Intro Rock

17/20 August, Intro Rock and back at Castle Toward for 4 days rock climbing instruction. The August summer weather took control of this week with 2 days outside and 2 days at Ibrox climbing wall. Neilston Quarry was the venue for the 2 days outside which is a great venue for starting out, lots of D's and VD's.

ML Assessment

10/14 August was spent on Ardgour with Pete Hill. We were assessing SML for Trainee Instructors from Aberethy Trust. A good week was had apart from the occassinal west coast summer weather, strong winds and horizontal rain, east is best......... sometimes.

Intro Nav weekend

August 8/9, was spent working with Trainee Instructors from Castle Toward Outdoor Centre in Dunoon. This was a back to basics couple of days which will now enable the trainees to go out and log up their quality days pre ML training.

Creag Dubh

Spent Sunday afternoon at Creag Dubh with Steve. Good relaxed time was had climbing King Bee and then Inbred. Good to see the crag quite busy with other teams on Brute, The Hill and The Force, making the most of our Scottish summer. I hadnt climbed here for some time and had a bit of a flash back when confronted with a 45' wet grass bash at the top of the 3rd pitch on King Bee. Character building!

Summer

Feels like i havent blogged for some time. Its been a busy couple of months mostly working at Glenmore Lodge. Ive had 2 rock climbing courses with only 1 day out of 10 being rained off! Not bad for a Scottish summer. This week im working on a Summer ML training course.

Tyroleans....

Bit of a techy day today with Steve and Dan from Outfit Moray. We visited Quarril woods just outside Elgin with a view to setting up a new Tyrolean venue for groups. The old quarries make good venues with easy tree anchors, take off and landing spots. The activity is designed as a team building exercise where the group follows photo diagrams to set the whole thing up. We then added a postmans walk (slackline)which could be an additional challenge. The day finished with a review of the working guidelines/procedures and the risk assessments.

Inaccessible Pinnacle, Skye

Sunday was one of those days you wait years for. The Cuillin, blue sky, warm, no wind and no midges, awesome!

A great day to tick off one of your last Munros for Jim, Stevie, Hugh and John from Stirling Walking Club. Probably the hardest Munro which involves some easy but exposed climbing/scrambling.

Cheers to the guys for a great day.