I’m Murray, this is my corner of the internet. I wanted something slightly less ephemeral than social media to record some of my days out, and as I’ve always enjoyed reading blogs about routes I aspire to climb, I hope this page might inspire you in the same way.
Latest Posts
-
The Godfather
11th March 2023, Coire Nan Fhamhair, Beinn Bhan The Godfather has some of the richest history of all modern winter climbs in Scotland. All these legends were swirling around up there when Rob and I dared to finally give it a try last winter, and so to set the scene I’d like to re-tell some…
-
Hung, Drawn, and Quartered
8th March 2023, Am Basteir We’ve reached the penultimate route of last winter now, which occurred on another one of those “best day of the winter” days. This being on Wednesday, I secured yet another last minute day off from my long-suffering manager and plans were set in motion! Iain and I headed over from…
-
Rumplestiltskin
5th March 2023, Carn Etchachan: I wanted to put this short post up to rave about the quality of a little-known route called Rumplestilskin on the Carn Etchachan upper tier, which Rob and I headed up to one Sunday. It was Rob’s 10th successive day out winter climbing, on a run which we’d started on…
Murray's climbing blog 