Andrew Paul

October 3, 2023

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Andrew Paul

October 3, 2023

FOR EVERY BOOKING MADE IN OCTOBER, WE’LL DONATE 5% TO BREAST CANCER NOW.

You may wonder why we are doing this. In October 2018, at the age of 31, my partner was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer that had spread to her lymph nodes…. read more…

Andrew Paul

March 24, 2023

Chasing Snow - Part 1

Andrew Paul

March 24, 2023

Part 1 of my 3 week trip, chasing snow in Scotland in an effort to work towards my Winter Mountain Leader qualification as well as winter climb. Find out what I got up to and a couple of useful Tips / thoughts / lessons at the end to help on your adventures…

Andrew Paul

September 13, 2022

Walking

A Weekend in Glencoe

Andrew Paul

September 13, 2022

Walking

A few weeks ago saw the first of our Guided walking weekends offering 3 separate walks in this case around Glencoe. The idea being; come along to 1, 2 or 3 of the days as you fancied, with potential to reduce the overall travel for both clients and myself.

Andrew Paul

April 25, 2022

Climbing

Indoor Dry Tooling

Andrew Paul

April 25, 2022

Climbing

I wrote this a while back pre-winter season about a Scottish Dry-Tooling Club but it sat un-posted and with winter coming to an end and wishing you could be using axes still it reminded me of this article and I wonder if the event helped me in the season?

Andrew Paul

September 26, 2020

Rock Climbing

Perseverance

Andrew Paul

September 26, 2020

Rock Climbing

Yesterday was a big day for me: I attempted to climb my first E1 grade climb. To many this will not seem like much but for me it was huge.

I’m not a natural climber…

Andrew Paul

August 4, 2020

Wildcamping, Scrambling, Climbing

Post Lockdown: Time to Return to the Mountains

Andrew Paul

August 4, 2020

Wildcamping, Scrambling, Climbing

Post Lockdown: Time to Return to the Mountains

Read about how we spent our first post lockdown trip in the Cairngorm National Park: Wildcamping, climbing Fingers Ridge and much more…

Andrew Paul

May 21, 2020

Walking

Ben Ledi

Andrew Paul

May 21, 2020

Walking

This blog post is meant as a reminder to always be prepared, even when the mountain is considered ‘easy’. Read about our hike up Ben Ledi in winter.

Andrew Paul

April 3, 2020

Walking

Winter Traverse of the Lawers Range – Part 2

Andrew Paul

April 3, 2020

Walking

Winter Traverse of the Lawers Range – Part 2

Day 2 of the two day walk across the Lawers Range

Andrew Paul

February 22, 2020

Walking

Lawers Range Traverse - Part 1

Andrew Paul

February 22, 2020

Walking

A two day walk across the Lawers Range

With winter always being about keeping a close eye on the weather and being flexible with your plans, a friend and I had hoped to do some winter climbing but were now onto, about, Plan F in our preparations.