The Old Man of Stoer

About one month ago Ruaridh Mackenzie invited some of the Inverness Climbing Crew (ones that he has climbed outdoors with before), if we wanted to go up the old man of stoer. so this weekend 6 of the Inverness climbing crew went to the old man of stoer, along with 6 adult backup climbers. We camped Friday night so we didn't have to drive up in the morning, but it were thinking it may be a bad idea as it was chucking it down on the drive over.

On Saturday morning we got up at 8 O'clock and got ready. We walked in about an hour then I saw the old man of Stoer, It was really big and awesome.

We abseiled down to a sea level ledge and set up a Tirolean, which we needed to cross to get to the stack. Ruaridh went up first and set up all the belay anchors, We had a adult at every belay station so we could all climb to the top without hanging around too long.

After a couple of hours, all 12 of us stood on the very top of the Old man for a team photo before abseiling back down.