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Lochaber Guides offers professional mountain guiding and instruction in Summer and Winter. We specialise in ascents of Ben Nevis, Glencoe and the Skye Cuillin Ridge.

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Skye Cuillin Ridge Guiding — The Inaccessible Pinnacle, Skye Cuillin. Inaccessible Pinnacle Guide

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It's always great to get back on the rock in the spring time. @alanhalewood and I were out with a keen team from @uhiwesthighland @soas.uhi to work on their trad climbing. We took the drive over to Kingussie and were rewarded with (mainly!) dry rock and a bit of sunshine. Good questions and learning for our time and it was great to have MCI trainees @morag_skelton and Cahal along today too.

Spring has sprung! It was a perfect day to give the Certificate in Outdoor Leadership students at @soas.uhi an action packed grand tour of Glen Nevis. We started with a scramble into the sunshine on the SW ridge of Meall Cumhann. After heading to the summit, we descended into Coire Guisachan before crossing the wire bridge to Steall Falls. Glen Nevis is just amazing this time of year! Best of luck to the students as they head away on work placements shortly.

Possibly my last day of Winter work this season and what a brilliant finish! After rescheduling due to an apocalyptic weather forecast in January, its was great to finally get out with @caitlinc4771 and @scottcampbell92 on a day's Winter Mountaineering. Scott has been busy this winter getting plenty experience and instruction and did a great job of leading some of the initial pitches of Ledge Route, with Caitlin quickly picking up the skills to be a competent second. We then enjoyed the helpfully snowy upper section before topping and descending the Red Burn. A top team to finish off my season!

It was a very snowy morning in Lochaber today and Scott @kirkhopemountaineering and I quickly changed plans to stay a bit more local for a day of personal climbing. We drove as far down Glen Nevis as we dared (just passed the Youth Hostel) on an increasingly snowy road and headed from there towards Stob Ban. Scott had a couple of unclimbed lines in mind and after some investigating and humming and hawing, we settled on a nice looking corner line on the South Face of the East Ridge, N top Stob Ban. The first pitch was a lovely slabby corner with some good hooks in the corner and thin feet on the slab. The second pitch had another corner with a steep couple of pulls on turf to join the E ridge. A scramble down the ridge to the bags and a walk out to Spring sunshine and blue skies finished off a most enjoyable day. Ban-dit Corner, IV, 5/6 * 80m.

Continuing our ridges theme, Ryan and I walked through rain, wind and eventually some snow as we arrived at the East Ridge of North Top of Stob Ban. The turf was frozen where it counted despite yesterday's soggy conditions and it was great to see Ryan pick up and use an array of techniques for mixed climbing from hooking and torquing to throwing some good 3D shapes! We nipped up to Stob Ban to bag the summit before descending the N ridge in some gusty winds. The hills were certainly looking whiter by the end of the day.

Not a day to take too many pictures today! Still, Ryan, Darren and I embraced the return to normal West Coast weather with an ascent of Dorsal Arete. We had a dry start on a rather slippery and snowy path in to Stob Coire nan Lochan before the forecasted rain and strong winds arrived. A descent back round the ridge into the Coire revealed the rapidly rising freezing level. Top effort from the guys as usual.

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Fort William
Scotland

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