Chris and I are part of the retained fire brigade in the Highlands and Islands and this week we joined fire crews extinguishing the hill fire on Liathach. It started on Saturday afternoon and lasted until Tuesday evening. During that time the Fire Brigade had five appliances on site as well as a helicopter on [...]
Guide Lines: Easter on the Torridon Hills
on April 26, 2011 Leave a Comment
This Easter bank holiday I had a great time guiding in the Torridon Hills. On Friday I was up on Liathach with a group. The sun was out, the temperature was perfect and there was almost no wind. The rock was dry and the pinnacles were superb, offering some great views. On Saturday I was [...]
Digging In for Winter Training: A Snow Hole Lot of Fun
on February 18, 2011 Leave a Comment
This weekend we led our first snow hole trip of the year. On Saturday we headed over to Cairn Gorm, with the sun blazing, for a cracking walk up onto the plateau. During the walk-in we had great views into the coires and out towards Aviemore. We then started to cross the plateau, creating not [...]
Three Men and a Loch: Our Bold Fundraisers
on February 13, 2011 Leave a Comment
We have just put a new photo of the team up on our Marie Curie Fundraising page. After a few months of training and fundraising we are slowly raising money but we are still a long way off or target. So over the next few months we will be running activity movie nights in the [...]
Sloping Off: Rich in the Hills
on February 6, 2011 Leave a Comment
I had another interesting holiday period at the start of the year as once again I tried to spend as much time as possible in the hills. I managed to climb a number of mountains that I had been looking at for a while and started improving my ice climbing skills. Along with all of [...]
