eBothy Blog

eBothy links

• eBothy
• eBothy Gallery
• eBothy on YouTube
• My Mountain Leader notes on Google Notebook
• eBothy articles
• Bookmarks on Delicious
• Gaelic astronomy vocabulary

Mountain Leader log books

• Summer walking
• Winter walking
• Snow and ice climbing
• Multi pitch rock climbing
• Leading walking groups
• European walking
• Alpine climbing

Weather

• Mountain Weather Information Service
• Metcheck mountain forecasts
• Accuweather mountain forecasts
• BBC weather charts. Great for making Photoshop composites of pressure/fronts/rain etc.
• BBC Atlantic pressure charts
• Weather charts. The forecast pressure charts are really good.
• BBC weather pages. Detailed control panel for forecasts. Warnings, pressure charts, trends etc. One stop shop
• SevereWx. UK severe weather site
• Scottish Avalanche Information Service
• Traffic Scotland Live-Eye-Views. Great for keeping an eye on weather all over Scotland
• Met Office webcams.
• Glencoe mountain weather forecast
• Nevis Range mountain weather forecast
• Cairngorm (Aviemore) mountain weather forecast
• How to look for snow in the forecast charts

Weather charts

• Now T+0
• Tomorrow T+24
• Tomorrow T+36
• 2 days ahead T+48
• 2 days ahead T+60
• 3 days ahead T+72
• 4 days ahead T+96
• 5 days ahead T+120
• 6 days ahead T+132
• The above charts but animated

International weather

• Mount Washington

Navigation

• Grid magnetic angle calculator. Useful if you’re using digital maps where you don’t know the variation for an area. You have to use a 1 metre resolution to get best results, e.g. NH 28875 85935
• United Kingdom magnetic survey. Has a map of magnetic variation for the UK.
• The Navigators’ Dozen
• Navigation on Ben Nevis

Safety

• Self arrest video from the MCofS

Backpacking

• Expedition Foods freeze dried meals. These are superb. I had porridge and strawberries for breakfast at the side of Loch Etchachan on my ML assessment.
• Turmat freeze dried meals. These are absolutely brilliant. Was glad of the pasta provence on a foul and wild night on my ML assessment.

Mountain Guiding

• Stravaiger guiding – me! I’m a qualified ML(S) and can lead groups in the mountains of the UK. My ML logbook pages are here. You can email me at guiding@stravaiger.com
• Mountain Leader Training Association
• Holiday Fellowship leaders
• Skye Guides – ML(S) doesn’t cover me for roped ascents. You need an MIA for that. These guys can get you up anything.
• Adventure North East – I can recommend them as I spent a night in a snowhole with Jon!

Mountaineering

• Top Tips From Plas y Brenin Instructors
• Grading Systems : Snow, Ice & Alpine
• Grading Systems : Rock
• Orion Mountaineering Club newsletter archive (my old club, who I still see)

Cycling

• Inverness rent a bike scheme. Registration form

Humour

• A Weegie dinner
• The Complete Weegie Dolmio Collection
• Ned pasta voice over collection
• A Weegie snowball game
• A Weegie Christmas tale
• Glasgow Radio Station
• Glasgow Bus Tour
• Yon Teuchter

Outdoor sites

• Streapadair (superb pictures)
• The Outdoors Station
• Summit post
• Cornwallis images
• Winter Highland forum
  

WordPress goodies

• Flash slideshow widget
• Cairngorm automatic weather station widget
• Flickr random image widget
• Feed reader plugin

Gaelic sites

• The Gaelic Resource Database (GRD)
  
• Hiort
• Faclair na Pàrlamaid
• Seanchas Shlèite (Sleat folklore, Isle of Skye)
• Cuairtean Gaelic songs, stories, history and folklore of the highlands

Isle of Skye

• Comunn Eachdraidh Shléite (Sleat Local History Society)
• Skye Birds
• Skye Ferns
• Wild Skye
• The International Otter Survival Fund
• Skye & Lochalsh Local Biodiversity Action Plan
• Skye & Lochalsh Upland Paths
• Skye Mountain Rescue Team
• Portree to Gairloch ferry

Science sites

• How car engines work
• How motorcyles work
• Related HowStuffWorks articles
• Under the hood
• Stellar evolution part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4
• Mount Washington observatory

Philosophy sites

• The Hermitary. Resources and reflections on hermits and solitude
• Mindfulness

Mountain poetry

• Li Po, poems

Psychology

• 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies

Misc sites

• National library of Scotland online maps
• e-Keltoi
• Maths and Physics tuition
• Velvet Antlers, luxury Scottish hampers
• Rocks Organics, drinks for the hill