The sky's the limit!

After some gentle persuasion from Isi, our bar supervisor, 8 brave Clachaig staff were dragged kicking & screaming from their beds at 8am on Thursday morning to take advantage of an open invitation from the Ice factor to try out their facilities - free of charge.
With representatives from housekeeping, reception and bar - many of whom had never climbed before - this was a great chance for them to bond as a team. We even discovered that due to working opposite shifts some hadn’t met before!

Slightly bleary-eyed, they rocked up at the Ice factor, were kitted-up, signed-in and enjoyed a warm-up on the auto-belays. These mechanisms allow you to climb without having someone to hold your rope and are a great way to get beginners onto the wall straight away.


Following a brief lesson in how to tie in and belay, the real climbing began, supervised by some of our more experienced staff. Some of the group achieved things they didn’t think were possible and many giggles were had by all! A brief play in the bouldering wall and a coffee (tho' not at the same time!) finished off the morning nicely.


Needless to say they are all planning another trip, although unfortunately they’ll have to open their wallets this time!

Thanks to Tracy & all at The Ice Factor for making this possible.

Fundraising Target Reached

A huge thank you from Glencoe Primary School to all of you who generously gave a pound or 2, or 3, when harassed into buying a raffle ticket for our 'good cause'.

We've recently heard from the head teacher advising us that they've now reached their target of £3000 required for a Balance Trail at the school. Of this, Clachaig customers raised £1151.90.


Hopefully, we'll be able to bring you some photos in due course of real thing in situ at the school.

And we've already identified the next project and with FebruaryFest in full swing have managed to raise some funds to get a head start. This time we're hoping to raise at least £1000 for playground improvements at Ballachulish Primary School. The playground has just been resurfaced and funds are required to buy play equipment.