Cioch Nose
Still up in The North West Highlands, Jake, Mandy and I climbed the Cioch Nose which is near Bealach Na Ba on the road to Applecross. The last time I was here was on motorcycles in June 2016. It was a day of two halves weather wise. Windy and sunny at the and low wind and mist at the end. The routes itself has been on my list for some time. It has 3 pitches of nice climbing (pitch 3 being by far the best) followed by 2 pitches of reasonable climbing before and walk and scramble up the upper tier on rock that seemed to get looser and looser the higher we went The walk back from the top of the climb kept the interest going with a number of down climbs and short scrambles all the way along the ridge. Quite a few other parties on the route today some of whom need to learn a little bit about etiquette at shared belay stances!