We might be short of snow, but this weekend, a number of top British climbers will be dusting off their ice tools for the first round of the 2010 Scottish Dry Tooling Series (STS) in Glasgow on Saturday 9 October.Dry tooling is the art of climbing on rock but using ice tools inst...

chance to win free guidebooks.The event will take place on Saturday 7 July at the Cotswold Outdoor store in Glagow running from 2-5pm and features three new books - Walking on Uist and Barra by Mike Townsend, Cycling in the Hebrides by Richard Barrett and

Sadly two climbers from Glagow were killed at the weekend afterapparently being avalanched on Beinn Dearg near Ullapool.The pair were reportedly found at the bottom of a route named bythe BBC as Penguin Gully after a search operation

, Eriskay, Barra, Vatersay and Mingulay. Is there a better place name than Benbecula anywhere? Again there are OS maps and colour photos and a price of £14.95.Last but very definitely not least, you may recall our news article last week about the Glagow