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Our aim is to give you an excellent day out, we do half days, evenings, full days or multiple days. We do not mix groups, so your personal, family or group activities are tailored to your requirements, abilities and aspirations. Take advantage of our indoor training area and accommodation package, spend the evening working on rope skills, belaying etc. to make the most of your day out. Ring us for a chat. Mountaineering Summer & Winter. Get onto one (or more) of the high tops via a scramble or rock climb. Personal guiding ratios will range from 1:1 to 1:4 depending on routes. Skills training 1: 6. We will teach and promote safe custom and practice throughout your day. Equipment, rope work, belays, belaying, abseiling, navigation what ever you require for the day. Classic routes such as Napes Needle & Napes Ridge Gt.Gable, Slab & Notch Pillar Rock, Pinnacle Ridge, Tower Ridge Ben Nevis, Curved Ridge Buachaille Etive, Aonach Eagach Ridge Glen Coe, Sou'wester slabs Arran, The Cullin Ridge Skye. Have a flick through Ken Wilson's 'Classic Rock'. We could just go and do that route you never got round too. The Grand Day Out. We will work our way from crag to crag from the valley floor onto the tops, walking, climbing and scrambling. This is ideal training for the Scottish mountains Cullins / Torridon or Th'Alps ('The Alps'). Dust off those Winter Tools. Learn how to use those ice axes and crampons and other jangly bits. Be safe in the winter hills, winter walking to ice climbing. covers: moving over steep terrain, route choice, navigation and survival skills. Single & double axe techniques, ice axe breaking etc, step cutting, cramponing, rope work, belays and belaying. Learn the skills to tackle those high tops and 'classic routes' in winter conditions. Rock Climbing. We use a wide range of crags throughout the area. So we could be climbing on different types of rock (granite, limestone, sandstone, etc.) and different lengths of route, multi pitch and single pitch. Single pitch (Ratio 1:6 max). Means one rope length or less from top to bottom of crag. This is ideal for beginners or groups as there are a wide number of routes to try. After gaining confidence on easier routes you can test yourselves on harder climbs or just do lots of easy climbs. Improvers. This is the ideal place to learn to lead and second, place gear(running belays), move outdoors from indoor walls, prepare for multi pitch climbing, belays, belaying, rope management, single rope and double rope techniques, self rescue and crevasse rescue.
Multi pitch (Ratio 1:2 max ) Large crags require multiple rope lengths and belaying (tying to) to the rock face en route to the top. We will look at route selection, route finding on large crags, descent options, belaying and rope management on belay stances, change overs, leading through, protecting the leader the second/s and rescue techniques, double rope and single rope techniques, why, where and when. Everything you need for mountaineering routes.
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