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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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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Climbing the Old Man Of Hoy 1967
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Tom Patey and Chris Bonnington, Joe Brown and Ian MacNaught-Davis, Dougal Haston and Pete Crew climbing...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, mick... thanks for the scotland thread...
had not seen this, first time around...
thanks marlow for the fresh share, that brought it back up...
:)
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Thanks Mick. Really enjoyed the video. Just watched the entire thing while sipping a shake chocolate porter.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Whether it is going to hold or not still has to be decided by the Scottish mountain goblins. What is certain is that the next trustworthy hold seems further away than the nearest whisky distillery ^^^Brilliant
Retreat from Cuillin of Skye. Proper Scottish conditions
Adam is in fact smiling.....sort of
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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I could not, however, get behind haggis.
I thought SF guys could eat their own Granny's intestines in a pinch....
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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May 21, 2014 - 01:04pm PT
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Mull of Kintyre
Oh mist rolling in from the sea,
My desire is always to be here
Oh mull of kintyre
Far have I traveled and much have I seen
Dark distant mountains with valleys of green.
Past painted deserts the sunsets on fire
As he carries me home to the mull of kintyre.
Mull of kintyre
Oh mist rolling in from the sea,
My desire is always to be here
Oh mull of kintyre
Sweep through the heather like deer in the glen
Carry me back to the days I knew then.
Nights when we sang like a heavenly choir
Of the life and the time of the mull of kintyre.
Mull of kintyre
Oh mist rolling in from the sea,
My desire is always to be here
Oh mull of kintyre
Smiles in the sunshine
And tears in the rain
Still take me back to where my memories remain
Flickering embers growing higher and higher
As they carry me back to the mull of kintyre
Mull of kintyre
Oh mist rolling in from the sea,
My desire is always to be here
Oh mull of kintyre
Mull of kintyre
Oh mist rolling in from the sea,
My desire is always to be here
Oh mull of kintyre
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 21, 2014 - 11:31pm PT
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hey there say, marlow... wow, i REALLY love those two landscape photos...
wow, thanks for sharing... :)
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 25, 2014 - 09:47am PT
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Tis almost that time of year! Bugger the mozies!
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lars johansen
Trad climber
West Marin, CA
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Sep 25, 2014 - 01:04pm PT
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Thanks for your continued interesting content Mick & Marlow.
lars
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Sep 25, 2014 - 01:51pm PT
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Bloody good thread this. Bloody good.
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Sep 25, 2014 - 03:12pm PT
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I love Scotland - Islands and Highlands, I love them both
Eillen Donan
Scapa Flow
Edinburgh
Old Man of Hoy from the Sea
Ben Nevis
Skye
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Sep 25, 2014 - 03:48pm PT
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hey there say, wow... i love seeing the pics from scotland...
a very good friend, by internet and a groupforum for an actor-friend that we know, well, she died a few days agoa...
she once said how she wanted to move back home, so she could die in scotland... she lived in northumberland...
they will take her ashes to lockerbie, though...
the ol' scotland 'tug in heart' remained true, all her life...
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MH2
climber
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Sep 25, 2014 - 06:08pm PT
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Goes a ways toward explaining my friend Robert.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 25, 2014 - 06:43pm PT
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Yes, but I doubt one can ever truly understand eating haggis.
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Jorroh
climber
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Sep 25, 2014 - 07:24pm PT
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Marlow...thats Neist point...not the mull of Kintyre.
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Stewart Johnson
climber
lake forest
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Sep 25, 2014 - 07:48pm PT
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Excellent climbing in Scotland
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E
Ice climber
mogollon rim
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May 19, 2015 - 03:22pm PT
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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May 19, 2015 - 04:50pm PT
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The locals dress kind of funny. Must be all that great Scottish whiskey!
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Stewart
Trad climber
Courtenay, B.C.
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May 19, 2015 - 05:03pm PT
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I spent my formative years in Scotland & ma wee mither was Scottish.
Here are the lyrics to the "official" Scottish national anthem & sorry I can't figure out how to post the music:
The Flower Of Scotland Lyrics:
When will we see your like again
That fought and died for
Your wee bit hill and glen
And stood against him
Proud Edward's army
And sent him homeward
To think again
The hills are bare now
And autumn leaves lie thick and still
O'er land that is lost now
Which those so dearly held
That stood against him
Proud Edward's army
And sent him homeward
To think again
Those days are past now
And in the past they must remain
But we can still rise now
And be the nation again
That stood against him
Proud Edward's army
And sent him homeward
To think again.
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Stewart
Trad climber
Courtenay, B.C.
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May 20, 2015 - 04:17pm PT
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And don't forget the clegs
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Now I understand what's wrong with Scotsmen
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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move over scotland, there's a new caledonia in town
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 19, 2018 - 10:42am PT
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The Storr (Scottish Gaelic: An Stòr) is a rocky hill on the Trotternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye in Scotland. The hill presents a steep rocky eastern face overlooking the Sound of Raasay, contrasting with gentler grassy slopes to the west.
The Storr is prime example of the Trotternish landslip, the longest such feature in Great Britain. It is the type locality for the mineral gyrolite.
The area in front of the cliffs of the Storr is known as the Sanctuary. This has a number of weirdly shaped rock pinnacles, the remnants of ancient landslips.
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