Blog Entries from West Coast Mountain Guides
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Dave: Last year was 100% success on all traverses and this year is off to the same great start. On Saturday and Sunday, myself and Ivar completed a Cuillin Traverse with a 12 hour day 1 and 9 hour...
Dave: Today was my first day with Nick Gardner and it was a pleasure, unfortunately the forecast was against us, but Nick said he was keen for a 6am start as he was sleeping in car anyway. We made...
Dave: It’s been great to be back in the Cuillin sharing the joy of the scrambles and the achievement of its peaks with our guests.
The weather has been a mix bag the last week but before that we had...
Dave: Over the last three days I have had the pleasure and privilege of facilitating 2 days of training for members of on the Inaccessible Pinnacle and a day with some of the West Coast Mountain...
Dave: Spring and early summer really is the best time to rock climb in Scotland and over the last two days I have been sharing this pleasure with our guest Martin.
Day 1 we travelled to the Etive...
Dave: Great conditions on Tower Ridge today, after the snow approach we had dry rock with no crampons or ice axes needed until two steps below the Eastern Traverse, the thin slithers of snow in the...
Ken: After a week of rock climbing, mainly on lesser-traveled routes in Glen Nevis and at Dirc Mhor, it was back to winter climbing today. Roddy and I climbed Green Gully, which is mostly in...
Ken: This past week, it has felt like winter is drawing to a close. The sun has been shining, the freezing levels have remained above the summits and the mountains have suddenly become much quieter....
Ken: Apologies for the rubbish photos! Mark and I had a day off before our second CIC Hut Week of the season and decided to squeeze in a day of climbing. We thought that the North Face of Aonach Beag...
Dave: March really is the best month, longer day light hours and fatter ice. The last two weeks have been some of best guiding I have done. Last week at the CIC hut during some settled weather I...
