The Old Man Of Stoer

On Saturday Ruairidh MacKenzie took a group of 6 kids & 6 adult belayers (all who have climbed outdoors with him before) to the Old Man Of Stoer, the trip had been an idea of Ruairidh's for a couple of years.

We all arrived on Friday night and camped at the lighthouse leaving at 10.30 on Saturday morning for the hour walk to The Old Man of Stoer.

If we had listened to the weather forecast the trip would not have gone ahead but Ruairidh assured us that all would be fine and sure enough we could not have had better weather.

low tide was at 12:10 and all the kids were geared up and abseiling down to the ledge to wait for the other 7 climbers already on The Old Man to have their climb before they crossed on a tyrolean.

All 6 kids made it look easy and were all up standing on the top for a group photo before the long abseil back down, scramble back up the cliff and back to the tents for much earned food and celebrations!!

Scottish Youth Climbing Championships 2009
- Results

A massive thanks to all the competitors and thier families/tag-alongs for making the SYCC09 go with such a bang! The standard of youth climbing is phenomenal in Scotland at the moment, and all of the kids who competed should be proud of themselves. Scott and I were tweaking final routes til 1 in the morning trying to account for the raise in standards but they still weren 't hard enough! Please note that all SYCC09 competitors automatically qualify for the Scottish Youth Bouldering Championships, and will recieve invites once a date has been confirmed, probably in the autumn. It looks like another exciting year in prospect with funds secured through the MCofS for further youth development thanks to the working group and its parents. Scott will keep you all posted with more news of this soon.

Without further ado:

8-10 girls

1st Rachel Tennant
2nd Rebecca Kinghorn
3rd Elle Hogarth
4th Amy Ryan
5th Gabriella Stewart
6th Kirsten Taylor
7th Rosie Slater
8th Keri Maclennan

8-10 boys

1st Stephen Dent
2nd Scott Robertson
3rd Jamie Blair
4th Robert Davidson
5th Rory Cargill
6th Henry Kerr
7th Alasdair Darroch
8th George Kerr

11-13 girls

1st Nikki Addison
2nd Rachel Carr
3rd Dawn Longworth
4th Rebecca Drummond
5th Lyndsey Forsyth
6th Sofie Hvide
7th Ishbel Henderson
8th Megan Saunders

11-13 boys

1st Dylan Mackenzie
2nd Angus Davidson
3rd Ruaridh MacAskill
4th Alexander Bosi
5th Jamie Peden
6th Euan King
7th William Bosi
8th Scott Donaldson
9th Joseph MacInnes-Hall

14-16 girls

1st Jaime Davidson
2nd Ellen MacAskill
3rd Abby Niven
4th Christie Macleod
5th Ashley Lawrie
6th Abigail Blunt
7th Ellen Barber
8th Sarah Wardrope
9th Jessie Smith
10th Abi Beautyman

14-16 boys

1st Paul Williamson
2nd Steven Addison
3rd Callum Irvine
4th Alasdair Johnstone
5th Rhys Maslen
6th Calum Forsyth
7th Sam Leakey
8th Scott Grosdanoff
9th Jamie Drummond
10th Andrew Barr

Thanks again from all at Extreme Dream, and hope to see you all pulling hard at the wall, or the crag soon.

Al @Extreme Dream