weekend and was a sell out Success. 60 competitors along with supporters and staff had a great time on a number of challenging qualification problems including two routes in the Kinlochleven Ice Cave. The event was sponsored by Grivel and [...]
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from Ice Factor Blog
Here at the Ice Factor we're all starting to get psyched for the winter season again - it certainly doesn't feel like summer up here any more, with a bite in the air already and the hills starting to take on the purples and browns of Autumn. With that in mind, here's something you can enjoy with us to get you stoked too... STS Dry Tooling Competition We'll be hosting the first round of this annual competition this year. It isn't just an elite competition (although the 'great and the good' do often join ...
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from Stevie Haston
Two great axes, very robust, different performance. I am totally spoilt for choice at the moment, these make the choice worse. The black one is probably the choice weapon for Scotlands hardest routes and a bit more, basically bombproof, also a great choice for the harder mixed routes in the Alps and beyond. The Orange one is a comp weapon and for the hardest mixed routes. I would still use this in all the more normal situations but some people will find its swing a bit twitchy, it’s really a bit too well
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from Stevie Haston
Just tested this axe, big wow, or rather Big Wow! Light, responsive, magic, very expensive, makes steep ice more pleasurable. Allows you to understand ice more and therefore climb better. You can climb ice rather than smashing it to bits, you use features rather than creating your own ladder of holes. For me it makes ice a little more interesting again, and has rekindled my awareness of what is possible. This axe will easily allow others users to break into a new grade, but beware it doesn’t come with a
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from Kev Shields Climbing
I recently received support for my winter kit from Grivel so this meant a visit to the prosthetics guys at Raigmore Hospital the other week. we had a bit of a discussion on angles etc for the axes and the guys got to work chopping my Quantum Race tools up and I picked up the finished products yesterday. Trying out the mixed version of my prosthetic Today I headed down to the Ice Factor to try out the results. Its really handy having this place local to test these out instead of realising faults while in
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from West Coast Mountain Guides
Can anyone help by commenting on this question below? Hi I'm looking for some advice - I've been on a couple of courses with you and would appreciate the experience you bring to this kind of thing. I use a pair of Grivel Alp Wing axes, they are not state of the art but neither am I. Scottish 4 is about my leading ability but I find myself staggering up things a bit harder every now and then, though not by design. I like the axes so do not want to buy others if I can avoid it - but will if that's what's ...
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