A few more ideas for trips

Long autumn weekends Glen Nevis/peak/lakes/reiff
When the midges are gone and the Indian summer arrives we need to get a few decent weekends sorted!

Bothy Trip for first snow

First white stuff hits the ground lets go play in it, glen feshie was good last time. Bit of whisky in front of an open fire and a wee bit of winter nav would do us all good.

Mountain routes
There’s still time...

A2 sessions
Boo its time, the fatness/weakness needs to be destroyed by the a2, any one up for a regular session again, I’m going to try and get 2 a week from sometime soon!

CIC Hut mid week – next spring/summer

Had this idea for a while reckon we could prob get a few places in the CIC mid week off peak. Would be great to do some more stuff on the ben as I’ve only done 1 rock route!

Torridon Winter
Calum's uncle has a cottage in kinlochewe that we got last year for 4 days, could prob fit about 6 folk. I really fancy the Liathach traverse, a big route on Beinn Eighe and a few more munro rounds. Will try and confirm with himself when he get back from the alps.

Lofoten next year
Got the book last year and really cyked. Reckon it would be a great trip for everyone, with big mountain trad, craging, sport climbing and bouldering. Need to research it a bit more but a week next year some time would do the job I reckon.

Alps next year
Has to be done can’t believe it wasn’t! If I can’t take the time off I will quite ma job!!!!

taking the 'trad quiz' on facebook the day i realised that we are all punters (except Tim, whose evil ways we must pray for redemption!), yet our very own krac has been silent for too long. everyone seems to have gone there separate ways and this should surely be remedied come the autumn!

my thesis is nearly done and im psyked for some action, so lets hope the weather improves and we can get out to play. i have some plans, if anyone is out there let me know what you think and when anyone has time!

long weekend north wales/peak
walk from braemar to fort william in october over all munroes in between (5nights bothy/bivy)
sneaky mountain route in the sept sunshine
play in the first white stuff (cant be long now, feckin freezin up here!)


let me know folks!

The Thin Crack - Roslin Glen

Did someone say somethin about Cobra Crack.... pah!

this is clearly the best crack line in the world! 8m high, finger torquing, mantling, and laybacking.... and thats just before the true Roslin top out onto a 5m 45degree mud bank! seemeed much safer just to fall off!

FONTING AWSOME!

Austrian Adventures

Unfortunately, ive had little opportunity to scribble down a report of our trip to the land where the basement was invented and (inbred) babies are born with skis on. But alas, the ‘krac has been quiet of late so I thought id better subdue the chants of the evil fontites and tell you all about a real winter holiday!

So it was that Rieni invited me out to his pad over new year for some ski touring in the back country around the small town of Tamsweg. Along side the other visitors, Moritz, Gita and Hannas, we would be accompanied by a crowd of Austrian mountain goats who had been climbing mountains since about the age I started smoking! To have such an array of guides is something I cant be too thankful for. Not only this but Reinis’ father used our presence as an excuse to stay with his girlfriend for the week leaving his amazing house to us – a fact we were equally grateful for!

I was glad to hear that there was to be another boarder amongst all the skiers, surely we could share the pain of snowshoeing in the wake of those gliding easily up through the powder. Unfortunately I soon found out that Moritz was the Sports-Furher making Hitler look like Mother Teressa, and Arnie look like a soggy Sugarpuff; this guy was a machine and I was to be slogging up the hills all on my own!

Thankfully the first day was the worst as thereafter I knew what to expect and paced myself accordingly. I had also suggested that Rieni needed slowing down so he should carry my board, a suggestion I was surprised to see accepted! A wimp I may be, but I was now a lighter wimp! Day 2 brought us up a long gentle valley which was far less tiring and topped out on a beautiful summit with untracked slopes as far as the eye could see.

The first descent took us down an awesome powder field giving some of the best riding id ever experienced. It was so good that we went back up and burned down it a second time before hiking up the other side of the valley, which gave some steeper terrain on a similar quality snow. The only downside to riding untracked powder all day is that you have to go up in order to come down, and unless you own a chopper this requires serious effort! But, what can you do, powder is there to be ridden and when the opportunity arises one can not but oblige and beast up the hill until your legs explode!
On the morning of the 31st dec our Furher suggested a 5am start to get up b…… at sunrise and do a 1500m descent before breakfast. This is where I should have left the machines to their own devices and spent an extra few hours in bed. But that would have been too easy! Moritz was near the top before I had even finished my morning rollie and Rieni wasn’t far behind, but to see the last sunrise of the year over the Austrian Alps was a moment ill never forget. The descent was sweet although a little icy and we were down for breakfast at 11am before setting off on the traditional hogmanay tour up djd……. From which the views just about made up for the effort of a second tour in a day but the descent was not really suited to a boarder of my ability! Still, some sledging, a great meal and a ‘slumpppeeyyy’ fuelled party saw in the new year and we narrowly missed being up for 24hrs when my reign of elbow dropping terror failed to rouse anyone from their slumber!

Further tours brought some more excellent snow and a short trip through the mountains to visit the Herolds in Hintertaal brought back memories of untold carnage on a previous holiday to Austria and we did our best to recreate the banter with numerous Jaeger bombs at the infamous Alm Bar. On piste with a hangover the next day held little appeal so having boarded from Hintertaal to Marie Alm I jumped on a train to Bishopshoffen from which we went to Rieni’s Grans’ house. An amazing place where I could have spent the rest of my days had her cunning ploy to hide my passport succeeded. Unfortunately our plan was foiled and after another fine day on the hills it was time for me to head to Saltzburg where Gerhard and Julia kindly put me up for a night before I had to return to the dreaded lab where i have been incarcerated since.

Thanks to Rupert, Martina and Reini for a wicked holiday and to all the others there for putting up with my slow pace, incessant smoking and unnecessary drunken violence! Hopefully see you all in Scotland soon - where you shall understand the origin of the above traits!

Bloc Party

The Fontainecrew so far is:-

Me, Tim, Andy, Mark (wee), Marc(big), Bry, Al, Fiona and Leena.

2 gites. 9 pads and a big forest full of boulders to caress.

psyche 10 worries 0.

Psyched for bikes? And snow? have a looky see.....

air

time

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