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Category: Alpine
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On one of the final corners tired legs and poor control led me to wipe out very unceremoniously but Alex soon had me back on my feet, focused and we skied down and out for the pub!.. trashed but VERY happy
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A piece written by our resident Mountain Guide Andrew Mallinson, penned before Christmas but very pertinent as the snow and ice returns to the UK and many of us are now gearing up and getting out to the Cairngorms and other areas … So what do we want in our seasonal stockings ? Well, with…
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Get out. Do something. Do anything. Outdoors.
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Its something we all do, get “complacent through familiarity” . Be it walking across a road, driving a known street or as in this case, think we are safe on a well know mountain “because we have been here before”. I’m glad to say climbing in a team of regular buddies as I tend to…
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So let me get it out the way – – I am OCD about weight, space etc and they just typically don’t serve a need for me – i don’t take hot food on a climb and its rarely hot enough in Scotland to need a keep cold solution. That may be about to change…
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after much hunting around, trying on and almost giving up I stumbled across the Fjern Orkan shell
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Its frozen ropes, sodden gloves, painful and somehow also numb fingers, running noses and feet of frozen pins and needles.
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the journey in life echos the climbs.. the plans (or lack of), the decisions that need to be made, the sacrifices, the mistakes
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We have everyone turning up from total beginners through to GB Ice Climbing team members and sponsored climbers but it’s all about the banter and having fun.
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The above picture, grainy and black and white though it captures a conversation I had some 3 years ago that will remain with me for a long time.
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I trained, I surveyed route guides, we talked ideas, plans, fallback plans, gear and fear.
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