No snow yet – don’t worry. No dry rock – don’t worry. Coming soon… Navigation courses with nineonesix
different view of ‘the big hill’ today
October 29, 2009 by nineonesix
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new website coming soon…
October 26, 2009 by nineonesix
Preparing for the Penumbra charity abseil…
October 8, 2009 by nineonesix
This afternoon I caught Sarah on the hop and took her for a practice abseil! Since coming on an intro-rock day with nineonesix Sarah Wedgwood has decided to do an abseil off the Forth Rail Bridge for the charity Penumbra. You can support Sarah by visiting her Just Giving page here. . All the best for Sunday Sarah!
early snow on Liathach
October 5, 2009 by nineonesix
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Swans above Loch Maree.
September 30, 2009 by nineonesix
More challenging conditions…
September 26, 2009 by nineonesix
Today Jim was out with Gillian for an attempt on the traverse of Liathach. Strong westerlies suggested that this traverse would be done from west to east. As it turned out this was a good call as we made it to ‘Spidean Coire a ‘ Leith’ by 1.30pm having had some reasonable scrambling on the ridge. Gillian did her 102nd and 103rd Munro today and is already thinking about Skye next season… Last month Gillian’s mum Betty compleated her Munros with Piped to The Top on Beinn Liath Mhor.
Good job that Gillian work in TISO, she needed that good gear today!
Wet and Wild on Beinne Eighe and Beinn Alligin
September 24, 2009 by nineonesix
Yesterday Ian was over again, to go on the hill with Lorna who was up on holiday from Edinburgh. After a wet start the weather cleared as we headed up onto Beinne Eighe and despite the wind we had a great day. Today we were up on Beinn Alligin, and as the lack of photos shows, it was not such a nice day, wet and wild, but we still made a full traverse of the mountain, horns and all!
A windy day on the Beinn Eighe ridge.
September 20, 2009 by nineonesix
Today I was out on Beinn Eighe with Peter and Robyn for their first real taste of a big Scottish ridge walk.
We approached the ridge by the classic route up from Coire Mhic Fhearchair. Once on the ridge we decided that the strong gusty conditions should be used to our favour and not against us so we headed straight over to Spidean Coire nan Clach. From there we dropped back down to Glen Torridon via the excellent stalkers path. Well done to Peter and Robyn for coping well with such ‘challenging’ conditions!
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On Thursday Ian was out on the hill with Philip, who is steadily working his way towards completing his Munros, which is quite a task when you are traveling over from Ireland for every trip into the hills! Given the good weather we headed round the back into Corie Na Caime to tackle the Northern Pinnacles of Liathach, with their short, interesting and quite serious sections of scrambling. On the way we were treated to some spectacular views of Liathach and surrounding hills. Once up on the ridge we were then able to complete a full traverse of the mountain including the pinnacles of Am Fasairen and a decent off the East Ridge. A big day, but well worth the hard work!
It’s the time of the season…
September 15, 2009 by nineonesix
Look closely, there were a lot of them heading for the bealach. Ben Wyvis proved to be a great choice on Sunday for fantastic glimpses of the road to Ullapool, the Torridon and Strathcarron Hills and an opportunity to practice our navigation.
On the way up we were overtaken by Denis Macpherson. No doubt testing some new Rab or Paramo gear for his great shop in Inverness? For friendly and sound advice visit Denis or his son Peter at Macphersons in the Victorian Market, Inverness.
