Tag: Scrambling

Learning scrambling and hillwalking with student hikers

13 November 2024

I learnt about scrambling and hillwalking with a student hiking club – we were a super diverse bunch, very supportive. I was definitely the slowest person every time we went walking that first year. When I got into climbing, I wondered what else was out there. I tried a well-known club's new members meet in […]

First day in Skye with the Climbing Clan – scrambling adventures

29 December 2022

A first day in Skye with the Climbing Clan at Easter. Scrambling up "not the drainpipe". My first time on this scramble, and a quality laugh. Originally posted on this post on Instagram

Kim and I finally did Tryfan

10 December 2020

When I heard Kim hadn't done Tryfan, and remembered I hadn't done this favourite minimountain for at least a year, I suggested a trip. Kim was going backpacking afterwards, I was headed to South Wales, it was perfect timing. In the second wettest conditions I've done it in, we headed up the North ridge, taking […]

Swim-scrambling explained

3 December 2020

Swim-scrambling (verb). Portmanteau of swimming and scrambling and involves scrambling up a moorland brook on a warm evening and jumping into bits of stream along the way. Eg. "After lockdown ended, Sarah and I went swim scrambling up Torside Clough". Originally posted on this post on Instagram

Returning to Eagle Crag – a childhood scramble revisited with Alex

10 June 2020

I was very young when I first did my first scramble up Eagle Crag. I loved it. So when we needed a fun little Scramble off we went up Eagle Crag. Stomp stomp. We walked along the valley. Stomp stomp stomp. We walked up the hill. "Are we nearly at the scrambling yet?" asked Alex […]

Four friends on a wintery Bristly Ridge on Glyder Fach

3 January 2020

Four Climbing Clan friends on a wintery Bristly Ridge on Glyder Fach. We a fun day trip up one of Snowdonia's most exciting scrambles, made all the more committing and exciting with a light dusting of snow. This is the sort of day I go climbing for © Originally posted on this post on Instagram

A fantastic day on Pinnacle Ridge in Ogwen

21 December 2019

Throwback to a fantastic day with Mark, doing Pinnacle Ridge (Ogwen) [VDiff ish]. Wonderfully exposed ridge with some exciting moves on it. There were a few times I said: "how the fudge do I do this?". Really fun to spend a day in unseasonably nice weather getting to tick off an objective I've been eager […]

An 11 person attempt at Lockwoods Chimney

3 December 2019

In July, we tried an 11 person ascent of Lockwood's Chimney. What is Lockwood's Chimney? Some people would call it a barrel of laughs. Some would say it is worse than drinking a pint of Carling. I would say it's memorable and unusual, and fun. All these photos are of the top of the second […]

Climbing Clan tackles the Cyfrwy Arete on Cadair Idris

16 August 2019

Throwback to the Climbing Clan Cwfry Arete group attempt, on Cadair Idris. Four teams on the route made for entertaining bolognese and sometimes crowded stances. I lead Lucas (fueled by a rumbling stomach) and my mum (fueled by thousands of chocolate almonds). What a fantastic route – each pitch having a different feeling with plentiful […]

Scrambling up Haytor with Ellen on a sunny Dartmoor day

6 May 2018

Not sure if Ellen loved the line of my scramble on Haytor ˜ certainly wasn't as bad as it looks ˜… Is dartmoor always his sunny? I'd love to return and tackle the trad! Originally posted on Instagram

Aonach Eagach in pictures

6 May 2014

As I wrote I might, I traversed the Aonach Eagach ridge in Glen Coe on Saturday. We were on the ridge it in ideal conditions and it was every bit as exposed, long and committing (there are no escape routes once you're on it) as expected. I was glad to be travelling with a group […]

Long weekend in Glen Coe

2 May 2014

It's a bank holiday weekend. Rejoice! Umm, yeah, I'm spending the weekend in Glen Coe at Red Squirrel Campsite! Yay. I've been to Glen Coe a number of times, some more successfully than others, and blogged about how to get there (even hitchhiking). Glen Coe isn't too far away from Ben Nevis, and its 24 hour, […]