Bowline Climbing Club

Small steps in mountaineering

Mess of Pottage, Coire an t-Sneachda, Cairngorms

Mess of Pottage, Coire an t-Sneachda, Cairngorms. Taken on 10th March 2013. The morning started beautifully, but by the time we got here it was cloudy, windy, and later heavy snowfalls started. [© Masa Sakano (License: CC)]

So I started this winter climbing season nursing a calf injury I wondered how it would feel standing on the front points of my crampons! I thought well the only way to find out is to go and do some climbing and that's what I did.

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Created on Thursday, 16 May 2013 12:02

Marmot Dark Mountains

28th January 2013

One perfectly pleasant October evening at Loughborough Climbing Station, Will approached me to discuss some thoughts he’d had on a mountain marathon. Having never done one, he’d thoroughly researched all the options and decided he would like his virgin attempt to take place in the dark (obviously) and in January. He had picked the world’s first night time Mountain Marathon and he needed to find a team buddy who’d done the normal day version. January, I pondered, as I warmed my hands in front of the heater...how bad could it really be??.....

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Created on Thursday, 16 May 2013 12:02