Wow, it’s been awhile since I’ve put anything up on here, I just haven’t really felt like put anything up. But I’ve had a big change of late and thought I’d write about it.
The change is I’ve now moved out of Edinburgh and left Alien Rock. I’ve moved to Fort William and am now working in the new climbing wall Three Wise Monkeys.
I had been in Edinburgh for almost 10 years moving over for uni and then working at Alien for just over 8 years. I needed a change, a job popped up at the new wall in Fort William and I thought I’d apply to see what happened. I’d wanted to move north or south to get closer to the hills, get climbing, walking, skiing more often and get back into some paddle sports.
View of the Ben near my new home
After a long wait there was an epic interview involving a train to Fort William and an early start back to Glasgow with the group interviews starting on the 7 o’clock train to Glasgow, a group climbing session in TCA, and then back through to Edinburgh.
A week later I got a job! I was so happy and I moved up at the end March to help get the wall ready with routes, tidying up, painting and staff training. It was a very full-on month before the opening day on the 4th May.
New rope wall
I’ve been up here for just over 2 months now and am really enjoying it. I’m missing people in Edinburgh, but I’ve been getting back into canoeing, getting climbing lots and soloed Tower Ridge and summited onto the Ben for the first time, super psyched for more 🙂
Hopefully you’ll all come back to visit my site