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Double training

Keywords:
steep snow, play, John, sociable as Adam, Coire nan Tulach, nice morning forecast, people on steep snow, share ideas, share ideas about ways, indoor combination

Today was a perfect for the outdoor and indoor combination. With a nice morning forecast, John, Johnny and I headed up into Glencoe to have a play around on some of the steep snow slopes within Coire nan Tulach. The aim of the day was to workshop our short roping skills and share ideas about ways of looking after people on steep snow. We played around with various techniques looking at the pro's and con's, discussed when each technique is best applied under different conditions. We looked at ascending and

published: 4 months ago | downloaded: 4 months ago | 83 views

Confidence de-training

from Online Climbing Coach

Keywords:
rain, outdoors, big mats destroys, indoor training regime, Confidence de-training, Lochaber deluge, poor landings, two months yesterday, months yesterday, retraining

I went bouldering outdoors for the first time in two months yesterday. Lochaber deluge enforced indoor training regime. I was shocked at how tentative I was and worried about bad landings after so long falling onto big friendly climbing wall mats. Note to self, and anyone else in the same situation: Too much time above big mats destroys your boldness and ability to fall properly outdoors on poor landings. Not much you can do about this other than be aware of it and take care to give some time to retraining

published: 4 months ago | downloaded: 4 months ago | 44 views

Aberdeen city break

from Dave MacLeod Climbing

Keywords:
Aberdeen, Clashfarqhuar, Hand, start, finish, Frieda in Aberdeen, psyched climber a lifeline, tide window, training on plastic, wee cave

I can’t believe 2 months had passed without climbing outdoors on rock in Scotland. I can’t remember the weather being so unhelpful during the winter for several years. Lochaber has just been hammered with rain and gales and it seems my options for getting on projects have been basically nil. No matter, all the training on plastic has been worth it. But severe withdrawal symptoms from climbing a real piece of rock set in and so I took a gamble and drove over to the Aberdeen sea cliffs in the hope of ...

published: 4 months ago | downloaded: 4 months ago | 68 views

East ridge of Beinn a' Chaorainn

from Guy Steven - Mountain Leader

Keywords:
Al, Katy, Point 1044, East ridge of Beinn, East ridge, Beinn, rain, Beinn a' Chorainn, mild up in Scotland, signs of old ice

Pretty wet and mild up in Scotland today, freezing level was above the summits and the rain just kept on coming! Katy and I opted for a nice ridge where we could keep moving without any difficulties but kept some interest. I had wanted to do the East ridge of Beinn a' Chorainn after Al had mentioned it to me a while back. Good fun for a foul day like today. The snow pack was saturated all the way through to the ground, there were some signs of old ice around but everything was pretty mushy. A few small ...

published: 4 months ago | downloaded: 4 months ago | 73 views

Plastic power

from Dave MacLeod Climbing

Keywords:
rain, training, gales, long term weaknesses, mountain of fantastic problems, piece of real rock, shortage of leaps, three of serious work, climbing attentions, fantastic TCA bouldering centre

With Scotland being hammered by the usual January gales and rain, I’ve been directing my climbing attentions over Christmas to a sustained attack on the fantastic TCA bouldering centre in Glasgow. I climbed a mountain of fantastic problems and definitely feel stronger for it, especially on big moves. There’s a lot of climbing space there and there are no shortage of leaps and jumps between the holds (some performance related comments on this over on my other blog ). An uninterrupted spell of good ...

published: 4 months ago | downloaded: 4 months ago | 57 views

Lochnagar

from SAIS Southern Cairngorms

Keywords:
crag although some ice, Glen Muick 56 cars, high avalanche hazard cycle, black buttresses, cars, rain, crag, ice, Lochnagar. Busy parking

Busy parking at Glen Muick 56 cars. Not so busy on the crag although some ice developing. Rather fear black buttresses for new year after the rain and high avalanche hazard cycle.

published: 4 months ago | downloaded: 4 months ago | 8 views

Not a fine day on Ben Nevis.

from SAIS Lochaber

Keywords:
precipitation, fair bit, snow, bit colder tomorrow, optimistic folk, snow level, middle of the picture, plenty of precipitation today, rain rather than snow, band rock

Two optimistic folk heading up towards Observatory Gully in some less that perfect conditions today. Looking up towards Carn Dearg Buttress in some not very pleasant conditions. If you look carefully you can see the streams being blown back up over the band rock in the middle of the picture. As predicted there was plenty of precipitation today. Unfortunately it was not as cold as expected, and a fair bit of that precipitation fell as rain rather than snow. After a mild night, it did snow down to about 700

published: 5 months ago | downloaded: 5 months ago | 21 views

First Blood

from Ian Parnell Photography

Keywords:
Greg, rain, back in on Fast, E2 Jumping Jupiter, James Dunn, neighbouring Time Traveller, 2 stars, Birnam, climbing magazine editor, Greg's cave

Recently my job as a climbing magazine editor has been particularly frustrating. Despite a rather late start to the winter season it seemed everyone was making up for lost time with a string of very tough sounding new routes and repeats of several of last years hardest routes. Finally just before Christmas I was able to stop reading about everyone else's fun and get some action myself. I hooked up with Greg Boswell and James Dunn hoping for a few days high standard adventure, unfortunately as soon as I ...

published: 5 months ago | downloaded: 5 months ago | 36 views

2011-12-24 15:56:00

from SAIS Northern Cairngorms

Keywords:
Coire, day home, good test day, 108mph over the summits, nice new jackets, summits around midday, Coire an Lochain Coire, Lochain Coire an t-Sneachda, Lochain Coire, dusting of new snow

Coire an Lochain Coire an t-Sneachda. The dusting of new snow soon melted as the freezing level rose to above the summits around midday. Thanks Mountain Equipment for our nice new jackets I ended the day home and dry. It was a good test day for them in the strong winds and rain (gusts of 108mph over the summits).

published: 5 months ago | downloaded: 5 months ago | 22 views

2011-12-24 15:16:00