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Pete runs courses throughout the year, mainly instructor training and assessment courses such as CWA, CWLA, SPA and ML. He also runs winter courses and dry tooling courses.

Extreme Dream climbing wall in Aviemore is a very user-friendly place to train. They also have their own range of awesome climbing holds.

Petzl, via their UK distributor Lyon Equipment, make the superb Nomic ice axe, the most poplar drytooling axe around.


DB mountainsport are great to deal with and have Edelrid on their books. That means that they sell the lightweight and very comfortable Katana Pro drytooling axe, as well as lots of other goodies.


Black Diamond manufacture a variety of gear, in particular a really good pair of drytooling gloves caled the 'Deviant' (don't Google it!).

Cicerone Press publish a very good indoor climbing book (by strange coincidence by Pete Hill!), that covers drytooling as well as a variety of indoor climbing skills for novices as well as instructors.

David and Charles publish the superb "Complete Guide to Climbing and Mountaineering" by Pete, which has a drytooling section.


The Scottish Tooling Series has been going for a number of years, and for 2010 it is being co-ordinated by Pete. For its independant website and full details about the series


The Schmoolz D10 indoor climbing tool is an excellent piece of kit, allowing you to climb on an indoor wall without trashing it and whilst still having a very good workout, along with lots of fun! Recommended.