Cragging in Edinburgh!

Finally made it to Corbies Crag on the South side of Blackford hill in Edinburgh.

Dan got a late evening introduction to Scottish trad climbing!



We arrived about 7pm and after a little while finding the crag and trying to suss out where the routes lied we managed a blast up Sunny Scoop(Diff) and Whinchat(VS) 4b topping out the second climb in moonlight!

The rock is not as fragile as some of the descriptions had led me to believe however protection can be sparse due to the lack of cracks and the gorse is fierce. All in all a very plesent place to climb on a sunny evening. Dan and I are definetly going to give it some more attention at a later date.

UKClimbing Beers In Edinburgh

Edinburgh Forum users from UKClimbing last night held the first Edinburgh UKC Unofficial Pub meet.



Following a small error in pub selection all went off with much chat and beers!



Many Thanks to Nick in the mountains for suggesting the idea!

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The Cobbler

Warmest weekend of the year so far so ot would be rude not to go out.

Short of a partner for Climbing today as Brian has the in laws in town!

I headed for the Cobbler at the top of Loch Long on the west coast!

Didn't get there until about 1:30 romped up and has a look at the different routes on all the different summits.



Made a solo foray up the easy ground to the top of the central pinnacle and headed for home round trip of about 3 hrs.

Watched some dodgy abing off the south summit sorry if it's out of order to say but these guys concerned me with their lack of checking of beginners abseiling and no helmets!

A short spell in France

Just back from Friburge in Champagny en Vanoise in France.

Estelle and I have a small house there in the mountains at 1549m.

This trip was a short (3 days) along with trying to make final arrangements for the wedding this summer.

However I did get the chance for some good mountain activity.

Estelles uncle John-Pierre visited on the Fri/Sat and gave me some hints and tips of the pat-patinoire Cross Country sking technic and a loan of his skating skis.

This was hard work but I managed much better than my previous efforts at skating on CC skis as our poor time in the gorzderette showed up in January.

The last day I was hoping to go for a Ski Tour for the day on the last snows of the season but unfortunately this didn't work out and instead Estelle and I went a walk up to the snow lin on one of the descent routes down from the Roche de Mio in La Plagne.

This gave us some greate views of the southern ridge of the valley and a perfect preview of the rout to the Grand Bec via the |Refuge plan des gouilles.

New Website Section Created

This section is finally a new and better way for me to add content a bit more regurarly to the youngapprentice website.



It is mainly to keep track of my mountain excursions climbing / sking etc.



I hope to carry out my ML training and hopefullt exams during this season but must get out to the hills to ensure this happens!