Yesterday was yet another fantastic day out climbing with the QuickDraw Club kids. Last time (PHOTOS HERE) I was with them we headed to a Northumbrian crag called Hepburn for a spot of bouldering, however, this time we headed north of Edinburgh to the popular sport venue of Benny Beg. The Quartz/Dolerite crag situated near Crieff is a brilliant venue for a day out climbing quality, low-grade sport routes. You could literally come here and climb about 30+ routes in a day if you really wanted to. Apparently it is also rarely wet and even if it was to start raining, the...

Hey Guys For all those gracing the Malham catwalk last weekend you will have noticed a slightly higher concentration of youth climbers pulling on the harsh polished limestone routes than usual. Malham on the first day... This was because the MCofS had organised an Elite Coaching day at Malham and I was down there coaching. We had two days climbing altogether (and an evening for myself and Nat on Friday) and in that time every kid did seriously well. The team included: Angus Davidson (Team Member)   William Bosi (Team Member)   Alex Waterhouse (Team Member)   Eleanor Hopkins (Team Member)   Rebecca...

Hey Guys Apologise for not blogging at all this past wee while. I have been mega busy with work recently and haven't had a spare moment to write anything up. For the past few weeks, my life has been building up to the next 3-4 months of work/trips. I had been training like a demon in Ratho, building my strength and power back up since Ceuse for the brief periods of climbing I will get in between coaching work in Yorkshire. I had been focussing solely on recruiting my contact strength that I had lost climbing longer routes in France so...