4* Sea Kayak Training

Sean and I are planning to kayak round Scotland this summer so in order to get some skills and knowledge we booked onto do our 4*.  We did it with Stewart Wagstaff and had a great 3 days learning all about tidal planning and coastal nav as well.  We stayed at Amy's house and during an evening Robert sat down with us and gave us loads of tidal advice about our route.

Sneeking up the side of Loch Etive just above the falls of Lora

Chilling in the sun on a hill just above Amy's house

Day two using the tide to cruse down Loch to the sea

Climbing with StAUMC - Buachaille Etive Mor

20 degrees in Scotland means only one thing... climbing.  James and I joined the mountaineers on Saturday to climb some awesome routes on Buachaille Etive Mor.  Annie climbed with us as a three and we got 3 incredible routs done on Rannoch Wall.

Top of January Jigsaw

Scrambling on curved ridge

A sweet little VS - Pandava's Progress
 

Knoydart

For Emily's birthday we headed over to the amazing and isolated knoydart.  We had incredible weather and spent al the time, chilling in the sun, walking, bonfiring, cooking muscles and generally having fun with friends.

Thanks Emily for an incredible weekend

Munro mission

before all the snow compleatly melted Joel, Amy and Myself heading up to the cairngorms for a munro bagging mission.  After staying with Sally-Anne in Laggan Lia we started off towards the courir both from Glen feshie.

Misty misty

The clouds were supper low so we naved all the way upto and accros the plateaux via several Munros.  Eventually after a long day we reached the bothy so pasta and sleep.

Sunrise behind the Corour Both in the Lairig Gru.

The sunrise was incredible before we headed back up onto the plateau to walk from the Devils Point along to Braeriach in amazing sunshine.

Braeriach Summit

After lunch we headed back down into Glen Einich using an amazing snow gully that we slid all the way down!

Sliding down the gully

After scrambling back up the other side we contoured around and down back to the totally exhausted.

Expand trip to Ben Macdui

After walking into and camping at the Hutchinson's memorial hut we had an early start  the next day with a beautiful sunrise.

Perfect weather on the way up to Ben Macdui

Incredible snow formations during our dash back to the car after summiting.

Uni ski trip

An incredible week of drinking, skiing, fancy dress, minutes and M.I.N.E.

A Scottish adventure

A weekend was planned to hit up some of Scotland's fines creeks however with no water plans were changed.

We ended up paddling the Upper Spean on 3 pipes then heading North up the East side of the Great Glen and falling of a low volume 8m drop.  That eve was spent in a deserted house up a beautiful glen.  We ate spit roast roadkill pheasant and slept on hay before scouting the nearby tribs the next day.

With no water the next day, we drove to Glen Etive and pointed at a hill to climb.  We ended up at the top of Bucheal Etive Begg greeted by lost of people in ice axes and crampons.

Snow with Louisa

Before Christmas, Louisa came up for 3 days of fun in the snow.  We went, boarding, skiing and then had a bike adventure in the snow up near Breamar.

Jonny and Louisa's Scottish Bike Antics from Jonny Hawkins on Vimeo.