Knowing I had an 7 hour drive home ahead of me to get home, we made an early start to our day on Buachaille Etive Mor. With a short walk in from the road, this is a great place to gain altitude and get in the snow quickly. At lower levels the snow was well [...]

I’ve been waiting for the opportunity to get up Carn Mor Dearg for years, and every time I’ve tried to go up the back of Coire Leis (at the side of Ben Nevis) I’ve had to back off due to the poor snowpack stability. So to do both today was a real treat! We encountered [...]

After yesterday’s epic, Ally and I planned a shorter day’s walking and headed for the Mamores. Having parked above Kinlochleven, we had intended to go up Na Gruagaichean but, seeing a large Plas y Brenin group heading that way, we rapidly changed plan to get a bit of space from the crowd. Instead, we made [...]

Last night was spent travelling up to the Scottish Highlands, ready for a couple of days winter mountaineering. I didn’t arrive till 2.20am, so it was a bit of a shock the system getting up early for a decent day on the hill, but it turned out to be well worth it. I’ve come to [...]

One of my boys turned 12 on Tuesday and, for his birthday party, he asked me take him and a few friends to the Adventure Rope Course in Shrewsbury. They competed to see who could get the highest on the Crate Stake, before plucking up the courage to pull the quick release on the Giant [...]