Lochnagar

Today myself and Dad went up Lochnagar hill walking. The weather was cold and very windy on the top.

I want to go back and climb in the Corrie!

Tooling

A few weeks ago I got a new set of ice axes made by E-Climb. I really like them as Scott let me use his ones when I was in Italy & Sass Fee earlier this year.

Tooling in the cave with my new axes:

Reiff

Today me and my Dad went to Reiff, we arrived there at 11am and climbed till 6pm. we started off by abseiling down to the ledge at Black rocks but as it was in the shade and very windy we climbed back up The Grooves 20m severe* then moved over to the pinnacle area which was more sheltered and in the sun.

These are the routes we done:

The Krill 8m VS 4B

Skel 8m Severe

Slab corner 20m Diff*

Slanting corner 8m severe*

The routes we soloed:

Descent corner 8m Mod

Kiddies corner 8m Mod *

Toddlers crack 8m Mod

Kindergarten 8m Severe

Juniors Groove 8m Vdiff *

Something old 5m Vdiff

Some picts of the day:

Logie Head

Friday after school we wanted to go camping/climbing so we went to Cullen as the weather was looking better in the east, we camped at Cullen camp site. After a night of looking at the guide I was phyced to go and climb at Logie head. Myself, Nikki, Dad and Mum got to the crag at about 11:00am and stayed until 4:30pm, we got Five fantastic routes done:

Bladder Wrack 10m Severe 4b

Sea Urchin 10m Hard Severe 4b

Sea Link 10m V Diff *

Poacher 10m Vs 4b **

Fishermans Tail 10m Hard severe

Some picts of the day!!

I really enjoyed Logie Head and I will definitely be going back.

Moy Crag

On Thursday night myself, dad,and nikki went to moy crag as the weather was quite good. We got there about 7:00pm and got two routes done a 6a that has been there for a few months and a 5+ 6a that had just been put up by Will about 4 days before.

me on the new route which I recon is 5+/6a

Nikki top ropping the new route.

Training with the British team

Yesterday I was at Extreme-Dream and Glenmore lodge training with Scott Muir and some of the British team members.
The training started at 10.00am and lasted until 6.00pm The warm up was a run around aviemore, then running 300m with a Tyre attached to you, punching a Punch bag, Climbing with one hand, hard foot work, dry tooling, then finally some campusing. Then we headed of up to Glenmore lodge to the gym. for some really hard stomach training, leg work and weights.



So today I am really Sore!!!

Home bouldering wall

The last four days or so, me dad and Nikki have been extending the bouldering wall in our shed.

The shed two years ago.

After about an hour of getting all the rubbish out of the shed we started to get to work.

The end of day one it looked like this:

Then we had a full day drilling and T-Nutting!!

Then the fun began!!!

Us putting the last board up at 22:15

As we were so psyche to climb on our wall we decided to climb.

The cave finally finished!!!