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Mick Ryan
Trad climber
The Peaks
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 26, 2012 - 05:47am PT
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I thought some of you may appreciate this: we follow two visiting Austrians' adventures in Scotland, as they learn about our ethics, weather and haggis.
There's a video too, as well as lots of eye-candy.
http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=4997
All the best,
Mick
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Borut
climber
french, spider, cheater
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Nov 26, 2012 - 06:44am PT
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All the best, good men!
Thanks for sharing this. Einzigartiges klettern!
Great Scotland
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Nov 26, 2012 - 10:21am PT
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AWESOME!!
Thanks Mick!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Nov 26, 2012 - 12:02pm PT
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Wow!!! What a cool report.....never have I had such cold looking images make my palms so sweaty.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Nov 26, 2012 - 02:16pm PT
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never have I had such cold looking images make my palms so sweaty.
Heh heh, that's perfect.
Breasts for Mick! ( * )( * )
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Nov 26, 2012 - 02:20pm PT
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How can you have Scotland Badassery without Tom Patey?
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Borut
climber
french, spider, cheater
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Nov 27, 2012 - 06:25am PT
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Bump!
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Nov 28, 2012 - 08:58am PT
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Thanks for posting that cool video, Mick.
My only visits to Scotland have been through the writings of Patey, MacInnes, and the like. So, the video was an education in what “full on” conditions really look like. Quite impressive for those continental lads to pluck a new route, when I imagine it usually takes a while to get comfortable climbing on rime.
Quite an accomplishment just to film it in tough conditions.
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Borut
climber
french, spider, cheater
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Nov 28, 2012 - 09:27am PT
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Quite impressive for those continental lads to pluck a new route, when I imagine it usually takes a while to get comfortable climbing on rime. There's rime around, but you climb with tools, and mostly follow cracks, and ice and snow, same as on the continent.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Nov 28, 2012 - 11:36am PT
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Mick, now you have really pissed me off. Those pix/video are unfair.
For the past two years plus I have been wanting to get to Ben Nevis and Glen Coe for some ice, but Jennie's medical condition has prevented it.
I have the gear and even lined up a couple of partners a couple of times. And Dublin to Fort William (either Aer Lingus or bmi, and hire a car) or the car and ferry would suffice. But alas...
Now you torment me with eye candy and stories. You are a cruel boll*cks. ;-)
EDIT
And anyway, right now I do not even have the money to get to Holyhead on the ferry. Sigh...
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
Nevada City
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Nov 28, 2012 - 12:28pm PT
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excellent. great to learn a little, being that i am an ignorant american, about what winter climbing is like in scot.
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Mick Ryan
Trad climber
The Peaks
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 30, 2012 - 07:42am PT
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Conditions are starting to get good.....
The current spell of cold and snowy weather has resulted in some excellent ascents in Coire na Ciste on Ben Nevis. This corrie is ideally suited to early season mixed with routes mainly dependent on hooks and torques rather than frozen turf.......
.......The finest ascent of the week so far took place in Monday November 26 when Guy Robertson and Greg Boswell made the third ascent of The Knuckleduster (VIII,9) on Number Three Gully Buttress.
Keep your eye on.... http://www.scottishwinter.com/
and: http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Hey Mick, if you are ever in Dublin, look me up. Dalkey Quarry is a five-minute walk from my front door.
Cheers
Patrick
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go-B
climber
Hebrews 1:3
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May 12, 2013 - 10:06am PT
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Great! Scotland is Free-zing!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 17, 2014 - 02:51pm PT
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Tommy: Doesn't it make you proud to be Scottish?
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: It's SH#TE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the f*#king Earth! The most wretched miserable servile pathetic trash that was ever shat on civilization. Some people hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to get colonized by. We're ruled by effete as#@&%es. It's a shite state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won't make any f*#king difference!
--Trainspotting
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 20, 2014 - 06:37pm PT
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mar 20, 2014 - 06:59pm PT
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Thanks Mick. I went over in 1972....had just climbed the Salathe Wall but didn't have a lot of ice experience. My army buddy (who didn't climb much at all) and I did the first American ascent of Point 5 Gully which still had a big rep at the time.
We opened the door to the masses. When word got out that two inexperienced Yanks did it, the floodgates opened.
Loved everything about Scotland...the people, the greasy fish and chips, the scotch and, after awhile, even tolerated the vile weather. I could not, however, get behind haggis.
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