The Ochils Mountaineering Club

John Bowers & I headed up towards the Cairngorms on Sunday to try Savage Slit. However as we approached Aviemore, we couldn't see the Cairngorms. Having dismissed the notion that someone had stolen them, we summised that it must have been the mist and drizzle!

After a quick coffee stop and second breakfast, we headed up to Huntly's Cave where we had a most enjoyable day climbing Right Hand Groove, Cave Route (strange awkward exposed finish), Slot Direct and Diagonal (committing step round a corner). All good routes and by and large we had the place to ourselves.

We had great fun after the guidebook had fallen out of my pocket onto a ledge on Cave Route. Those who are familiar with the significant overhanging nature of Huntly's Cave may appreciate trying to abseil down and then swing across into the ledge!

Dave S

A very big thank you to everybody who helped me climb the "in pin" , for all the borrowed gear and the help and encouragement to climb

BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED ME CLIMB THE INACCESSIBLE PINNACLE FOR ALL THE GEAR BORROWED,THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND EXPERTISE ON THE DAY AND THE CRAIC AT NIGHT. TRICIA

Dave Simpson wrote:


We had great fun after the guidebook had fallen out of my pocket onto a ledge on Cave Route. Those who are familiar with the significant overhanging nature of Huntly's Cave may appreciate trying to abseil down and then swing across into the ledge!

Dave, would you not have been easier climbing through the crack at the back of the cave to avoid the abseil?
Ben A'an the night?
cheers
jd

You're so cruel ... ok so I couldn't fit through the crack!

You're so cruel ... ok so I couldn't fit through the crack!

I don't think that I could either Dave, nor would I want to! Probably the kind of thing for people wae a "fondness for damp, dank, dark enclosed spaces (corners, chimneys, gullies). If they can fit!
jd