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I have been adding free Sport Climbing downloads to the gofurtherScotland homepage to try and pass on the details of the fairly continuously steady rise in the number of bolted routes in Wester Ross, new venues too compared to the SMC Scottish Sport Climbs Guide and 7aMax second edition
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I am just back from a short climbing trip to Siurana in Spain with Paul. It’s actually been a long time since Paul and I have climbed together properly. In fact, we are talking years. Anyway, the title of this blog post sums our trip up.
Normally when I head to Spain in November, […]
The climb with Alex Jones may be over but Go Further’s Paul is hanging out for a while longer. The team have de-camped to Vegas for some hard-earned rest but are then travelling to Red Rocks for some more climbing before heading back to Scotland. Well done to Paul and the rest of the […]
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Go Further’s Paul Tattersall is working as part of the crew filming Alex Jones on her mission to climb one of the biggest rock routes in the US for Sport Relief – Moonlight Buttress in Zion national park.
The One Show presenter has spent three months training for the climb has told the […]
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“This small country contains some of the most unspoiled territory in Europe”. Don’t take our word for it – that’s CNN speaking who listed Go Further Scotland‘s sea-stack climbing adventure in their ’10 wild things about Scotland’ feature last week. Thanks CNN.
“The country just gets wilder the further north you go.” […]
A new Sport venue has been created down near Tollie Farm, Wester Ross. Stop at the parking place for Creag nan Luch and The Perch shines like a beacon directly ahead, carry on to the end of the road at the loch shore and it is a five minute walk up once you know the […]
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There are three new routes on the left hand side of the crag. All fully bolted and all monopolising the same lower-off. The routes on the crag from L to R are:
Little Dancer 5+ 15m
Old Degas 5+ 15m
Cosets and Colonels 5 15m
Stormy Monday 5 12m
A Game […]
The Sport Crags around Wester Ross have been busy lately, people clipping bolts everywhere, all leafing through their pristine copy of the new SMC Sport Climbing guidebook. But it is already out of date. For info – there are three new 5+’s on the LH sector of Creag an Oisean, a direct finish to Ronald […]
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The latest SMC Guidebook will soon be on the shelves. It should be available by the end of May according to Andy Nisbet. He ended up as the main driving force behind the guidebook and without him there was no way it would ever have been published. It has been […]
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Over the years we’ve been on the mountain or trail with many people who have said they would be keen to try new ways of exploring the wildest corners of the Far North West. Inspired by this message, we decided to offer something totally unique – an intensive three-days of relentless outdoor adventure…Our idea was […]
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