timparkin
56 year old 6' unathletic bloke takes up climbing at the start of 2018 and gets addicted.Location
Ballachulish
Best Climbing Experience
Finishing a climb on the extinct volcano in Ardnamurchan and seeing a White Tailed Sea Eagle fly past about 100ft up closely followed by two Golden Eagle. Old Man of Hoy, a last minute overnight trip and watching the sun setting through the crack between the two towers, abbing down in the dark and finishing a bottle of whisky in the Bothy. Seconding Plague of Blazes with Aidan, 3 grades harder than my hardest climb at the time. Scrambling up Lagangarbh and down Great Gully during lockdown and seeing a pair of Golden Eagles nesting above us. Taking the indirect route up Garadh Gully for my first ice climbing. Spindrift pouring down Finnisgaig Falls as we top out (Smoking the White Owl).
Favourite Climbing-Related Discussion Topic
Classic climbs in the Highlands..
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Personal Webpage
http://www.timparkin.net
Interests Outside Climbing
Photography
About My Photography
Large format, digital, mostly landscape.
Photo Gallery
Quick trip up Beinn a'Chrulaiste for sunrise on the 23rd
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Taken before I started climbing, I don't know which crags theses are. Try this zoomed view https://bit.ly/2pijkvA
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Big pano of the view
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Kestrel Crack, Polney - Cameron Wood at the flake (close up)
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Some nice moves for a VDiff
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Looking down Hidden Gully
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First HS Lead
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First pitch with as much gear as I could find, big step over and delicate padding from the start
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