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sungam
May 9, 2011, 12:14 PM
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Just wondering what people form outside the UK think of climbing in Scotland. What comes to mind? Routes/styles/areas/etc..
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granite_grrl
May 9, 2011, 12:22 PM
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Sheep.
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May 9, 2011, 12:22 PM
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rainy and wet.
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ncrockclimber
May 9, 2011, 12:30 PM
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Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
(This post was edited by ncrockclimber on May 9, 2011, 12:31 PM)
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binrat
May 9, 2011, 12:41 PM
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Classic bold trad routes in rugged areas unlike most crags in North America.
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sungam
May 9, 2011, 12:44 PM
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granite_grrl wrote: sungam wrote: granite_grrl wrote: Sheep. Better then goats  I think we told you not to sleep in the goat field. Just saying.
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sbaclimber
May 9, 2011, 12:51 PM
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Ice....but not the good kind. I mean frozen clumps of grass. 
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edge
May 9, 2011, 1:00 PM
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sungam wrote: Just wondering what people form outside the UK think of climbing in Scotland. What comes to mind? Routes/styles/areas/etc..
As a 15 year old who was afraid of heights, my first climbing "idol" was Dougal Haston. I read everything I could find about his exploits and was particularly fond of Robin Smith's account "The Bat And The Wicked" about their route on the Carn Dearg Buttress of Ben Nevis.
Since then my mental image of Scottish climbing is one of hard, run-out adventure climbing on semi-alpine terrain, sometimes on verglassed and rime coated faces.
Something like these:
I'll also throw in Hammish MacInnes, pterodactyls, heather, and peat bogs as images.
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skiclimb
May 9, 2011, 1:48 PM
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Ben Nevis
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ceebo
May 9, 2011, 2:09 PM
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4 things i think of.
1st is the crazy fucker billy, reminding us what a MAN is.
2nd, the movie brave heart, and how inaccurate it is... (why to this day do we need to be lied to just to make things more interesting?o0)
3rd, toilets you can swim in.
4th... boyle, both of them..
Im sure climbing comes in around this point 
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olderic
May 9, 2011, 2:30 PM
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The Ben
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amyas
May 9, 2011, 2:47 PM
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Ben Nevis, the guy that works the climbing section in the Edmonton MEC, and being scared as shit the whole trip if i ever make it there
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donald949
May 9, 2011, 3:56 PM
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sungam wrote: Just wondering what people form outside the UK think of climbing in Scotland. What comes to mind? Routes/styles/areas/etc..
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rtwilli4
May 9, 2011, 4:18 PM
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ncrockclimber wrote: Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
I hope at least one other person here knows where that's from!
sungam, I think of people swinging axes into frozen dirt.
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TarHeelEMT
May 9, 2011, 4:19 PM
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Bold, classic, and relatively low altitude alpine climbs with terrible weather.
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shockabuku
May 9, 2011, 5:10 PM
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This guy:
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Colinhoglund
May 9, 2011, 5:26 PM
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What do I think of? Well lets see . . .
Horrible weather
Shitty gear
Awesome climbing
And Men with big balls
And lastly the section on Ben Nevis from On Sight comes to mind. Looks like epic climbing! Perhaps I'll come over and scare my self silly someday.
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jeepnphreak
May 9, 2011, 5:49 PM
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sungam wrote: Just wondering what people form outside the UK think of climbing in Scotland. What comes to mind? Routes/styles/areas/etc..
If you are wearing a Kilt I am not belaying you!
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kachoong
May 9, 2011, 5:56 PM
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sungam wrote: Just wondering what people form outside the UK think of climbing in Scotland. What comes to mind? Routes/styles/areas/etc..
Smears of ice, whiteouts, sea stacks and calloused ball sacks.
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potreroed
May 9, 2011, 6:00 PM
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Mixed routes in full conditions.
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blueeyedclimber
May 9, 2011, 6:47 PM
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sungam wrote: Just wondering what people form outside the UK think of climbing in Scotland. What comes to mind? Routes/styles/areas/etc..
There's climbing in Scotland?
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climbingtrash
May 9, 2011, 8:26 PM
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Golfing in kilts. Can't say I even knew there was climbing in Scotland.
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TradEddie
May 10, 2011, 12:43 AM
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The Bat.
Midges.
Miserable weather.
But I'm Irish, we've got two of those three.
TE
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