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Square Face – Garbh Choire of Beinn a’Bhuird – VDiff

Square Face on Beinn a’Bhuird has all the attributes of a great mountain rock route and adventure; it’s remote, in an outstanding setting, has good quality rock and most importantly features great climbing. You do need a full range of mountaineering skills for the route as you may need to navigate in or out of [...]

Climbing equipment review – Marmot ROM Jacket

One word sums up the Marmot ROM jacket – ‘versatile’! I have now worn the ROM jacket for warm winter days as an outer layer, as a mid layer in winter on colder days, for mountain multi pitch rock routes in the summer and for ski touring in the Alps. ROM stands for range of [...]