The newsletter of the MCofS is sent to all members. It currently comes in the form of an A4 colour magazine called The Scottish Mountaineer. The text from issues 1-10 is indexed below. The index for issues 11- 20 is here. and issue 21 to current is here You can also read the text from earlier newsletters. and there is a seperate list of book reviews. Use this box to search the newsletter archive, or the whole website: newsletters whole site powered by FreeFind

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THE SCOTTISH MOUNTAINEER Issue 10 December 2001 COMMENT The Balance Between Risk & Challenge by Bob Sharp EXECUTIVE NEWS Winter Climbing by Kevin Howett Hut News by John Leftley ACT to conserve mountain freedom Job Vacancy - Mountain Safety Officer Mountaineering Services Established Stepping Outside the Circle by Lorraine Nicholson FEATURES An Awfully Long Way Up by Emma Alsford A bheil ùidh agad anns a' Ghàidhlig? By Donald Morris The Eiger through a lens by Scott Muir Scottish Disabled Ramblers - promoting access for all by Lorraine Nicholson Munro-bagging By Cathy Whitfield SAFETY and TRAINING Winter Skills Courses - Glenmore Lodge Water Hazards Video Winter Experience &anp; Clachaig Lectures 2002 Mountain Safety Adviser leaves Virtually Hillwalking ACCESS and CONSERVATION Access Legislation - Update by Mike Dales Proposed Shieldaig Hydro Scheme - Update 2002 - International Year of Mountains by Andy Macpherson OTHER NEWS Avertical World A Medal For Malcolm By Bob Aitken World's highest hotel to be built on Everest Mad Mountain Biker mows down Cross Dressed Trekker in Annapurnas High Atlas Traverse Book Loose Scree Outward Bound Charity Challenge The Climbing Calendar 2002 Royal Scottish Geographical Society Lectures Scottish Winter Climbing Performance Seminar 2002 BIVVI TALK Your letters BOOK REVIEWS A Brief History Of British Mountaineering by Colin Wells Fontainebleau Climbs by Montchausse & Godoffe The Wall by Alexander & Thomas Huber La Palma - Rother Walking Guide by Klaus & Annette Wolfperger Chomolungma Sings the Blues by Ed Douglas top of page THE SCOTTISH MOUNTAINEER Issue 9 September 2001 COMMENT The continuing saga of Foot and Mouth by Kevin Howett EXECUTIVE NEWS 2001 Annual Gathering Report 2001 Mountain Article Competition Winners Developing Mountain Services in the UK By Kevin Howett Expedition Grants Student Projects British Regional Youth Competition Series 2001 FEATURES The quick way off the mountain! by Bob Sharp Ever Been in a Gamow Bag? by Irvine Butterfield Two Views from the Old Man of Hoy 'Autumn Carnival - Glen Nevis' by Linda Beaton 'Kirsty' by Hamish Brown Big Mountains, Big Issues by Kathleen Caskie Foresters Can Be Mountaineers Too by Malcolm Wield & Phil Whitfield SAFETY AND TRAINING Club Safety and Good Practice Weekend 2001 First Aid Course 2001 Winter Skills Training Courses 2001-2002 SMSF Navigation Courses ACCESS AND CONSERVATION Access Legislation & Symposium National Parks Snippits OTHER NEWS The Call of The Corbetts Cold Climbs' Gets Colder New Map for Ben Lawers Events The SMC 'Clerk of the List' changes The Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowships 2002 Mountaincraft course for visually-impaired people BIVI TALK Your letters BOOK REVIEW The Wilderness World of Cameron McNeish by Cameron McNeish top of page THE SCOTTISH MOUNTAINEER Issue 8 June 2001 COMMENT The True Cost of Freedom By John Donohoe EXECUTIVE NEWS Expedition Grant Awards 2001 The MCofS Website Anniversary by Duncan Gray National Rock Climbing Centre, Ratho - Update by Duncan McCallum Climb through History 3rd International Winter Climbing Meet by Kevin Howett  - A Shock to the System by Laubie Laubscher  - Trials and Tribulations of Being a Host by Phil Swainson FEATURES Foot & Mouth - An Epidemic of misinformation by Kevin Howett There's always a first time by Nic Bullivant Hard Winter Climbing within the Arctic Circle by Pete Benson SAFETY AND TRAINING What's Happening by Fran Pothecary Board of Avalanches? By Gary Todd Technical Corner - mobile phones ACCESS AND CONSERVATION Draft Access Legislation by Mike Dales Thick Mist on the Coruisk Cuillins by Alan Blackshaw Snippets OTHER NEWS Helly Hansen Mountain Adventure Award 2001 A New Harvey Map of the Borders 19th Dundee Mountain Film Festival Doug Scott lecture, Pitlochry bunkhouse, SMC Journal, Lost & found BIVI TALK Your letters BOOK REVIEWS Rother walking guide to Mallorca West Cornwall Rock Climbers Guide North Devon and Cornwall by David Hope and Brian Wilkinson Climbing without Compromise by Hermann Buhl top of page THE SCOTTISH MOUNTAINEER Issue 7 March 2001 COMMENT 'Wigle' by Nick Halls EXECUTIVE NEWS Diary of Events Mountain Article Competition 2001 Financial Crisis? by Laura Alexander Annual Gathering & AGM 2001 Corbett Photographic Competition FEATURES A Short Walk on a Long Ridge by Alistair Todd The Funicular Development by Bob Kinnaird 'The Journey' by Lynda Woode Keeping up on the Hill Paths by Alasdair Eckersall Sole-Trading'- NTS need your help! by Paul Johnson GUEST ARTICLE Scottish Rights of Way (& access) Society by Donald Bennet SAFETY & TRAINING NEWS Qualifications for Young People by Kate Ross Qualifications or Experience by Kate Ross ACCESS & CONSERVATION NEWS National Parks Consultations Ben Ledi Developments by Mike Newbury Access Legislation Climbers - Beware of the Sticky Catchfly Funicular Update - New VMP Access & Conservation Snippits OTHER NEWS Himalayan Photo Competition Naismith's Rule New Map for Skye's Trotternish BIVI TALK Your Letters BOOK REVIEWS Trekking and Climbing in Nepal by Steve Razetti Extreme Rock and Ice by Garth Hattingh Winter Climbs in the Cairngorms by Allen Fyffe Fearless on Everest by Julie Summers top of page THE SCOTTISH MOUNTAINEER Issue 6 December 2000 COMMENT Small is Beautiful? by John Donohoe EXECUTIVE NEWS 2001 - 2004 Development Plan By Kevin Howett Diary of Mountaineering Events YOUNG MOUNTAINEERS NEWS BRYCS 2000 Report by Katie McQuade Rockit BRYCS 2001 Scottish Youth Climbing Competitions 2000 / 2001 Mountain Article Competition Expedition Grants Disability Sport Coordinator By Lorraine Nicholson Feeling the fear and doing it anyway by Lorraine Nicholson FEATURES "Getting Back on Top" by Jamie Andrew A Beginners Guide to Peru by Tom Marshall Fit for Winter? by Elaine Gillies Schiehallion - A year of steady progress by Irvine Butterfield SAFETY AND TRAINING NEWS Gear up for Winter By Pete Hill and Stuart Johnston The Scottish Winter Experience Lectures 2001 Clachaig Lectures, Glencoe 2001 Avalanche Education Programme February 2001 Winter Skills Courses ACCESS & CONSERVATION NEWS National Parks Consultations by Mike Dales Lingerbay Superquarry refused Funicular - A most unattractive attraction Access & Conservation updates OTHER NEWS BMC/MCofS International Winter Climbing Meet 2001 Winter Climbing Performance Seminar by George McEwan Mountain Safety and Leadership New Indoor Wall for Perth WinterNet Scotland 2001 BIVY TALK your letters BOOK REVIEWS Everest by Rienhold Messner The Climbers Handbook by Garth Hattingh Interactive Map Explorer CD Rom by Ordnance Survey The Munros CD Rom edited by Donald Bennet High Achiever - The Life and Climbs of Chris Bonington by Jim Curran The Climbing Calendar, Scotland 2001 By Dave Cuthbertson top of page THE SCOTTISH MOUNTAINEER Issue 5 August 2000 COMMENT National Mountain Heritage Centre By John Millar EXECUTIVE NEWS New Headquarters New 3-year Corporate Plan AGM 2000 Round-up All Change in the Office by Kevin Howett Diary of Events 2000 - 2001 Student Projects Mountaineering Huts Seminar Locality Issues by Fern Levy FEATURES What Price Mountains?  - Buying & Selling Land by Kevin Howett  - Ben Nevis By Nick Kempe  - This Land is your Land, This Land is my Land by John Donohoe Artist in Residence at the MCofS by Kevin Howett The Bug by Michael Buddie Gaelic In the Lowlands by Allison Whyte The great divide by Mark Wrightham ACCESS & CONSERVATION NEWS The Cairn Gorm Funicular Visitor Management Plan Access Symposium 2000 Shieldaig Hydro Scheme - Again! Hillphones 2000 An Assault On Wild Land: The Loch Etive Track by Mike Newbury Clachnaben Path Trust By Mike Dales SNIPPETS SAFETY & TRAINING NEWS First Aid Course 2000 Winter Skills Training Courses Water Hazards Video Navigation Courses UK Mountain Training Board News OTHER NEWS Corbetts Photographic Competition Major Rockfall on Lochnagar Torridon Mountains Heritage Weekend Dundee Mountain Film Festival BIVVI TALK Your letters BOOK REVIEWS Rock Climbing in England and Wales by David Simmonite International Mountain Rescue Handbook by Hamish MacInnes Everest The Mountaineering History by Walt Unsworth The Isles of the West by Ian Mitchell Perth Mountaineering Club - Millennium Journal 2000 Shisha Pangma by Doug Scott & Alex MacIntyre Nanda Devi, Exploration and Ascent by Eric Shipton and W H Tilman Scottish Hill Tracks 4th Edition by D.J. Bennet and C. Stone   THE SCOTTISH MOUNTAINEER Issue 4 April 2000 COMMENT Oh no - not the m-word! by John Donohoe EXECUTIVE NEWS The MCofS web site by John Leftley Individual Membership Drive Sponsor a New Member A Climb Through History by Irvine Butterfield Expedition Grant Awards 2000 by Kevin Howett Millennium Mountain Article Competition 2000 Snippits A Showcase of Ability, Student Marketing Project, Club Seminar 1999 Report Huts News by John Leftley FEATURES I can see for miles by Nic Bullivant Thoughts by the Shelterstone By Linda Beaton The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away By Mick James An Idea Whose Time Has Finally Come? by Malcolm Payne ACCESS and CONSERVATION NEWS Freedom to Roam Special Funicular Update A Lyon on the Rampage By Mike Dales Access Legislation - Your Chance to Have a Say The Lore and Law of Scottish Access By Alan Blackshaw SAFETY & TRAINING NEWS Freezing to Death by David Syme Mountain Rescue - Help Yourself and Help Others Information sheet The Scottish Winter Lecture Series 2000 OTHER NEWS Mountain Man Shops Scottish Power supports initiative Grants for young climbers rent-a-hostel BIVVI TALK your letters BOOK REVIEWS The Totem Pole by Paul Pritchard High Exposure by David Breashears Creagh Dhu Climber, The life and times of John Cunningham By Jeff Connor Classic Dolomite Climbs by Anette Kholer and Norbert Memmel The Medical Handbook for Walkers and Climbers by Peter Steele Scotland's Mountains before the Mountaineers by Ian Mitchell top of page

THE SCOTTISH MOUNTAINEER Issue 3 August 1999 COMMENT Today's Youth - Today's Tigers, by Kevin Howett EXECUTIVE NEWS AGM Roundup The 'Rockit' British Regional Youth Competition Series 1999 Membership Drive, SNIPPITS: Club Guidance Seminar, Mountain Article winners, Millennium Climb, Expedition Workshop, Thanks to the old Exec. FEATURES Land Ownership and Recreational Land Use by Andrew Dingwall-Fordyce High Adventure in Sikkim by Lorraine Nicholson SAFETY and TRAINING NEWS Winter Skills Courses 1999/2000, Mountain First Aid Course, Safety Awareness Day - Boots Across Scotland, Mountain Rescue - Help Yourself and Help Others, Navigation Courses ACCESS and CONSERVATION NEWS Funicular - another mound to climb Crag Code Access Symposium 1999, Where to Go in the Great Outdoors, Stalking Activities SNIPPITS: Carnoch Bridge, Sprinter Meets Walker, 1998 Access Symposium Report. OTHER NEWS Borders Bothies Association by David Dixon, Does' Size Matter? By Alistair Lawson, Glen Coe 2000, GPS Millennium Bug LECTURES AND EVENTS Dundee Mountain Film Festival, Kendal Mountain Film Festival, Book Launches : The Magic of the Munros & High Exposure BIVVY TALK Members letters BOOK REVIEWS 'A Right to Roam', '….and one for the crow', 'The Magic of the Munros' top of page THE SCOTTISH MOUNTAINEER Issue 2 May 1999 COMMENT Winter in Focus by Kate Ross EXECUTIVE NEWS Newsletter Feedback by Kevin Howett Annual Gathering & AGM Personal Insurance by Kevin Howett A Climb Through History by Irvine Butterfield FEATURES International Winter Meet by John Donohoe, Phil Swainson & Lorraine McCall Police Wildlife Liaison Work by Alan Stewart, Tayside Police SAFETY and TRAINING NEWS An Introduction by Fran Pothecary Scottish Mountain Safety Forum News by Fran Pothecary Young Navigator of the Year 1999 ACCESS and CONSERVATION NEWS Proposed Cairn Gorm Funicular - The Bank of Scotland is backing a loser. by Mike Dales Major breakthrough in battle against helitourism by Mike Dales Different routes to Access Legislation in Scotland and England by Nick Kempe OTHER NEWS A hound seeking panniers SMC Journal 1999 Change of SAIS / Avalanche Info.line tel. no. Log Your Munros and help the MCofS! Go Wild in The Country - Gore's High Altitude Crew Why Not Try the Corryieyairack Challenge Hut news LECTURES and EVENTS 1999 Highland Festival - 21 May - 5 June The 'Rockit' British Regional Youth Competition Series 1999 Trees for Life Work Weeks Torridon Mountains Heritage Weekend 1999 GUEST ARTICLE High Life - Hugging the Contours by Mark Wrightham BOOK REVIEWS Eric Shipton, Everest & Beyond Walking in the Isle of Arran The Munroists' Companion BIVVI TALK Member's letters page top of page THE SCOTTISH MOUNTAINEER Issue 1 January 1999 COMMENT Its Good to Talk by John Donohoe EXECUTIVE NEWS Balancing the Books by John Millar Bitten by the Bug - Millenium Celebrations by Kevin Howett NEWS SNIPPETS FEATURES What is Winter ? - Winter Ethics by Simon Richardson High Life - The Disgusting World of Sphagnum by Mark Wrightham Enigma by Simon Richardson SAFETY and TRAINING New Mountain Safety Advisor Appointed Winter Experience Lectures 1999 ACCESS and CONSERVATION Access should be protected in Law by Nick Kempe Cairngorms - A no-go area for Mountaineers by Mike Dales and Melanie Nicoll Transport Policy - Your Views Needed by Melanie Nicoll snippets OTHER NEWS Kinlochlewe Heritage Weekend by Lorraine Nicholson A Piece of Cake - COLA Highlights by Irvine Butterfield Peak Performance in Triplicate - Blind Man's Bluff by Ivan Pitchford and Kenny Mackenzie An Outdoor Experience Indoors - The New Interactive TISO Shop by Irvine Butterfield From the Roof of a Bothy to the Roof of Africa - Howard Ashtons big trip by Lorraine Nicholson Winter Image Reports on the NET MCofS First Aid Course - by Heather Bell Lectures and Events BOOK REVIEWS The Cairngorms of Scotland BIVI TALK Your letters top of page earlier newsletters index

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