Douglas Scott on Strone Ulladale on the cover. Telly Climbing was still occupying lots of minds. The recent broadcast from Gogarth had fired up more debate. The view of the editor was that ..." Few climbers can be entirely happy with representation of sport in recent climbing spectaculars " but Phil Watkin thought although they generally misrepresented the essence of the sport they nevertheless fulfilled the requirements of first class entertainment.

I remember that issue - thinking how lonely that figure looked, heading off into the great unknown.

I chucked that very mag out yesterday - along with a thousand or more others. There just comes a time when these things have got to go!

Why would you do that Jon ?

Has this Crag been developped since then. I was up there with Guy Lee and Clive Davies two years prior to this and we slept in the Bothie by the Loch. Wonderful place.

I wonder what happened to Phil Watkin. Seemed to disappear after Rocksport shut up shop, of am I wrong?!

Not sure what happened to him. Les Ainsworth was a friend and colleague at Rocksport at the time.