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		<title>Momentum</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing any book is a big deal.  Getting twenty odd people to write a book about places and climbing experiences is a really big deal.  Getting twenty odd people to write such a book and peppering it with beautiful, original and high quality crag and climbing action shots is a super big deal.  Fitting it all around work, young families [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigstonecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12932929&amp;post=204&amp;subd=bigstonecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Visual Progress</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things have been somewhat slow moving with the book of late &#8211; it&#8217;s not stalling, exactly, it&#8217;s just not what you would describe as &#8216;marching forwards&#8217;!  I guess it&#8217;s the nature of such things; a labour of love for those involved.  We&#8217;re still making progress with the texts &#8211; Mr Fyffe has being doing some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigstonecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12932929&amp;post=197&amp;subd=bigstonecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Return of The Summer (That Wasn&#8217;t)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Maybe we should all have gone to Sron Ulladale this summer &#8211; all the other mountain crags have been terminally wet.  Until very recently that is.  For those of us only periodically &#8216;lost&#8217; to bouldering and sport climbing (the methamphetamine of contemporary rock climbing?) the last week or so re-opened the possibility of some high and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigstonecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12932929&amp;post=183&amp;subd=bigstonecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Stone Cowboys</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The North Face of Ben Nevis is justifiably famous for it&#8217;s winter climbing. Being Britain’s highest mountain, and being situated on the West Coast , it gets battered by the full force of the Atlantic depressions.  High precipitation and strong winds plaster the cliffs in snow, and rapid freeze-thaw cycles can transform soft unconsolidated snow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigstonecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12932929&amp;post=176&amp;subd=bigstonecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Stones, New Routes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creagan Dubh Loch &#8211; crag of the black lake &#8211; a kilometre long and 300m high, surely the ultimate mecca of Scottish adventure climbing?  If &#8220;what have you done on grit?&#8221; is the calling card of the modern day Headpointer, then &#8220;what have you done on the Dubh Loch&#8221; should be likewise to the modern trad climber.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigstonecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12932929&amp;post=163&amp;subd=bigstonecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skye Magic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not at all surprising the new book will include a variety of Big Stones on Skye.  It&#8217;s arguably the most impressively precipitous of all the inhabited Scottish Islands, with more than its fair share of great crags, classic hard routes and epic tales etched in the history books.  Perhaps centre stage amongst the crags on Skye that will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigstonecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12932929&amp;post=150&amp;subd=bigstonecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Stones of Arran</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 20:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been thinking of ways to keep the blog &#8216;alive&#8217;, but without giving too much away in terms of photos and material.  The book will try to &#8216;make the crag the star&#8217; so what better way to blog about it than to focus on the crags.  So, each blog post for the next while will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigstonecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12932929&amp;post=143&amp;subd=bigstonecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Blog Launched!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We clattered up the gully, humbled by the mute power of the tilting walls, the boulders, the heat; it was idyllic&#8230;we had the crag to ourselves..&#8221; Julian Lines (excerpt from Central Gully Wall, Creagan Dubh Loch) From the moment climbing entered my radar, I&#8217;ve always been inspired by other climbers writing about their adventures.  Not so much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigstonecountry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12932929&amp;post=18&amp;subd=bigstonecountry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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