Huntly's Cave

Today we headed off to Huntly's cave again with dad and Nikki where we met up with Ellen and her dad with Jade and Dawn, It was a brilliant day, really sunny but cool enough in the shade to climb.

Me at the crux of Huntly's Jam


And over the crux



On the lead on right hand groove



Nikki on Dead Tree Wall



Me on Diagonal Direct.


The routes we done today:

Hanging Groove 10m E1 5c *

Huntly's Jam 10m E2 5b *

Right Hand Groove 10m V Diff *

Slot Direct 10m Severe **

Dead Tree Wall 15m VS 4c *

Double Overhang 20m HVS 5a ***

Diagonal Direct 12m E1 5c *

Cave Direct 25m VS 4b

Huntly's Wall 25m E3 6A **

I had a go at Lime Street E4 5C ** but fell off less than half way up !!!!!!. . I will put photos of the others climbing on here when I get them [ my dad's camera batteries packed in so we only got a few photos.......... ]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.