Check out this fine little video of Lee Robinson and Mike Adams raiding Sheigra after driving straight up there after Glen Croe (respect!). Some fine looking problems were done just as the midge season is kicking in. They then scooted back down the road and stomped up to the dam boulders at Loch Sloy, where Mike did a fine-looking 7c+ called Berlin Wall. It appears to be a new line between existing projects, that high heel looks committing! Here's the video, thanks to Mike and Lee for their intrepidity of character.
With the new guide to Glasgow Bouldering forthcoming, and with the last two years spent scouring our local landscapes for vertical diversion, many of us discovered a closer, more nuanced appreciation of climbing and how it helps maintain mental wellbeing as much as physical. The big mountains and wilderness landscapes were for the first time excluded from access and our pandemic taught us all to appreciate the landscapes on our doorstep. Even the urban world has its own small wildernesses and landscapes to immerse ourselves in for a while. For me, the daily walk in lockdown occasionally became a hunt for an esoteric piece of rock spied on the OS map or Google Earth. Rumours of boulders and mythologies of obscure rock were hunted down to help feed a hunger for the vertical. Even Dumbarton Rock was out of range, lying outside of the Glasgow City boundary. It's a venue which famously makes the blood run cold, with fiercely exposed overhanging routes, highball boulder problems and cl...