Poor viz but a good days winter climbing!

A wee pre-Christmas and birthday climb today! Not great viz and more precipitation than expected with a freezing level higher than a couple of days ago but still excellent hero snow ice climbing conditions on some routes. 

Nice to bump into George also enjoying the early season climbing conditions and to follow in Andy and Jonathan's footsteps on Wavelength!

A short video on Facebook showing how good the snow was here >>

Still plenty of availability on our 2019 winter skills courses!

New Year Winter Skills bookings

With snow falling in the Scottish mountains and the recent winter climbing action it's time to think about practising the essential Winter Skills as we head into Xmas and the New Year.

We only have a couple of places left on our New Year Winter Skills course starting on the 3rd January 2019 so if thinking of a course, make sure you book your place soon!

Places can be booked direct online here.

A stunning start to the winter season

A stunning start to the winter season and a chance to check out the snow cover on our local hills for winter skills, climbing and skiing - cover is surprisingly good :-)

We have also recently updated our website with our Scottish winter skills and winter mountaineering course dates for 2019 and these can be booked direct from the website.

We're running a few winter skills weekends in early December as well as Christmas and New Year winter skills and winter mountaineering courses.

If the dates or standard winter courses don't suit or for winter climbing we can easily organise private guiding and instruction at a date to suit.

Christmas and New Year 2019 Winter Skills course dates

Now the snow has arrived in the Scottish mountains a quick heads up to say that the winter skills course date calendar for 2018-2019 can be viewed and booked online via our website at https://www.talisman-activities.co.uk/dates

Christmas Activity Gift Vouchers

Looking for that special Christmas 2015/2016 gift?
We offer a range of Xmas gift vouchers that can be redeemed towards the cost of a day's guiding, winter skills, mountaineering or climbing course.

Christmas Winter Mountaineering course 27-31 Dec 2014

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Trek & Mountain magazine winter mountaineering article!

A nice surprise - Fi's just received an email from Carron saying that our advanced Winter Mountaineering course get a mention in the latest issue 23 of Trek & Mountain magazine. 

A PDF of Scottish Winter Skills article can now be viewed  here (3.31 Mb).

We're running several of these courses throughout the winter season into Easter 2012 including this Christmas and New Year.

We still have a couple of places available on the 27th-31st December 2011 and on the 2nd-6th January 2012 as well as places on the five day intro Winter Skills courses.