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
Continue Reading →” and the winner of this year’s Golden Karabiner is…..”. Once again everyone had a lot of fun at the only Climbing Triathlon in the country. Competitors came from far and wide, Inverasdale, Newcastle, Gairloch, The Overside, Inverness, Dundonnell and even Melvaig. Saturday was a dry day up until about 5pm and by then we […]
Continue Reading →Our 2014 calendar of courses and training camps is being finalised and the first to go into the diary are our three-day running courses for spring and summer. Dates for autumn will be included on our course page soon.
Trail Running – three days – 11th – 13th April
Adventure Running – three days – 20th – […]
Continue Reading →Adventure running in North West Scotland.
Last weekend we organised a 30 mile running adventure through the southern half of the Fisherfield Wilderness following the length of Loch Maree from close to Kinlochewe to Poolewe. The weekend included everything – wild and high trails, remote glens, an overnight stop at a secluded beach and – […]
Continue Reading →“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.” […]
On a cool but dry and bright morning two weeks ago, Colin and Paul set off to do a round of the Torridon Munros over Liathach, Beinn Alligin and Beinn Eighe. Here’s what happened.
Continue Reading →After a good night at the Dundonnell Hotel and fuelled up by a traditional breakfast, Aaron and team enjoyed a full day out on An Teallach. We did the classic traverse from Corrie Hallie and encountered not another soul until reaching Sgurr Fiona. The rock was dry for the scramble over the Corrag […]
Continue Reading →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 […]
Continue Reading →Last night more than 50 people ran in the 3rd Gairloch 10km. It was a stunning and warm evening and, as usual, the coastal road route made the event very special.
After the race local runners met to discuss the re-launch of Wester Ross Athletics. There’s been a surge in running activity in Wester Ross […]
Continue Reading →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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