Journal
44 entries, 2007 to 2026
Trip reports and route write-ups. The original blog went down years ago, so 43 of these were recovered from the Internet Archive, along with 17 of the comments people left at the time.
2026 1
2011 4
- Gray Mare's Tail Picture Published BMC Summit 64 Just found out I got one of my Gray Mare's Tail ice climbing pictures published the latest British Mountaineering Council (BMC) Summit 64 magazine. It's featured in the Top 10 Extreme… 1
- EMFF 2011 So Summer was brief, its rainy cold and the days are drawing in, time to get cyked for winter and the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival 2011. I've got my fingers crossed for a winner 3 years… 1
- Open London 2010 I’d never been to London before; well I had been in the sense that I’ve rushed about barely catching flights and getting crushed in the tube, but here was the chance for a proper visit.…
- Fuselage gully Flushed with the success of Slioch and recuperated after a rest day sitting in front of the fire we headed for the big one, Beinn Eighe and Callums first winter climbing route Fuselage…
2010 6
- Slioch On a crisp, cold day we drove over to the head of Loch Maree and parked up. With the first hints of dawn rose-tinting the sky, the surrounding peaks and the dusting of powder at our feet we…
- Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival 2010 Perfect Day Photography Competition Win Pleased to announce that I have again won one on of the categories in the EMFF Photography competition Perfect Day Neil Mackenzie, Lewis and Reiner Luyken. Last day of the 2010 touring trip…
- Warren Millar's Wintervention So getting very cyked for the start of winter and thought I had watched every skiing / snowboarding video in existence. However another one is on its way and not just any video but the…
- Edinburgh Mountian Film Festival 2010 Photograph missing So the time for the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival (EMFF) has come around again and if this years is as good as pervious form we have some great lectures videos and…
- Epic day - Bynack More Despite the epic drifts of snow bearing down on the ski-road, our approach to cairngorm car park was remarkably un-enthusiastic. Our plans were undetermined and our path over the vast…
- Gray Mares Tail to Road Side Lowland Ice After weeks of freezing weather in Edinburgh I was cyked to get out to some lowland ice venues and I thought no one was up for it until I received a last minute txt from a Mr Dunn. We left…
2009 11
- Fun in the Snow So the snow continues to fall in Newtonmore and I’m loving it, been looking after the hostel car park and over a week of clearing it every day has produced wall of 5m round it, were…
- Geal-charn Ski Tour Been wanting to get out ski touring for a long time and I finally managed to cobble together the gear. The last week and the constant snow and cold had me very cyked and a little nervous… 1
- Let it snow, let it snow let it snow. So up north for the festive hols, and it dumping anyone whos up and about give me a shout to go play in the white stuff.
- The Message Finally got on "The Message" last weekend, met up with a mr Neil Silver organiser of next years Scottish Tooling Serise. We climbed it in very easy nick, pre made ice hooks all the way!… 1
- First route of the season Despite a knackered ankle I set out to the Cairngorm's last weekend for the first route of the season "Original Summer Route" a very nice varied IV, 5 **. First pitch up the grooved rib was…
- The Cam Doctor has come to the UK Check out a new project I've done the website for thecamdoctor.co.uk offers cam trigger wire repair kits at a much more affordable price than those currently available. Can vouch for the…
- BMC Summit 56 Cover Happy to report my photo made it onto the cover of this winters issue of the quarterly BMC Magazine, Summit 56. Deep cut chimney James Dun catches the final hook on pitch 1 of Deep Cut…
- EMFF Photographic Competition Success Had a great time this weekend at the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival . Watched some great films and some inspiring lectures. Two of my pics did well in the photo comp that was running at… 2
- Prints You can now buy all of my prints at My Photobox.ProGallery
- Ben Udlaidh We had a great two days up at Ben Udlaidh, one of Scotland’s premier ice venues. The first day, conditions were perfect; no wind, blue bird skies and about -4 at the base of the crag.…
- Festive Fun Hope everyone had a good xmas. I Had a great time staying up north over the festive period. The weather was amazing most of the time with cold still air and inversions conditions over the… 1
2008 16
- Gallery development The new gallery is getting there and is up with a few test images here. So far I have a PHP back end which loads images details and forwards this via JASON to the JavaScript from end. This…
- A Walk up Creag Meagaidh So I went up North for a bit to visit the folks before they head of on holiday, we had a week of intensely shit weather up in Newtonmore but I picked my day and managed to get out on…
- Dark Souls With ice on our minds we had planned to head west and sample the delights of Beinn Udlaidh, however reports of insufficient build up and a bad weather forecast convinced us to head for the…
- Midi-Plan During our rest day after the mini-epic that was our ‘easy rock day’ we moved to a campsite in chamonix and met up with the injured Wee Mark (hope the knees getting better!!) and the…
- Northumberlandtastic! This month has been the month of the county, a pilgrimage to the famous sand stone and sunny climbs of Northumbria. Our first trip brought a much needed return to Back Bowden. Unfortunately…
- The Chere on the Cake I wasn’t sure if I was still asleep, for some reason the mountain had turned into a never-ending stream of light, as though the martians had landed to colonise our camp. Nick gave me some…
- Site Development So keeping up the pace I'm going to be doing a bit of development work. The old gallery system has been stripped out! It was coded several years ago and was just to clunky; both for myself… 1
- Published TGO magazine have used one of my pictures on the cover of there November 2008 issue, in shops now. 2
- Camping on the Col Eventually we managed to hook up with Nick, our friend from previous alpine adventures, and the numbers were once again balanced (unfortunately Mark was still cursing his gammy leg!). Laden…
- Site Design Ok so after a few years of inactivity a new site is being designed, it will be simpler and tiny bit web 2.0 styled but not over the top. 1
- No climbers on the Cosmiques?! And so, a week into our trip, it was time to try to get a route done! This required a change of tactics, we bought a multi-day lift pass and vowed to climb shorter routes within range of…
- Parat Signeur - An easy day on rock? Time for some alpine rock, personally recommended by one of Scotland ’s best ever climbers and, according to the guidebook, with ‘one of the finest approach walks in all the Alps ’ we were…
- Mis-adventures on the Mer de Glace! Fresh faced and eager after a false start on the Conville course we planned an adventure up the famous Mer de Glace, onto the Lescaux glacier and to a bivi boulder behind the Courvecle hut.…
- Conville course So, this was the long awaited start to our Alpine adventures..... in the good company of our guides Dave and Phil we set off up the Grand Montets to cover simple crampon work, rope…
- Torridon 2008 Just thought id add a few words to go with Andys awesome pictures from our Easter trip After Wills notoriously unreliable car lost its rear spring as we passed Drummochter we sat around all…
- A wee break from winter... So could have been up north hacking up gullies with the masses but for various resons there has been a lack of winter action for the punters. This wee break has been filled by my second…
2007 6
- Logie Head rocks Last weekend a car of three headed for the o nly dry place in Scotland the M oray Coast. Darkness fell as we set off on what was to be a troublesome journey and we he aded for the bridge.…
- To the spammers! Site should now be secured against XSS, So you can all get lost! will see how it stands up in the next few days and continue to improve if necessary. On a better note More updates and new…
- Two Great weekends climbing I have been out the past two weekends climbing and had two very different experiences that show how variable and deadly the Scottish winter can be. The first weekend I was climbing on Ben…
- Stob Corrie na Lochian Perfect day out, rock hard nevi, great to finally climb in the Coe.
- Homeward Heading home for the week between first and second term. Will hopefully get some climbing. Snowboarding and walking in, see the folks and relax. Expect some good photos when I get back. 4
- Nearly Done Only XML to go Ive got a few details to fix on how its outputed. Soon the gallery in its entirity will be avalibal as an XML document which can be browsed 2
