Guided coasteering, gorge walking and days on the Cuillin, booked in advance; they choose the spot on the day and tell you where to meet.
There is nowhere to turn up to.
You book a session, and once it is confirmed they send you a meeting time and place, chosen on the day for the weather and for what you want out of it. Gorge walking usually gathers at the Sligachan hotel. Coasteering is usually somewhere north of Staffin.
For the water they hand you a five millimetre wetsuit, rash vest, buoyancy aid, helmet, gloves and socks, so all you bring is yourself and a towel. Some swimming and moderate fitness will do it; the jumps are optional and you can have the whole session without doing one. For the hill you bring boots and waterproofs, though they will lend boots, helmets and harnesses for the Cuillin.
John and Sarah live on the island. Between sessions they run a race with no prize, a course for islanders new to the hills, and a tool library for repairing Cuillin paths.
Arrives at 5am every day.
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Their own project list records safety and guiding on the Cuillin for The Ridge in 2015, the film of MacAskill riding the ridge on a bike, and again in 2019 for Danny Daycare. Their note on the second one: no children were harmed.
They built it for islanders rather than visitors, and it has put more than forty people into the hills under their own steam, most of them women. It teaches navigation, hill skills, mountaineering ropework and a little rock climbing.
Their coasteering page invites you to find your inner Selkie, and then footnotes it for you: a creature of Hebridean folklore that shifts between seal and human by taking off or putting on its sealskin.
The Bongly, which they started in 2019, links Skye's major landmarks with bike rides between them on one of the shortest days of the year. They describe it as environmentally conscious, financially accessible and very hard, with nothing to win.
Rock Action has run since 2021. They raised the money, assembled the tools into a lending library and put together a volunteer group to repair the worst of the path erosion on the Cuillin, which is ground they make their living on.
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What is on on SkyeNowhere fixed. Sessions are chosen on the day for the weather and what you want, and the meeting point comes with the booking. Gorge walking usually meets at the Sligachan hotel, at the head of Glen Sligachan; coasteering is usually somewhere north of Staffin.
SligachanWhere the gorge walking usually meets, at the head of the glen.Under a mile 1 min by road
Cuillin BreweryThe small brewery at the Sligachan Hotel, at the foot of the Cuillin, with its ales poured next door in Seumas' Bar.Under a mile 1 min by road
Glen SligachanThe glen between the two Cuillin, walked from the same spot.Under a mile 2 min by road
Cuillin MountainsThe ridge the mountain days are spent on.14 miles 18 min by road
An Corran BeachThe Staffin shore, with dinosaur prints at low tide.27 miles 39 min by road
The QuiraingThe landslip on Trotternish, near where the coasteering tends to be.30 miles 43 min by roadPlaces to stay near the day, and when each is next free.
Sligachan Campsite
Sligachan Blackhouses
Raasay House Hotel
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