Mountain Blogs
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SNOW FOR EASTER
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Saturday 16th March, fresh snow above 600mIt may well be the 'official
start to Spring' now we are at 21st March. The daffodils are flowing but
that do...
1 week ago
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Betty Allen
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Allen – Elizabeth (Betty), 4th January 2024, peacefully, at Croagh Patrick
Care Home, Donaghadee, formally of Orby Road, Belfast. Beloved wife of the
late ...
2 months ago
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Sognando aurora, Tofana di Rozes: 5 year blogging hiatus - long live the
blog!
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If ever there was a route that embodied the spirit of Fairly Long,
Moderately Hard and Mostly Free, well, damn, this is it!
If you've ever been to the Do...
2 months ago
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Blistering Heat in El Chorro
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It’s always nice to prolong the summer with a last gasp of warm sun and dry
rock before the winter really gets going in Scotland. This time the chosen
ve...
4 months ago
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Awareness of Danger.
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I was reading a forum topic on UKC a few days ago started by Chris Craggs,
the title of the topic is, Awareness of Danger, here is a link In his
opening po...
6 months ago
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Exciting new Fairy Pools developments- FP LUST
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FP LUST- Fairy Pool Luxury Ultimate Speed Tours Is time a bit tight for
that “must do” tick set right at the top of Scotland that doesn’t even have
an ai...
11 months ago
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Recent New Routes
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Away from the cutting edge it has been a relatively quiet season on the new
routes front, but several good mid-grade routes have been climbed. Back in
earl...
1 year ago
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Scottish Winter Climbs West
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Winter
Don’t you love it?
The bleary eyed start?
The sweaty walk in, pack tugging (should have done more Autumn hill
walking)?
The first sight of the...
1 year ago
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Paddling around Islay
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Sea kayaking during the first week in May (2022) with good friends. We took
five days to circumnavigate Islay, one of many […]
The post Paddling around I...
1 year ago
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Guiding ratios in the mountains, what it really means for you, as a
customer.
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How many people can a guide/instructor/leader look after safely whilst in
mountaineering terrain? What do I mean by mountaineering terrain? Scrambles
and...
2 years ago
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North Wales Weekend
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Over the weekend the ClimbNow team had a meet up with some old friends in
North Wales. On Saturday Euan and Paul visited Craig LLoer with Tina, Scott
and S...
2 years ago
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New website - go to www.gomountaingoats.com
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New website - go to www.gomountaingoats.com
2 years ago
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James Thacker Mountaineering becomes Mountain Assurance Ltd
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Thanks to everybody who has followed James Thacker Mountaineering and the
blog over the years. JTM has now become Mountain Assurance Ltd and my new
site ...
2 years ago
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Some More Snow Ponderings
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Exploring the snow tunnels on Ben Nevis during August.
After neglecting my blog for the last eight months or so I feel inspired to
get back to it. During...
3 years ago
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This blog has moved
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This blog has moved. After redesigning my website in June 2019 I have moved
my blogs to:
https://www.davemacleod.com/blog
I'll leave the archive of post...
4 years ago
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Synergy Guides
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Vertical Fever is no longer – come visit our new site
here: https://synergyguides.com/
5 years ago
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Laying some demons to rest
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Sat in the passenger seat of Tony’s car, I asked him the geeky question of
what was his favourite route of the trip. He then bounced the same question
bac...
5 years ago
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Training and Exploring
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With more ankle surgery on the horizon in August I've been trying to get
fitter in the hope I recover quicker so last week I headed up North
Buttress with ...
5 years ago
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End of the Blog
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This is just to say that while the pages here will continue to exist, I
will no longer be publishing anything. Feel free to view the past posts
but for no...
6 years ago
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Antarctic Expeditions 2017/18
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ALE's Union Glacier Camp is up and running for the 2017/18 season so time
for an overview of this years Antarctic & South Pole Expeditions. Alongside
the u...
6 years ago
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Eventful so far!
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So the first half of 2017 has been pretty awesome so far, and super
eventful to say the least. I think the best way to show what I’ve been up
to is throug...
6 years ago
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Summer so far... (Part 2)
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Back from Skye I was back with Alan Halewood on a very busy SPA Assessment.
Kingussie was our venue for personal climbing followed by a day in Glen
Nevis...
6 years ago
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Grand Rocheuse N Face and a little more
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Following the excellent climb with Uisdean, Keith arrived for a solid week
in the mountains allowing little room for a break. Day 1 resurrected a love
for ...
6 years ago
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Manchester University Mountaineering Club winter courses weekend 2017.
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Well the snow returned in Glencoe right on que this weekend.
We were working with twenty two keen students from MUMC on their annual
winter safety and skil...
7 years ago
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Winter so far....
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The winter might have been slow to start this year, with limited snow and
too much warm weather, but that hasn't stopped us. We have been as busy as
ever a...
7 years ago
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Jordan
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My first visit to Jordan was through a work trip for a project set up
between the UIAA (International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation) and
the Jorda...
7 years ago
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Possibilities
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For an avid winter climber like me, Autumn is always a time of
possibilities. The reality of course is that proper winter conditions are
a long way off, b...
7 years ago
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Westonbirt Masterpieces
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Not my pictures but the incredible trees - mainly Acers that were in full
Autumn display today at Westonbirt Arboretum
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/westonbir...
7 years ago
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Busy day on the Aonach Eagach
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Quite a few teams making the best of the decent conditions and last of the
summer daylight days today in Glencoe. A pleasant dry day if a little
greasy und...
7 years ago
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Catch up
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After injuring my finger last November, it has been struggling to recover
fully. I've had time out climbing, but it just doesn't feel right. So
I've take...
7 years ago
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Thursday 12th March 2015 Intro to winter climbing
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Been working in the North West highlands for Martin this last week...
7 years ago
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NEW BLOG
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I have recently been working on a new website and blog. You can find the
new blog, with all of the old posts on this blog, here:
http://www.expeditionguid...
7 years ago
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Scottish Summer but Still Winter in the shade!
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Back in Scotland working on a 5 day Intro to Winter Climbing course for
Mountain Magic, www.mountainmagic.co.uk Blue Skies, no wind, warm sunshine
but fort...
8 years ago
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17-02-16, Aonach Eagach, Glen Coe - Winter Mountaineering
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After a mini thaw, wet, stormy weather of yesterday, lush weather has
resumed today in Glen Coe. Aonach Eagach was in a fine winter condition,
some new s...
8 years ago
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Glenshee intro
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Today Ana and I decided to try ski touring together in Glenshee. I had my
touring ski's for a bit but Ana bought them at the end of last season. Here
is A...
8 years ago
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Sorry, we're not here any more. We've moved to -
http://www.abacusmountainguides.com/blog
Make sure you bookmark the new page.
Mike
8 years ago
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America
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Swimming with dolphins, meeting the Queen, falling in love, standing on the
moon. Everyone seems to be talking about "bucket lists" nowadays.
If a climber ...
8 years ago
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Goodbye Apple Mountaineering, hello West Coast Mountain Guides
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Running Apple Mountaineering up until now has been good fun, and an
interesting learning curve, and it will be a bit of a shame to sideline it,
however, ...
8 years ago
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FUNdas, Assessments and Training oh my!
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After a blustery flight to Kirkwall on Thursday morning I have been busy
with work in the Islands two main climbing walls.
Some PPE inspections and meeting...
9 years ago
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Sochi - photoblog!
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Andy hasn't got a computer with him out in Russia - so here's some pics to
whet your appetite for when he gets back and writes up the trip…….
Today the ice...
10 years ago
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