ICE

The last wee while saw some rare ice forming up so I managed to get a couple of cool wee routes in. First up was taking my better half out for her first outdoor ice climb. We only had limited time and thankfully the waterfall 5 minutes from our village had frozen and we had a great jaunt up there.

I LOVE water ice :)

Kat cruising it

Happy days

Next up was a trip to Kentallen with my workmate Penny to get on a route Andy Spink had climbed the day before, 2 pitches of awesome ice looking out to the sea and mountains. 

First pitch

Heading up to the second pitch

Finally I had a less successful day on The Ben with Dave . We walked in from the lower car park as access to the upper car park is restricted at the moment. The routes looked promising but weren't so after Dave led a route and I experienced some fearsome hotaches we headed down. Good to be back on the Ben again with Dave though. 

Dave about to swim away up the route

Lovin the hotaches