By Baptiste P We spent the first weekend of April (4-6th) at Mill Cottage in Feshiebridge for the LMC Cairngorms meet. The weather was dry and sunny, with a cool breeze at times, making for good climbing and walking conditions. Everyone was keen to make the most of it. On Saturday, several teams headed off early for big days out. Baptiste, Davide, and Cat went to Binnein Shuas to climb Ardverikie Wall (HS 4b), a …
Written by John Cunningham. An optimistic snow emoji sat on the CIC Winter meets chat title which unfortunately did not meet emoji expectations. After a second turbo thaw without consolidation the Winter season seemed bleak but did not falter an 8 Lomonder strong meet to the CIC. A typical “rack’n’rope” became “rack’n’roast” with a team promise that despite little to no snow we would have a beef roast joint for morale. Whether this multiple kilogram …
Written by Ewan Getty. Participants: Ewan, Davide, Heather, Tom, Amber and Florian. Our winter skills weekend began on Friday 14th of February, where we were staying at an Air BnB apartment in Kincraig, near Aviemore. Arriving at night we all got settled in, put on a fire and got prepared for our first day of the course, beginning at 8.30am the next morning. Gary Hodgson, of Tarmachan Mountaineering, was our instructor for our 2-day winter …
Written by Christabel Goode. On a very cold (-5 °C) January morning, a group of sun-starved climbers got up before dawn to seek out dry rock and sunshine. The first climbing destination for the group was Sierra de Toix, an “impressive ridge that juts out into the sea”, where they spent a very hot (22 °C) and sunny afternoon getting used to the rock and remembering what sport climbing is. Day two of the holiday …
