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Scottish Tooling Series 2008

The first ever Scottish Tooling Series is going to be a great way to kick off the winter season and put Scotland on the map of competitive tooling competitions. After all, Scotland is the perfect host for such an event considering some of the best talent in the world attribute their success to climbing here.

Five venues have come together to organise 5 one-day competitions over 6 weeks.
Join experts and leading brands for workshops, lectures, demos and challenges. There is something for everyone and some great prizes up for grabs thanks to our sponsors.

EVENTS / HOST VENUES

There will be a series of 5 one day events being held over 6 weeks, at 5 different host venues as follows:
Avertical World - Dundee: Nov 8th
Edinburgh International Climbing Arena:Ratho, - Edinburgh: Nov 15th
Extreme Dream Climbing Wall - Aviemore: Nov 29th
Glenmore Lodge - Aviemore: Dec 6th
Ice Factor - Lochaber: Dec 13th

Each venue will offer a different style of competition. Granite walls with crampons, indoor walls with overhangs, ice and wood obstacles. It has all been designed to welcome the beginner and challenge the expert.

HOW THE SERIES WILL WORK?

Each venue will host a one day Tooling Competition. There will be a winner for each category at each event. At the last event (Ice Factor), the Scottish Series will be won by the person in each category, who has entered a minimum of three competitions and accumulated the most points.

COMPETITION CATEGORY	AGE RANGE
Youth Boys / Girls (separate prizes)	15 and under
Women / Men Sport (separate prizes)	16 - 39
Women / Men Veteran (separate prizes)	40 and over

HOW TO ENTER - Read the information below for each venue

Avertical World - Tayside Nov 8th

TIME: Registration 9:30am - start 10:00am
COST: £15 Adult / £10 Youth
ENTRY: Call to enter or in person
CONTACTS: 01382 201901 / www.averticalworld.co.uk

Edinburgh International Climbing Arena:Ratho - Edinburgh Nov 15th

There will be 3 competition slots lasting 1.5 hours each with up to 10 problems and a maximum of 20 competitors per session.

You will be given a partner on the day that has booked into the same slot. As a pair, you will exchange belaying and climbing. You will have one and a half hours to complete as many of the climbs as you can. The points system will be explained on the day but basically there will be points for completion and extra points for completion on first attempt.
Competition Entry Cost £15 Adults / £10 Youth.

COMPETITION CATEGORY
11.00 - 12.30	Group A
13.00 - 14.30	Group B
15.00 - 16.30	Group C
YOU MUST REGISTER 30 MINS BEFORE YOUR TIME SLOT

Dry Tooling Competition Outline -

The competition will take place on our competition wall - it's long and steep
Some tools will be available courtesy of Glenmore Lodge
There will be approximately 10 problems from the easy and going to very hard 'don''t do this at home' level.
Your belay/climbing partner will be somebody in your time group.
To sign up call 0131 333 6310 and book in advance as we are limited to 20 people per time slot.

EXTREME DREAM - Aviemore Nov 29th

9.00am for registration, kick-off 9.30am. Qualifiers in morning, finals and super finals in afternoon finishing at 5pm-ish. 10routes and problems as qualifiers on extremely varied and challenging terrain. The BIG roof for finals. The entire wall is given over for the competition and will be closed to the public except for spectators. There will be onsite catering and tunes on all day. Cutting edge climbing films will be on during the lunch break/interlude. Competitors should call us on 01479 812466 to register. Entry fee is £15.
For more information visit www.extreme-dream.com or email alan@extreme-dream.com

GLENMORE LODGE - Aviemore Dec 6th

TOOLING COMPETITION
There will be 3 competition slots lasting 1.5 hours each with up to 10 problems and a maximum of 20 competitors per session. You will be given a partner on the day that has booked into the same slot. As a pair, you will exchange belaying and climbing. You will have one and a half hours to complete as many of the climbs as you can. The points system will be explained on the day but basically there will be points for completion and extra points for completion on first attempt.
Competition Entry Cost £10 Adults / £5 Youth

COMPETITION CATEGORY
10.00 - 11.30	Group A
12.00 - 13.30	Group B
14.00 - 15.30	Group C
YOU MUST REGISTER 30 MINS BEFORE YOUR TIME SLOT

Dry Tooling Competition Outline -

The competition will take place outside on our granite towers, which will be specially adapted to stretch the experienced and welcome the novice.
Unlike similar competitions in the UK, you will need to wear crampons but all equipment is available for free from our stores.
There will be approximately 10 problems from the very easy and going to very hard 'don''t do this at home' level.
Your belay/climbing partner will be somebody in your time group.
To sign up call 01479 861256 and book in advance as we are limited to 20 people per time slot.

Prizes in the bar at 4:30pm after an inspirational lecture by Andy Turner 'The Secret of Tooling' one of the most current cutting edge tooling gurus.
Food, drink and films available all day. Spot prizes for the funniest, the strongest, weakest, slowest and fastest and the most entertaining.

TOOLING WORKSHOPS
We will be running 2 x 1.5 hour beginner workshops with Lodge instructors on our indoor tooling wall at 9am and 11am.There will be a master class with Andy Turner at noon. Limited spaces available. Cost £10 adults /£5 youth

Tooling Workshops - Beginner: 9am -10:30am / 11am - 12:30

Workshops will be run by Lodge instructors and are for those of you who want to know how to place an axe when there is no snow. Give it a go.
We can provide all the kit you need including helmets, harnesses, axes etc.
It will take place on our indoor training wall complete with a real tree trunk
After the workshop, go and enter the competition…surprise yourself.
To sign up in advance, call Glenmore Lodge. Places are limited to 6 per workshops to book i.

Tooling Workshop - Master Class: 1pm - 2:30pm

Andy Turner will coach 6 people on our indoor tooling wall. If you really want to get some tops tips from one of our leading tooling experts book early as there are only 6 places.
If you do this workshop but want to enter the competition, you need to be in one of the first two time slots at 10am or noon.

TIME	EVENT	PLACES AVAILABLE	COST
09:00 - 10.:30	Tooling Workshop - Beginners	6 places	Adult £10 Youth £5
10:00 - 11:30	Tooling Competition Group A	20 places	Adult £10 Youth £5
11:00 - 12:30	Tooling Workshop Beginners	6 places	Adult £10 Youth £5
12:00 - 13:30	Tooling Competition Group B	20 places	Adult £10 Youth £5
14:00 - 15:30	Tooling Competition Group C	20 places	FREE
15:45	'The Secret of Tooling' inspirational lecture by Andy Turner
16:30	If there is a tie in points for any catagory, there will be a speed climb on the indoor wall to establish a winner.
17:00	Prize Giving in the bar at Glenmore Lodge. The bar serves meals too and will be the venue for anybody who wants to stay for a pint or two or three..... Scope for some scary climbing videos to get psyched for winter!

BOOK NOW BY CALLING 01479 861256!

ICE FACTOR - Lochaber Dec 13th

Time: Registration 8:30am - 9:00am
Climbing Starts: 9:00am
Morning: Qualifiers on a series mixed problems
Afternoon: Finals, mixed and technical ice routes
Late afternoon: Superfinals, mixed and ice plus speed ice for adult non finalists
Evening: party and music
Cost: £15 Adults / £12 Youth / £5 speed ice
Entry: Registration opens Sept 25th.
Contacts:
- tel: 01855831100
- email: info@ice-factor.co.uk
- web: www.icefactor.co.uk
Guest climber: Dave Macleod