Local Scottish sport climbing crag

Unfortunately the rock is conglomerate which is basically pebbles and rocks cemented into an ancient matrix of  hard mud!!!
OK sounds crap but after the first few routes trying not to pull the holds off and being suspicious of the bolts it's still a bit loose YET surprisingly good!
I'm still not convinced by some of the bolts and lowers YET!
Eventually we actually started to enjoy the last few routes and will be returning soon along with the rest of the Highland's 'Darby and Joan' Club and the odd 40 plus whippersnapper!!!

One of the routes felt very similar to some of the trad limestone routes in the Costa Blanca that we will be climbing in Spain this November.
This leads onto a November and Hot Rock courses cheap villa double room plug, yes we have places ;-)

New videos from the Alps 2011

Public Facebook Photo Album links!

 

Alps 2011 - Misc - Album

There must shurely be an easier way to integrate ALL the Facebook photo albums into blogger but if you now click on the photos you can view the related photo album!!!

I'll backdate some of the blog pages with info images and links to the relevant photo albums later.

Pouce - Aguille Rouge - Album

High Camp - Vallee Blanche - Album

 l'Ete Indienne - Album

Enver Slabs - Vingt Mille Lieus Sous la Neige - Album

Red Pillar - Blaitiere - Nabot Leon - Album

Contamine Grisolle Album

Contamine Mazeaud Album

Chere Couloir Album

Serac Gully Album

Aguille du Midi Sud - Voie Contamine - Album

 Pic Adolphe Rey - Voie Saluard - Album

Roi de Siam - Petite Capucin -Album

Back Home!

We're now back from a fantastic three months in the the Alps. So busy catching up on mail, admin and sorting out 40 Gb of photos and video.

Apologies to anyone that has sent and email or left messages on our answer-machine as both the phone and the email inboxes were full and another power cut deleted all the messages on the reset answermachine :-(

The email auto-replies are now off and the email inbox should now have space for more!!
With a forecast for an even colder winter than last, our winter courses are filling up fast with several dates now fully booked by new and returning clients.

Still plenty of winter dates still avaiable though the remaining booking are now being taken for our November 2011 Hot Rock dates.

A few landscape photos from the Chamonix Mont Blanc area can be seen here along with the more comprehensive climbing trip albums at http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150316360274883.364316.727554882#!/media/albums/?id=727554882

Let me know if you can see the above Facebook link as it may not be public!

A number of YouTube and Vimeo videos will be uploaded onto Ron's video channels soon!!

Enjoy we certainly did :-)

Cheers Ron and Fi