Category: Ice Climbing

Ice (and mixed) climbing. The type of climbing normally done with axes and crampons.

Scottish Dry Tooling Competition

Friday, 18th November 2011

I took part in the final round of the Scottish Tooling Series held at Glasgow Climbing Centre at the weekend. I wasn't sure what to file this random and bizarre sport under...

A Close Encounter of the Unexpected Kind

Tuesday, 8th March 2011

How many times have we all walked into Evan Thomas creek down Kananaskis?

Frendo-Ravanel

Saturday, 5th March 2011

The forecast had been for snow, snow, and more snow, but what we got was sun, sun, and more sun, and the occasional early morning cloud.

Rjukan long weekend

Thursday, 10th February 2011

A party of six Wayfarers joined Smiler's CC meet to Rjukan this week...

Snow and Ice – Brevent et La Cremerie

Sunday, 6th February 2011

We’re in Chamonix for a long weekend. We planned to meet up with some friends I had made while I was working in Nottingham. They are here for a long weekend skiing trip and we thought it would be great to catch up with them and maybe go for a ski tour together. We all …

Early Season Ice in Wales

Wednesday, 8th December 2010

Well, we can't easily get to Scotland but Ogwen is presently an ice paradise...

Some rock, some snow, some more rock and some more snow

Tuesday, 20th April 2010

Our last few days in Chamonix have seen us attempt a few adventures, but for one reason or another have not seen any major successes. Cascade de Doran On Thursday we went in search of rock. We’d picked out Cascade de Doran which is on the south side of the valley from Sallanche, because it …