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Roadside ice climbing pics on the BBC!

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Ron Walker 24 Jan 2013

Have you lot seen this!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-21181048

Enjoy

Cheers Ron

Denni 24 Jan 2013

In reply to Ron Walker:

Saw it on the news site Ron. Looks like you had a good time!

OP Ron Walker 24 Jan 2013

In reply to Denni:

Makes me want to move there for the weather and ice climbing!!!!!

Denni 24 Jan 2013

In reply to Ron Walker:

I can't wait for the day I can move back to the Highlands, till then, stuck on the south coast which ain't too bad :0)

OP Ron Walker 24 Jan 2013

In reply to Denni:

A few more pics of typical Scottish roadside climbing conditions http://fionachappell.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/climbing-at-germans-helmet-sloc... and at http://talisman-activities.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/french-ice-to-scottish-ic...

joan cooper 24 Jan 2013

In reply to Ron Walker: All this ice and snow!!!!!! theres snow on the Cuillins but the rest of Skye has missed it all, completely bare of snow this year speaking from the NW end.

george mc 25 Jan 2013

In reply to Ron Walker:
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/3094202

By the way no 'attempt'! Us two 'hardy souls' (followed by two other equally 'hardy souls')successfully scaled the German's Helmet emerging victorious into the sun. We congratulated each other with manly back slips and squinted manfully into the setting sun before descending the steep slopes and then risking a potential fiery death on the A9...

OP Ron Walker 25 Jan 2013

In reply to george mc:

P&J bananas!

See https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151367139619883&set=a.1015037...

Apparently there was also an article in the Daily Record showing some other climbers (possibly the 'Lodge'?) top roping (bottom roping!)

See https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=321869627913591&set=a.313456935...

AlH 26 Jan 2013

In reply to Ron Walker: Aye Ron, that was Andy T and I with 3 students. We led up but it was easier to get the students climbing belayed from the ground. There were several short patches of II to the left that were good for teaching and students leading too.