Offshore Survival Training

I've recently started a new job working a logging geologist for Baker Hughes Ltd. a Oil Services company. As such I'll be spending quite a bit of time on rigs in the North Sea, and I'll be travelling to and from them by helicopter. This week I've been in Aberdeen doing a Offshore Survival training course at Survivex. The video below gives a bit of an idea of what we've been doing - its been great fun!

A Sense Of Doubt

Fresh off the plane from 10 days in Houston TX with work, and more than a little jet-lagged I headed out to Trowbarrow Quarry with Gaz and Claire to do A Sense of Doubt E3 6a. A project that Gaz has been working on for over a year now. He's top roped it a bunch of times and backed off on lead once or twice but decided that today was the day and he did it. The climbing is on pinches up a steep limestone wall and protected by pegs (which all on my inspection look relatively good) and then finished up the familiar grooves above. Gaz lead it really well and fairly quickly. I seconded it and really enjoyed it, its not often I end up climbing with people that climb harder then me so I really do relish the opportunity. I climbed it clean, but its still out of my reach to lead, but it did make me think that I probably should be climbing more E grades then I am at the moment... Excellent route, if its at your level go and do it.


The photo on the left is a clever vertical panorama that Gaz's fancy Samsung Tablet managed to put together.