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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Hunter Mountaineering Courses and Guiding
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Early Winter Season of 1999. Hell’s Lum Crag with Matt Back in 1999 I made a quick visit to Hell’s Lum crag with Matt Leggett. We did a couple of routes in great icy conditions, including Hell’s Lum, which was in great early season Grade IV condition. This was back when I was...
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Martin on Tower Ridge – at the top Myself, Mat and Huw on Crowberry Tower 2 climbers on Curved Ridge continuation Martin on Observatory Ridge Mat and Huw on Castle Ridge John climbing on Ben Nevis Tina on The Gutter Above Moonlight Gully, Ben Nevis Salamander Curved Ridge
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This last week (Monday 25th Feb to Friday 1st March) I was working for Jagged Globe on their Snow and Ice Climbing Course. Simon was working alongside me. We had Martin, Mat and Huw as keen climbers for the week. We were unable to offer our standard winter fayre of climbs but we did have a classic...
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1st March 2009. 10 Year Anniversary. A climbers’ rescue from Coire nan Lochan The 1st March 2009 was just another day in the (voluntary) office for all the GMRT volunteers, and the RAF Search and Rescue Force, involved in this particular Glencoe rescue, photographed here. This climber was...
Abacus Mountain Guides
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The wind turned round to the North and we were forecast a very cold day today so Bob and I headed up to Ben Nevis. It turned out not to be so cold on the walk in and we scratched our heads a bit about what to climb. Rain last night made the ground very wet and fresh snow on top was all a bit...
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The snow made a very welcome return last night. Over the weekend it cooled down a bit and we got some fresh snow on the tops, but a lot of rain as well! Last night it snowed dopwn to 600m and there was quite a lot of it too. Will, Jonathan and I walked up the Allt a'Mhuilinn through a few...
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The recent warm, dry spell of weather has got us thinking about the Cuillin Ridge on Skye. A traverse of the Cuillin Ridge is a classic expedition that many people aspire to. What most people underestimate is just how big a challenge it is and how well it measures up to anything else in the...
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We set a new record today for the most people climbing on Rannoch Wall on a February day. Given the dry warm weather it was an obvious choice but I still didn't expect quite so many people to be there enjoying the conditions. Elved, Tony and I were the fifth team up Agag's Groove, the best V...
West Coast Mountain Guides
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Today was day 3 of Linton and Chris' Introduction to Winter Climbing course and we headed to Glencoe to tackle Dorsal Arete. Linton led the first three pitches before I took over to lead the guys over the fin and to the top. Conditions were better than expected, with plenty of useful snow...
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Linton and I enjoyed a quiet day on the West Face of Aonach Mor today, where we climbed Western Rib. We started up the flying buttress on the left and gained the main rib after 4 pitches. Conditions on the route were mixed. Some useful patches of frozen ground but there's a glazing of ice...
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Winter has returned to the Highlands, sort of. We had fresh snow yesterday and today, but the freezing levels have still remained quite high, so Michael and I headed up to one of the highest crags in Glencoe; Church Door Buttress on Bidean nam Bian. We didn't encounter the fresh snow until...
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It's hard to believe that we're at the end of February at the moment, with conditions more like the end of April. It's a shame that winter has taken a break recently (due to return this weekend), but it's hard not to enjoy days like we've been experiencing recently, what...
Dave MacLeod
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The second in our 6-part series about interesting folk in the Nevis Area is out. This time about Dave Cuthbertson. I spent most of my youth trying to repeat Cubby’s desperate rock climbs all over Scotland. In recent years, I’ve been in front of Cubby’s lens while he takes his amazing climbing shots...
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People are busy, including me. This post goes through how I manage busy work periods from a training point of view. I also discuss a common theme related to failure to recover from climbing injuries which I've discovered through the many thousands of messages I've had from climbers worldwide since...
Highland Titles
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Around 50 million people around the globe claim to have Scottish ancestry, and no matter where they are, they will proudly admit to their Scottish roots and ties. This extreme sense of identity could very likely be connected to the clan concept. As described in Scottish Clans and Families, the word...
Nevis Range Blog
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Nevis Range team up with Endura Over the past decade the growth in mountain biking internationally has been huge and it’s no surprise that this has been matched in Scotland! The sport has come a long way since the very first Mountain Bike World Cup graced the Nevis Range in the Scottish Highlands...
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Mountain Biking Get your Bikes out the Shed! Both Gondola Accessed Tracks are now open! Tracks are rough in sections, but both running pretty smooth. Mountain Bike Uplift is at a discounted price until the 31st of March at only £25 for an adult and £18.50 for a child. All Snowsports Season pass...
Lochaber Chamber of Commerce
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Over the last 12 years Lochaber Hope has seen a steady increase in customers who are seeking counselling for workplace issues and issues affecting productivity and performance at work, for example stress, relationships, debt or substance misuse. While many employees have access to remote...
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As part of the recent rebrand of Marine Harvest to Mowi, the fish farming company has enlisted Fort William-based All-Round Signs to produce much of its new signage and update vehicle livery with the new logo; a job that is one of All-Round Sign’s biggest of the year. Mowi has been working with All...
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A Moray-based, sister company of Lochaber Chamber of Commerce Northern Engineering and Welding Co. Ltd (NEWCo), engineering and construction firm is celebrating 20 years in business with a calendar of events including a virtual bike ride covering 21,000 miles – the same distance that the firm...
