Friday, 2 May 2008

Polldubh Bouldering







After a night camping at Glen Nevis Myself ,Dad And My Sister Went up to Polldubh bouldering. We went to heather hat first and done a few problem's. Then over to another boulder Before the rain came.

Thursday, 1 May 2008

Fort Williams brilliant new bouldering wall


Myself my dad and Nikki were almong a big turnout of climbers to attend the opening of Alan Kimbers brilliant new bouldering wall at Calluna in Fort William on Thursday night. The wall was built by Scott Muir from Extreme Dream and the problems were put up by Dave MacLeod. Some pictures can be seen on Dave's blog here, and on it's own u tube channel here, there are other photo's on Claire's blog here.

Monday, 28 April 2008

Tom Riach Boulder

Nikki
Ellen





It was a lovely day so we headed over to Tom Riach boulder with Nikki, Ellen and her dad, we stayed for about 2 hours before heading over to Ruthven boulder.

Saturday, 26 April 2008

BRYCS Round 3, Inverness Climbing Wall

After another long days climbing I finished in 2nd place to Dylan by 12 points, this means that I am in second place overall and qualify to go through to the finals at Ratho on the 28th of June. My sister Nikki was also climbing and came first. All the results can be found here.

Saturday, 5 April 2008

BRYCS Round 2, Trensition Extreme, Aberdeen

Today we left Inverness at 06.30, travelled via Aviemore to pick up Steve Hammond then headed through to Aberdeen for round 2 of the BRYCS. Again I finished second to Dylan. Nikki came first in the girls 11-13.

Saturday, 15 March 2008

BRYCS Round 1, The Ice Factor, Kinlochleven

Today we travelled to Kinlochleven for round one of the BRYCS 2008, I finished in second place, Dylan beating me by ONE point.

Saturday, 1 March 2008

Steve McClure

Today was the last in the training sessions set up by Scott at Extreme Dream it was with Steve McClure and it was really good, I was in the afternoon session along with Nikki, the two Ellens, Rhuairdh,Tom & Alastair.



Steve with the afternoon training session

He gave us some really good tips. Steve also tried the project that I am working on just now with Scott and graded it 7c+/8a which I am really pleased as I am only two moves away from the last clip.



Steve on Scott & my project



Just to end a fantastic day Steve asked as he was staying on for a couple of hours to boulder if we wanted to join him which myself & Nikki did, getting 2 hours bouldering with one of the best climber around....... Me posing with Steve !!