Newsletter, August 2025
- Dan Goodwin
- Aug 9
- 3 min read
Hi From Jo and Dan at Highland Guides
Thanks to all of you for joining us out on courses and guided days out so far it’s been a pleasure tying in with so many of you. Hope everyone’s been enjoying what has turned out to be a lovely summer for the most part in the Highlands. Off the back of some moodier weather in the mountains we thought we would take some time to write a line with an update of things we’ve been up to and upcoming events to look out for.
Our Spring Summer Season kicked off early this year with some great early conditions to be
found. After a busy period of climbing courses in the highlands and Cuillin ridge action at the
start of the summer Dan and I headed out to East Africa at the end of June to work on some
rock climbing courses. It’s always great for us to return to Kenya there’s a life time of exploringand new crags to find and it’s a crazy place to go rock climbing especially when for many on our courses it’s the first real taste of outdoor climbing. You can read more about that on Dans blog. Source of the Rive Nile and the Holy Stones
After feeling refreshed from some equatorial sun we’re back at base in Inverness and have
been making the most of all the local cragging. There's usually some sunny weather to be found in Inverness and we’re still finding new spots to visit on the doorstep. In the meantime Dan’s been busy ticking away at Highland Guides admin finishing the website refresh and plotting some of our winter events so look out for those! On the hill we’ve had teams out munro bagging and ridge traversing on Skye, learning rock climbing skills around Inverness and the Cairngorms and we’ve even had teams climbing in the lake district and bagging 3000s in Ireland.
Upcoming Events
We offer largely a bespoke range of courses and days however in the calendar we also have
some open courses and events. September Austrian Alpine Club Courses (Open to all with a subsidised place offered to club members on application through the AAC)
Skye Scrambles 7/8/9 September £280pp
Intro rock climbing Glen Nevis 7/8 September £155pp
October (ROCKTOBER)
Intro or Advanced/learn to lead courses running every weekend in October
Location Inverness or within an hours drive of £300pp for weekend Skye guiding open until end of Autumn Winter 25/26, Our Winter season can run as early as November through until April here are some of our open weekends Austrian Alpine Winter Week- Glencoe TBC
Scottish Winter Skills Weekends every weekend from 3rd January £200pp for the weekend
Cairngorms. We’re getting excited already for winter which can be our busiest time of year. A more definitive list of winter courses will follow very soon.
If dates don’t suit please get in touch and we can always make something work for you.
We would like to offer any of our returning customers a 20% discount on any winter bookings
made before the end of September just quote “HGWINTER20” in the booking form.
Many thanks and look forward to seeing you on the hill again soon
Jo and Dan
