Really good and well protected route.
I led Alice and Max up this as their first trad climb. I did quite alot of teaching on the ground, then got Max to belay Jack up a climb whilst i tailed and later got Alice to tail with me backing them both. This gave me the opportunity to teach them both about communication, belaying and route finding.
What i covered on the ground:
- gow to clip gear
-belaying
- climbing communication
- lead belaying
i then led the route and had both alice and Max to belay me and used jack to oversee them both, as the route unfortunately was out of sight of seeing them both. however Jack was jugging up a seperate line to take photos of the two and I had spoken to Jack to help either of them in any issues with gear removing.
I have spent alot of time with them both and knew they would enjoy the challenge, due to the crag beig so busy was another reason i chose this route but was happy with my justifications.
It went really well, i then set up a group abseil to give them a feel of abseiling but having a safety rope that i controlled.
Area :
Highland Outcrops: Creag Dubh and Laggan to Dalwhinnie
The area west of Fort William and south of the A86 road to Kingussie includes some well known and popular climbing grounds, notably Binnein Shuas. Although arguably more accurately placed in the Speyside section, this DLOG area also includes Creag Dubh at Newtonmore, with the boundary between the two sections made at Kingussie. Further east, and approached from Dalwhinnie, the fine Dirc Mor has several substantial climbs in the middle to upper grades in an interesting geological feature.
