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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Abacus Mountain Guides
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Scotland is renowned around the world for its changeable weather. Sometimes we enjoy very bad weather with a significant amount of wind, cloud and precipitation, but we also get very fine spells of weather in between. Rapid changes in the weather bring rapid changes to winter...
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We had a bit of a thaw earlier in the week which has stripped a lot of the snow from the mountains, but over the last day or two the temperatures have plummeted again. Elisa and Tamara are over from Belgium and with -8 degrees Celsius and 50-60 mph winds forecast for the summit of Ben Nevis we...
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We had a thaw on Sunday but it was only brief and there was little rain. The thin snow cover we had mostly survived and it has been cold with light snow showers since. So Lara, Sigrid and I enjoyed Curved Ridge today with a covering of soft, cold dry snow down to 500m or so and some older...
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Ben Nevis. The highest mountain in the UK. Tens of thousands of people reach it's summit every year and the vast majority of these are during the summer months when conditions are that bit easier and more forgiving on the inexperienced. But what about in the winter? During the winter months it...
West Coast Mountain Guides
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Over the past few days, I've been out with Blair, Seb and Nigel, who have been on our Winter Mountaineering Course. We've had to work hard to get up to the snow, with one day on Ledge Route, a day on 0.5 Gully in the Cairngorms, No.3 Gully on Ben Nevis yesterday, and finally, to wrap...
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I was out running the first day of a winter mountaineering course today, and to kick things off, Nigel, Seb, Blair and myself made an ascent of Ledge Route, whilst focusing on introducing the team to the rope, and looking at various types of belays that can be found on mountaineering terrain. The...
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After a rather awkward approach into Coire na Ciste on Ben Nevis today, Renee and I found great conditions on No. 3 Gully Buttress. The first pitch sported some good and some not so good ice, but enough solid stuff for it to feel secure. Thereafter, there was plenty of névé, which is particularly...
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I was out with Cornelius, Niko, Gero and Ivo, who are all over from Germany. They're only over for the weekend, but cramming as much adventure into their short stay as possible. To kick off their adventure, they caught the sleeper train from London to Fort William, which arrived at 10am. I...
Lochaber Chamber of Commerce
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A “health check” on the vibrancy of Highland towns and Inverness city centre has discovered major contrasts in towns across the region. Study assessed 14 Highland towns This major study assessed the strength, vitality and performances of town and city centres and was carried out in ...
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Safety-Zone provides health and safety training courses, including IOSH, NEBOSH and E-Learning, and a health & safety consultancy, throughout the Scottish Highland and Islands. Safety Zone is delighted to announce they will be running the NEBOSH one day Leadership in Health and Safety...
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We’ve all heard the phrase “Shop local” and at this festive time when most of us are doing more shopping than usual it is a great time to support our wide range of fantastic local businesses. That’s why Lochaber Chamber of Commerce is once again running our “Shop local” festive prize draw...
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Thursday 6 December saw the 10,000th native tree from the Nevis Landscape Partnership’s Future Forests project planted in Glen Nevis by well-known musician and radio presenter Gary Innes. Gary Innes braves the muddy conditions to plant the 10,000th native tree up Glen Nevis Gary had his...
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Introducing the Nevis Partnership’s first fundraising campaign! Beginning in 2014, the Future Forests project started the process of restoring the native woodland in Glen Nevis. Key to the success of the project was bringing together the local community, enabling them to get hands on in...
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Norfab, a leading manufacturer & supplier of fish farm equipment to the aquaculture industry, is pleased to report the successful movement of live brood fish for AquaGen (one of the worlds’ largest salmon breeding company with its head office in Trondheim and major production operations in...
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Corpach Boatbuilding Company has joined Gael Force Group Ltd, in a strategically significant move which could strengthen the West of Scotland’s boat building industry and see the introduction of steel feed barge building on the West coast. With potential to expand workforce and capabilities at...
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Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Minister for Further & Higher Education and visited West Highland College UHI in Fort William last week (Monday November 19).This was the Minister’s first visit to the college and, over a lunch prepared by Professional Cookery students, he met with Lydia Rohmer,...
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The Importance of good mental health What can employers do to help support their staff and how Lochaber Hope can help? Lochaber Hope are now offering an Employment Assisted Programme to assist employers in supporting their staff. What can employers do, and how can Lochaber Hope help? EAP,...
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A New Way to Engage with Local Social Enterprise ILM Highland have now expanded their service to offer a delivery service across Lochaber ILM (Highland) is a social enterprise and registered charity, and has been delivering valuable services across the Highlands for almost 25 years. Their...
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A Number of Bookings for the New Year Fort William Marina and Shoreline Company have secured a number of cruise ships booked to dock in Fort William in 2019 For a season spanning March to October, there are 17 cruise ships booked to visit Fort William with numbers of passengers ranging from 50 to...
