Saturday 19 June 2010

MLTA Regional group meet









This weekend I have been hosting a meeting of the Scottish Regional Group of the MLTA.- the representative organisation for UK Mountain based National Governing Body Award Holders. On Saturday the 6 people attending decided on a climbing based day and we went to Kingussie Crag. People were working at all levels: from Cath who led her first route to Duncan and Wendell who are preparing for their MIA assessment. Fine weather and a good chance to get a few routes in whilst networking and picking the brains of other people working in the outdoors.
On Sunday we again had 6 people and Rich Parker of BigSky Mountaineering kindly donated his time to join us. Duncan, Mark and I climbed No Blue Skies (VS 4c) in Coire an t Sneachda in a cold northerly wind with a little water on it whilst the other 5 made a careful massed ascent of the classic (and very loose) Finders Ridge (Diff) in their walking boots. A grand day out and hopefully useful for those who attended.

2 comments:

stevewong said...

Hi Alan, looks like it was a great weekend!nice one. Rachael was going to join you but had to come back to Wales, however we would like to congratulate you on hosting a really good event. I'm hoping to come up to Scotland for the last weekend of July, so if there's anything going on that weekend I'll join you.

Alan said...

Cheers Steve- it was very enjoyable. ON the last weekend of July though I will be on my way to Afghanistan all being well!
Al