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A blog to help people plan their winter days with a framework to have safer and more enjoyable days in the winter months.

After your boots, an ice axe is possibly the single most useful piece of kit for winter walking. Use it alone, or with the addition of crampons, for a secure day out in winter. This article looks at how to choose it and then how to use it, so that you can discover some of the great places the ice axe can take you. The Orgins of the Ice Axe The predecessor of the ice axe was the alpenstock, a long wooden pole with an iron spike tip, used by shepherds for travel on snowfields a

Sitting by the fire with a mug of hot tea, watching the leaves turn red and gold outside, I get great pleasure from flicking through my...

The transition from summer rock climbing into winter is best prepared for in advance. Dusting off your B3 boots, ice axes and crampons,...

You may be relatively new to winter walking or an expert winter climber, but avalanche awareness applies to us all and unfortunately, I don't think we can ever sit back and say we have it all sorted. It needs constant awareness and practise both at home and in the mountains. I hope if you are reading this, you have managed to get some previous avalanche training and have been made aware of the Be Avalanche Aware process. If not get yourself online to find out more, or downlo

Keeping our hands warm in winter is a common topic of conversation and an area of confusion for some. The idea of needing the most expensive gloves on the market, or buying the thickest pair possible, is not necessarily the only way to go about keeping your hands warmer. I hope to share with you some tried and tested top tips. Warm heart, warm hands and a big smile! Work from the Inside out I know we said we were talking about hands, but one of the biggest ways to keep our e

Easterly winds were forecast, dragging frigid air from Serbia – a bone-chilling -30°C to be precise. The dry air bit sharply with every...

Braeriach - 'Brindled upland' Sgor an Lochain Uaine (Angels Peak) - 'peak of the small green loch' Cairn Toul (Carn an t-Sabhail) - 'the hill of the barn' The Devil's Point (Bod an Deamhain) - 'penis of the demon' I've wanted to complete this round of Munros in winter in a day for a long time, so with the day off and a good forecast what was I waiting for? I gave a few folks a call and asked if they fancied a big day on the hill, promised with a late finish! Liam was on boa