Sunday 18 February 2024

Bouldering near Dunsapie Loch, Holyrood Park

 


I'm pretty sure bouldering near Dunsapie Loch is forbidden. But if it wasn't...


Wednesday 14 February 2024

Tuesday 11 April 2023

Bouldering in Ard Scalpsie Point - Isle of Bute (mini-topo II)

The coasts of Port na h-Aille and Ard Scalpsie Point have some small outcrops and screes. Most of the rock is made of a flacky mica-schist (too many holds). The stones are often too small and covered of lichens. A huge vein of igneous rock (basalt) crosses the peninsula and forms a decent south west facing crag.

Here are a few decent problems and their locations.

        • Groovy, SS, 4+
        • Pinch the nipple, 6a
        • Sidestep, 5
        • Descent route, 3
        • Rock over, 4+
        • Wall direct, 4


        • Canadian barndance, 4
        • Boston two steps, 6c




        • The floor is lava, SS, 6c
        • Time is of the essence, SS, 7a+
        • I spy with my little eye, SS, 6a
        • The rail, SS, 5
        • The wall, SS, 4


Sunday 19 June 2022

Bouldering in Scalpsie Bay - Isle of Bute (mini-topo)

 

 

1. Crackers, 4

2. Shark nails, 4

 

3. The rail left (sit-start), 5

4. The rail right (sit-start), 5

5. The P3 wall, 3

 

6. Hidden, 7a+



Wednesday 11 May 2022

Hummell Rocks - Gullane Bouldering update VI

 

Àrd-ealain (crimp variation) , 7a 


Joey the lips, 6a

 The sand level has slightly dropped again since the picture above was taken. So here are the revised grades revised as of April 2022

  • Green: An t-sliseag, 6b
  • Red: Shit-Start, 6b
  • Blue: Àrd-ealain, 7a
  • Purple: Overhang Lip Traverse, 6b at the moment.

Wednesday 27 April 2022

Bouldering in Dunagoil mini-topo II

 

Boom! 6a.


Don't slap, it's sharp, 6b.

 

 To be or not to be precise, 7a.


Am bàl dòrnach, 5. 

 

It's not how you fall, it's how you land, 6b.

 

The seamstress low-start, 7a/7a+?

 

Coup de maître, 6a (probably my favourite problem at Dunagoil)