Lochaber Blogs
Blogs (web logs) provide an ideal opportunity to explore the traditions, culture and wildlife of Wild Lochaber. We have put together a collection of local blogs and provide the titles and text snippets to give a taste of each entry with direct links to the main blog entry on the host website. We hope you will find time to explore the full articles and further information on the host blog sites.
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Lochaber High School
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A number of our young people will be planning on making changes to their timetable based on SQA results. We have managed to make a number of appointments available on Monday 20 August to start the process of altering individual timetables. If your son/daughter requires any classes to be...
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Dear Parents/Carers, School starts on Tuesday 21 August. There is an early notice bell at 08:45 to give our pupils the opportunity to get to class on time for a prompt 08:50 start. On hearing the early notice bell, our new S1 pupils should make their way to the assembly hall where they will be...
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Pupils at Lochaber High School achieved 5 silver and 9 bronze awards in this year’s UK Mathematics Trust (UKMT) Junior Maths Challenge. Over 260 000 pupils from across the UK sat the Junior Maths Challenge with the top 6% receiving a gold certificate, the next 13% silver and the...
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On Friday 15th June, 34 pupils and 4 members of staff set off on a 36 hour journey (it sounds worse than it was) to La Fosca, Spain. We arrived at the Camping Kings campus at around 9am on Sunday morning, where we were greeted by 2 of our group leaders Robyn and Dom. After being shown around the...
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Poster winners from Mòd Loch Abar:First place: Laura RobertsonSecond Place: Jamie AdamsThird place equal: Annie Macneil & Skye SpiersWell done to you all!'S math a rinn sibh!
West Coast Mountain Guides
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After numerous flight cancellations and delays, I finally joined my Adventure Peaks team in Cheget, Russia, at the foot of Europe’s highest mountain; Mount Elbrus. We had a gentle stroll today to help start the process of acclimatising. The weather played ball, and we had great views of the...
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Well, after weeks of good weather in the Highlands, I suppose we were due a change, but that didn’t stop Cher and I from tackling the Aonach Eagach in Glencoe today. We managed to reach the summit of Am Bodach before donning waterproofs, but from there on in, the rain and wind, whilst not...
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Beverly, Stephen and I enjoyed a brilliant day on Sgurr nan Gillean and Am Basteir today. We tackled the West Ridge of Sgurr nan Gillean both in ascent and descent, before making short work of the East Ridge (and Bad Step) of Am Basteir, again up and down. The weather was kind to us all day, and...
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Today I had the pleasure of being joined by Dawn and Stephen on one of our Aonach Eagach days. The traverse of the Aonach Eagach is one of the finest mountaineering journeys on the mainland, and links the two Munros of Meall Dearg and Sgorr nam Fiannaidh. It’s lofty crest dominates the north...
Glenloy Wildlife
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We have been busy running holidays for the past few weeks, so this is somewhat of a catch-up blog. Whilst the rest of the country has continued to swelter, here it has been normal service resumed. The weather turned towards the middle of July, leaving just a glimmer of glories past for our...
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Taking advantage of the second (!) protracted spell of hot, sunny weather here in the West Highlands we have been searching hard for dragonflies over the last couple of weeks. Already the temperatures have way exceeded those of last year (up to 30oC at the warmest), which has been a distinct boost...
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Along with the rest of the West Highlands, Glen Loy has been enjoying some brilliant weather so far this year. What a pleasant change that makes from the cool damp summer of last year. A lack of rain has led to a poor crop of grass, and many wildflower meadows have been allowed to flourish […]
Abacus Mountain Guides
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For various reasons it's been a while since I blogged about anything. This isn't because nothing has been going on. Actually we've been really busy with walks up Ben Nevis, corporate days out, days of rock climbing and scrambling. I was away in Latvia and Lithuania recently so it was really...
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The most easterly 4000m peak in the Alps is Piz Bernina and there is really only one way to climb it. The Biancograd is a long slender snow crest reaching up into the sky on the north ridge of Piz Bernina. It's very well known and celebrated for the amazing snow ridge but there is also a lot...
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On the east side of the Bregaglia is Monte Disgrazzia, a great mountain that is very different from the granite spires of the rest of Bregaglia. It is made of serpentine which is being quarried close to the road that winds up through 26 hairpin bends to Chiaregio. The rock is a bit like...
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When God made the planet he had a bit of rock left over so he put it all in Val Massino in Italy. This is the valley on the Italian side of the very well known Piz Badile. San Martino is just above 900m in the bottom of the valley and the peaks rise to a modest 3300m or so all around. From...
Go Mountain Goats
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There were two factors that both worried and excited me in equal measure as I set out to attempt the Cairngorm 4000ers record. The first was the weather: it was fairly blustery and a familiar wall of cloud hugged the plateau around Braeriach, as it often does. Cairngorm itself was clear and despite...
Anna Raven | Artist's Notes
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By some random chance, I seem to have developed a bit of a thing for coasters or trivets (I believe the Americans call them.) I say random because there has been no intention behind my gradual accumulation of these useful things but now I have a number of them and they give me great joy! The first...
Hunter Mountaineering Courses and Guiding
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Matt Leggett, on Observatory Ridge, Ben Nevis Matt Leggett on his way down Tower Ridge, Ben Nevis Matt heading down Tower Ridge Jon heading up Tower Ridge, Ben Nevis Esther on Malcolm’s Arete, Ship Boulder, Celtic Jumble, Torridon Eleanor on Curved Ridge. Iain Murray behind Iain Murray...
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Ben Nevis North Face in June Matt working on the Aonach Eagach My favourite tree. This is on Ben Nevis. A stag on Ben Nevis A ptarmigan on Ben Nevis Climbing on The Gutter Polldubh in Glen Nevis Tower Rodge Tower Ridge Glen Tilt caterpillar