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.

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 !!

Sass Fee,The North Face Ice Climbing World Cup

Today myself, dad, Scott Muir & Andy Turner left Aviemore at 06.00 to drive to Edinburgh airport to fly to Geneva then on to Sass Fee to compete in The North Face Ice Climbing World Cup. It is held in a car park with 10 floors.

I was drawn to climb in 49th position which I was happy with ( not having to climb first !!)


The routes were really hard, the first few moves involved granite holds which were very scetchy before pulling onto a large ice block which swiveled!!. The whole competition was being filmed for The Adventure Show which is to be shown on BBC2 Scotland in March.

I finished in joint 75 position in the mens difficulty competition.


I was persuaded by one of the camera men to take part in the speed climbing competition which I did and really enjoyed, the fastest time was set by a Russian in 14.28 seconds, I took a little longer !! but made it to the top of a 60 foot verticle ice wall and finished in 23rd position overall which I am well pleased with.








We had a morning to spare so me and my dad took off up the nearest cable car then walked high up the nearest peak, we never had time to go to any summits but the views were brilliant.

Huntly's Cave

Today we went to Huntly's Cave, it was really cold but we done some great routes.

Me on Slot direct (severe **) Ellen on Slot Direct
Nikki on Slot Direct

We also climbed Right Hand Grove (V Diff *) and Cave Route (Hard Severe ***)