Culra Bothy

A video by my mate Neil of our recent outing...



Culra Bothy is basic but clean, comfortable, water and wind tight, and has a warm welcoming atmosphere about it.  Situated in a stunning location it makes an excellent starting point for Ben Alder and other Munros.


Dom

The First Great Climb

A few months ago I worked on 'The First Great Climb' by Triple Echo Productions

Theres still a couple of days to watch this on iPlayer - BBC

The story - "Almost 140 years ago, three men crossed from the Hebridean island of Lewis to the north west coast of Scotland. Their aim was audacious: to be the first people to stand on the top of the Great Stack of Handa, an isolated pillar of rock. Failure would have meant certain death. Success, won against all the odds, gave birth to a new sport.

Using the equipment and clothing of the time, three of Scotland's best climbers attempt to emulate a feat that is now almost forgotten."

The Great Stack of Handa - Dom Scott/Triple Echo

The Long Hope

'The Long Hope' film by Hotaches.

Awesome looking film.

The Great Climb - BAFTA

The Great Climb programme, which I was lucky enough to be part of has won a Scottish BAFTA for live event coverage.

Sron Uladail

Well done to all involved and a big congratulations to the Triple Echo Productions team who produced the programme for the BBC - well deserved indeed.  After the frustrations of the first attempt Triple Echo were brave to attempt a live climb again, this time it succeeded, and its great to see their efforts recognised.


You can buy the DVD from Mountain-Media by clicking here

Steep Edge

A home for all adventure and mountain sport films - historical and modern classics..

Steep Edge

Great site.

Fig 4

Mike Jowitt demonstrating the figure of 4 technique (pretty blooming well!) at the Transition Extreme, Scottish Tooling Series 2010 competition...

The 2011 dates are available here

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Not the West Highland Way..

The West Highland Way is just one of Scotland's many long distance walks.  If you fancy something a bit different, with the most incredible scenery and amazing history, then why not take a look at one of these...

• The Sutherland Trail - 77 miles between Lochinver and Tongue.  Hills climbed include Suliven, Foinaven and Ben Loyal

A view from Foinaven - Sutherland

• The Sky Trail - 75 miles from Rubha Hunish at the very top of the Trotternish Peninsula on the Isle of Skye to Broadford in the South of the island.  The journey will take you along the Trotternish ridge to the Quiraing and the Storr, through Portree to the Braes, Sligachan and the Cuillin mountains, then onwards to Loch Coruisk, Bla Bheinn and the lost villages of Boreraig and Suisnish.

Filming Cameron - Bla Bheinn, Skye

The Storr - Skye

Both walks are available as Books and DVD's from Mountain Media.

A few years ago I filmed both trails for the Adventure Show, which was broadcast on BBC Scotland - both produced by Triple Echo.  Check out the previews below.

Sutherland - The Empty Lands Preview from mountainmedia on Vimeo.


The Sky Trail from mountainmedia on Vimeo.


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Scotland video

See if you can spot me in this 3 minute video tour of Scotland!





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Strathpuffer 24

Here's a little promo for you, which gives a good flavour of the 2011 Strathpuffer 24 hour mountain bike endurance race, which we filmed back in mid January. 
Catch The Adventure Show at 7pm on 8th March BBC2 Scotland.

The Adventure Show can also be seen south of the border throughout the UK on Sky Digital Channel 990. Many episodes are also shown on the BBC's iPlayer.

Very bright lights

When I say bright I mean exactly that!!  900 lumens to be precise!
If you like the idea of mountain biking at night (at this time of year there aint much option!) but cant make yourself spend the £200 to £300 it seems to take to get good lights, then check out this.....

Helmet mount option - pic from brightbikelights.com

I recently bought this 900 lumen light (Magicshine mj-808) that can be mounted on a helmet, handle bar or can even be used as a traditional head torch.  The whole package cost me well under £100.  If that sounds a lot then have a look on a well known 'Edinburgh' bike shops website and you'll see a 700 lumen light for £299...
There is also the option of a 1400 lumen light for under £100 too!  I bought the 900 lumen so I can use it for running.
My plan is to buy two of these then it'll all be AWESOME..

You can buy from the first link for about £85 and get them in a couple of days or you can buy them considerably cheaper from the second link, but will have to wait a few weeks for delivery.

brightbikelights.com

dealextreme.com

Enjoy!

(Thanks Al..)

GoPro LCD BacPac



Not posted anything in a while – however this is quite exciting!

A screen for the Go Pro camera is everything it was missing. Having mucked up some mountain bike footage at the weekend cos I couldn’t see what I was filming, this will solve all those badly framed shots – well hopefully!
Not available here yet – hopefully sometime soon though.

Cant wait!

More info @ gopro.com