We’re approaching 6 weeks into lockdown and the lack of climbing is starting to tell. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and I briefly rekindled my running career, only to […]
The Old Man of Hoy is arguably the most iconic piece of rock in the UK and its ascent will surely feature on the To Do lists of every climber […]
There are hundreds of routes scattered along the seacliffs around the tiny hamlet of Reiff on the Rubha Mor peninsula – mostly shortish (10 to 20 metres), mostly non-tidal and […]
We trundled further north out of Ullapool, temporarily part of the North Coast 500 procession of giant white motorhomes (actually, the circus isn’t really in full swing yet, though most […]
These extensive sandstone cliffs are set on the sunny north bank of a lively burn, just 10 mins from the coast road, about 3 miles north of Ullapool (hint – […]
We’d visited the fabulous gneiss seacliffs at Diabaig a few years ago, and picked off the plumb lines on The Pillar, including the eponymous 4* E2. It’s a charming little […]
We figured Skye might be a bit rammed over the weekend, so headed back over the bridge to explore Applecross. Another charming stopover overlooking Loch Carron … and then we […]
