From Galloway Sea Cliffs & Glenapp Castle
From Knockinaam Lodge
From Bladnoch Distillery
From Mingulay Washout
From Pabbay
From Scottish Sailing & Climbing
From Scottish Canoeing - Balquhidder
From Worth a punt?
From Shadow Buttress A

Galloway Sea Cliffs & Glenapp Castle

Tuesday, 1st September 2026

To celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary we’d arranged a very special stay at a very special hotel in Galloway. But before that we were slumming it in normal climber’s fashion and enjoying a bit of rock climbing on the fabulous sea cliffs around the Rhins of Galloway. Meikle Ross Our first climbing stop was Meikle …

Knockinaam Lodge

Sunday, 15th December 2024

As a very special pre-xmas treat Laetitia took us to the most amazing hotel for a complete five-star experience. Knockinaam Lodge is famed not just for its luxury accommodation and food, but also for its links to John Buchan and his book The 39 Steps; and to Churchill, who stayed here to plan parts of …

Bladnoch Distillery

Saturday, 14th December 2024

On our way to Knockinaam Lodge we took advantage of the journey from Cumbria to Galloway and visited the Bladnoch whisky distillery…

Mingulay Washout

Monday, 30th September 2024

After last year’s amazing trip to Pabbay we thought we’d follow that up with a trip to Mingulay for more awesome climbing on another mythical uninhabited island in the Scottish Outer Hebrides…

Pabbay

Monday, 12th June 2023

We’ve been looking forward to and fearing our trip to Pabbay, a remote and uninhabited tiny island off Scotland in the Bishop Isles, in varyingly different amounts for some time…

Scottish Sailing & Climbing

Sunday, 17th May 2015

I’m just back from a week on a CC meet in Scotland based on a sail boat. The aim being to sail to some Scottish islands and sample the rock climbing using the boat as our accommodation…

Scottish Canoeing – Balquhidder

Tuesday, 10th June 2014

We’ve been looking forward to the multi-day canoeing trip in Scotland with our friends Paul and Lisa for ages. We’d planned the trip back in February and this past weekend we finally set off on our new adventure.

Worth a punt?

Tuesday, 21st January 2014

There’s a lot of guesswork involved in Scottish winter climbing. Making decisions about where to go, and whether conditions will be amenable to climbing. It’s been even more of a gamble this year, with a lot of stormy, wet and much milder conditions than we’ve been used to in recent years.

Shadow Buttress A

Monday, 13th January 2014

Last weekend I climbed Yukon Jack in Coire an T-Sneachda with Adrian. It was a nice climb to start the winter climbing season. But this weekend, we wanted to get away from the crowds and head somewhere different. The weather looked better in the East, so we thought Lochnagar might be a good alternative.