After a good nights sleep in the car near Pitlochry, and fortified by bacon sandwiches in Aviemore we arrived in Lochinver for a two day assault on Suilven, a mere 731m Graham in the north west highlands.
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For the first time in years we drove to the Alps. No more paring the gear down to the Easyjet 20 kg. limit. Just throw it all in! After a day and a half of driving we arrived in the Zinal Valley. A five hour walk trough thunder, lightening and rain to the hut was
Jon Massey was heard to pass the above comment after a second day of good weather in Wales. We drove to the foot of Tryfan on the Saturday morning and after slogging up to Heather Terrace proceeded to make a start on Second Pinnacle Rib. However some twenty feet up I was most unhappy. The
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Early last Saturday Ian Archer and I headed south down the M5 bound for the Brecon Beacons intent on climbing a winter route on Pen Y Fan. The are five gully climbs between grade 1 and 3 and a rib at grade 2. An hour and a half of sweat and toil brought me to
Saturday 28th January On the Friday evening inspired by a reasonable forecast Alan Hardie, Jon Massey and Iain Carter headed up over the border for a weekend raid in Glencoe. We slept inside and outside the car at Loch Lomond and after a good four hours sleep continued onwards arriving at eight. The objective was
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On January 2nd, Karl, Tom and Sarah L walked up into Stob Coire nan Lochan above Glen Coe to see if we could get some winter climbing done. It had snowed to quite a low level over night, and as we got into the corrie we were wading through two foot drifts, an indication as to just
