Ascents in Scotland having Beta

Led every pitch and went first in our party of 4 to do all the route finding.

Very lovely climb, with fun 10m runouts in a couple places. Good exercise in trusting my feet.

Second onsight then tried to lead and completely failed to do any moves at all 🤦🏼‍♂️

Go right

Nice route. Was meant to continue on to do the arrow row route & integrity. Had a little rescue epic with one of our party and had to bail early instead.

there is an unprotected scramble from the top of the climbing, to the anchors

Don't go left!! High right foot wins!

Practiced on the shunt. Then led.

Repeat. Two laps today.

Pretty decent climb actually. Not so dirty now.

Got stuck in the crack, got mountain rescued, got a Tim Hortons

Repeat

Nice mellow sesh with seb en route to the cairngorms

repeat. clean

repeat. clean

repeat

This climb is set as a 6b+ in the UKC and is definetly technical and sketcy enough to be so.

Nice moves

First sport route in Scotland. One-move wonder

too contrived.

Slimy and wey today. Felt hard

too easy. Almost flashed

The anchor only have non locking carabiners with the gates loose.

Most fun route ever

Another brutal Rob's Reed start.

2nd go.

First 7b+. Took a few sessions and maybe 4-5 RP attempts. Didn't inspire me at first, but got hooked fairly quickly. Beta intensive.

2nd go.

very run out start but steady climbing

No idea if I did the right problem but seems to be tje same start and top hold (i did not topout)

Frist climb in Scottland

Glossy

Bold

4th go.

Bouldery

Flash pumped, felt much more mellow second go

A couple laps EOD to get pumped

Preplaced gear, 2 fiddly microwires on a 15m route is bloody bold.

Proud of this send! Pretty bloody dangerous route even with the gear in. We happened to be in the area and the strong boys wanted to sesh it, so we had a few more burns. Got a bucket full of beta and a day to wait for perfect condi's. Actually felt easy in the end, was much more relaxed having had another day on it.

FFA. I spent a couple of days cleaning and working this, trundled lots of teetering blocks that ended up becoming crucial fingerlocks and sidepulls. The moment I finished the prep cloud came with heavy rain. I felt so ready and committed for the route I cracked on anyway. Fortunately the crux holds and gear where dry, second half of the route was a waterfall. 😂 10m of insecure stemming on dripping lichen was tenuous work, what an adventure! Had lots of ground support from the fellas.

Couple of rest days on a rope sussing moves and gear and it went! Rad! Definitely not 6c unless perhaps on the onsight.

Couple of working sessions, it definitely goes! Linked from the ground rope soloing placing gear. Keen to tie in for the redpoint.

Seconding Sev after I down climb retreated from mid height in the roof. Contending with loose rock rattly gear and seep on the lower headwall felt too risky for me. Sev led on the nest of gear I placed low down, cruised the movement lower down finding an easier sequence than I did. He pulled off a microwave size magic block from the roof and trundled several kilos of moss off the top. Otherwise smooth, 15m off good climbing with 10m of sketchy unprotected moss soloing to the top.