Today I was working the first of four days on Martin Moran’s New Year Course. The mountaineering and climbing groups both headed up to the SE cliff of Fuar Tholl. Alex and Martin made ascents of Access Gully with their clients and I led Brian & Karen up a variation on Right Hand Buttress. Click here to see another couple of photos, or visit Martin’s website.
blog by Jim Sutherland
Categories: winter climbing, winter mountaineering
Tags: Access Gully, climbing, Fuar Tholl, guiding, Martin Moran, nineonesix-guiding, Right Hand Buttress, Torridon, Wester Ross, winter climbing, winter mountaineering, winter skills
Around lunchtime I managed to take advantage of a weather window and nipped up the south side of Liathach to see how damaging the thaw has been. The gullies, snowfields and butresses of Coire Liath have often provided a good mountaineering route the the main ridge and Spidean a ‘ Coire Leith. I was not disappointed today, either. After a wee scramble through the rock band I was able to climb the gully leading up to where ‘Way Up’ grade I, also hits the main ridge. This popular route also looks complete, just as Martin Moran said in his blog on the 26th, it just depends on what the next thaw does…
The forecast was for more unpleasantness later in the afternoon so I made sure to be down in good time via, what we call in the rescue team, ‘The Escapte Chute’. There was plenty of daylight left so I used another rescue team route to save the legs from a pounding on the normal route down.
Click here to find out about our winter skills, winter Munros, winter mountaineering and climbing courses.
More photos in the gallery.
blog by Jim Sutherland
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Categories: winter mountaineering
Tags: climbing, guiding, ice axe, Liathach, Munros, nineonesix, nineonesix-guiding, scramble, Spidean a' Coire Leith, Torridon, Wester Ross, winter climbing, winter mountaineering, winter skills
… relax and enjoy Christmas. Then you can start thinking about learning those new winter skills, making that classic traverse of The Black Carls shown above, or finally making the transition from winter mountaineer to winter climber.
Already we are welcoming back clients from AdventureMalta, and Cambridge University for the second year, as well as over 20 students from Stirling University for the third year.
Visit the nineonesix-guiding website and explore the winter and our courses links.
Our photo gallery might also give some inspiration with recent activitiy.
Jim Sutherland
nineonesix-guiding
Categories: general information, winter climbing, winter mountaineering, winter skills
Tags: abseiling, Adventure Malta, Beinn Alligin, Beinn Eighe, Cairngorms, Cambridge University, climbing, guiding, ice, ice axe, Liathach, Munros, nineonesix, nineonesix-guiding, Torridon, universities, University of Stirling, winter climbing, winter mountaineering, winter skills
My mate could not get up the hill from his village this morning so I was left to go out on my own. To prepare for various things I decided to solo an easy buttress route on the Meall Gorm crags above the Bealach na Ba road. Lucky for me I managed to drive as far as the Sword of Gideon carpark and after the route my descent took me straight back there as well. Way Out II provided a nice short route before the weather came in. Some soft snow and unfrozen turf but a great wee chimney pitch near the top made up for this!
Check out more photos on the nineonesix-gallery and some movie clips here.
To find out about how you can get on a winter climbing or mountaineering course with nineonesix-guiding please click the links below:
winter courses
winter guiding options
blog by Jim Sutherland
nineonesix-guiding
Categories: general information, winter climbing
Tags: Bealach na Ba, buttress climbing, climbing, Grade I, grade II, guiding, ice axe, Meall Gorm, nineonesix-guiding, Torridon, winter climbing, winter mountaineering
Climbed Jacobs Edge Right Hand with my friends Ian and Laura today. Pretty good conditions. A wee bit of slab around but not a problem on our mixed route. More photos on the gallery tomorrow.
All photos by Ian & Laura
Jim Sutherland
nineonesix-guiding
We are pleased to announce that bookings are open for :Torridon Winter Skills, Torridon Winter Mountaineer & Lochaber Winter Mountains. Please click on the links below for a PDF with course information, then contact us to make a booking.
Lochaber Winter Mountains
Torridon Winter Mountaineering
Torridon Winter Skills
Jim Sutherland
nineonesix-guiding
Categories: general information, winter climbing, winter mountaineering, winter skills
Tags: Aonach Mor, Beinn Alligin, Beinn Eighe, Ben Nevis, climbing, guiding, ice axe, Liathach, Lochaber, Munros, nineonesix, nineonesix-guiding, Torridon, winter climbing, winter mountaineering, winter skills
Myself and Dunc had never climbed Twin Ribs in Coire an t-Sneachda before so it seemed a good option today. Three great mixed pitches and two abseils saw us back down to the corrie quite quickly to avoid topping out into some strong winds. This would be a great climb to start on if you wanted an introduction to winter climbing.
Why not get in touch with nineonesix-guiding and book something now that winter has finally arrived?
blog by Jim, photo by Dunc
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Today I was working the first of four days on Martin Moran’s New Year Course. The mountaineering and climbing groups both headed up to the SE cliff of Fuar Tholl. Alex and Martin made ascents of Access Gully with their clients and I led Brian & Karen up a variation on Right Hand Buttress. Click here to see another couple of photos, or visit Martin’s website.
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