📍Suilven, North-West Scotland. The most famous of all Assynt Mountains, Suilven rises to 731m straight up from sea level. It is remote, dramatic and awe inspiring. Join an expedition led by Mollie Hughes & Stevie Boyle this September for two nights of wild camping and one incredible summit. 🔹Dates - 27th to 29th September 📸 Jacob Allen Adventure
Ocean Verticals Summer Adventure Camp is in full swing!! This week our awesome group of young adventurers paddle boarded on a private loch, had lunch around the campfire, played games in the woods, tested their aim at Archery and went Coasteering in the sea! All in ONE day!! Our camp is running every Thursday during the summer holidays from 08:30 - 16:30. The camp is designed for young people aged 10-14 to have a full day of adventure each week of their summer holidays! Get signed up 👇www.oceanvertical.com/adventures/summer-adventure-camp
The water visibility for Coasteering has been amazing in East Lothian for the past week! We have been out most days exploring the intertidal zone with our wonderful clients. We have seen countless Sea Anemones, Urchins, Starfish, a few Moon jellyfish and plenty of our inquisitive seal friends. However, most excitingly while out coasteering with Belhaven Hill School pupils yesterday we saw a Minke Whale off of Dunbar! (No video unfortunately, you will just have to believe us!) 🐳 Get booked in for your summer Coasteering session now! 💦
SUP Island Tours with Ocean Vertical
New SUP Island Tour dates added to the diary!
Join us in East Lothian for a unique SUP tour around some of the incredible Islands of the Firth of Forth - Experience wildlife such as Puffins, Gannets, Seals and (if we are lucky) Dolphins...While lead by highly experienced ASI SUP guide.
🔹30th July
🔹27th August
Learn More 👇
www.oceanvertical.com/adventures/paddle-board-sup-island-tour-level-3
What a weekend here in East Lothian! Sunshine, amazing water visibility and some wonderful clients to share our Coasteering sessions with 💦
Coasteering is back!
It is Coasteering season!
We have loved being back in the water here in East Lothian! Get booked in for your summer Coasteering session on the link below 👇
Join us this Friday & Saturday at 2pm 💦
www.oceanvertical.com/adventures/coasteering-scotland
Early Bird discount for winter mountain adventures with OV!
It is time to start planning your winter mountain adventures with Ocean Vertical! 🏔
For the month of November we are offering an early bird booking discount for all of our winter days and courses! Enter code EARLYBIRDWINTER15 at checkout for a 15% discount on all of our winter mountain products. This includes:
🔹Winter Hill Walking Experience Days
🔹Winter Moutnain Experience with Mollie Hughes
🔹2 Day Winter Skills Course
🔹2 Day Introduction to Winter Mountaineering
Get booked in now to make the most of this early bird offer! Discount code avalaible until 30th November 2022! Check out our link in bio ☝
Winter Early Bird discount with Ocean Vertical
It is time to start planning your winter mountain adventures with Ocean Vertical! 🏔
For the month of November we are offering an early bird booking discount for all of our winter days and courses! Enter code EARLYBIRDWINTER15 at checkout for a 15% discount on all of our winter mountain products. This includes:
🔹Winter Hill Walking Experience Days
🔹Winter Moutnain Experience with Mollie Hughes
🔹2 Day Winter Skills Course
🔹2 Day Introduction to Winter Mountaineering
Get booked in now to make the most of this early bird offer! Discount code avalaible until 30th November 2022! 👇
www.oceanvertical.com/adventure-category/winter-mountaineering
The adventure isn't over yet.
There is still time to join a Coasteering adventure in 2022!
We have sessions available on the weekends in October & November this year.
The ocean might be getting colder, but we have thick winter wetsuits, boots and gloves as well as plenty of coffee and a wood burning stove to warm up next to after you session.
#WelcomeToAdventure
Paddle boarding in East Lothian can often be at the mercy of the wind. Even during the summer months we will often experience the wind whipping along our coastline, creating an unsuitable learning environment for beginner paddlers.
Luckily, here at Ocean Vertical, when the wind is blowing a hoolie on the coast, we can retreat inland to our private and peaceful loch. Tucked away in the hills just minutes from our base in Dunbar - it's the perfect learning environment for beginners.
Join us for level one paddle boarding sessions this summer 👇
www.oceanvertical.com/adventures/learn-to-paddle-board-sup-level-1
World Ocean Day - Fidra Island
This #WorldOceanDay we want to share a little bit of the magic of our coastline with you.
Check out the new film of our Island Tours, shot on a stunning spring morning by Scotica Film 📽
The Coastline around East Lothian is teaming with life, from the starfish, limpets and anemones that call our rock pools home; to the puffins, gannets and razorbills nesting on the islands; and the large mammals in the ocean, the seals, dolphins and whales that we often spot while on our adventures.
Ocean Vertical, as a company and as a group of individuals, are committed to sharing and protecting the ocean environment around our coastline and beyond.
#welcometoadventure
Paddle Boarding coaching with Ocean Vertical
Stand Up Paddle boarding is a way to move with the environment.
At Ocean Vertical we provide expert coaching from our qualified and nurturing ASI SUP instructors.
We have sessions for beginers (level one), sesions for those wanting to progress their paddling (level two) as well as island tours (level three).
Join us on the water this summer - https://www.oceanvertical.com/adventure-category/paddle-boarding
#welcometoadventure
📽 Video by Scotica Film
Stevie Boyle X Vango Outdoor
Please put your hands together to congratulate our founder and head of adventure Stevie Boyle on becoming Vango's newest ambassador! 👏
Stevie says "I am most excited about Vango's new Earth Collection which they laucnhed last year. The range used 100% recycled plastic, in 2022 the equivalent of 8million plastic bottles are being recycled and turned into outdoor kit!"
We asked our friends at Scotica Film to put this awesome short film together to celebrate Stevie's new role with Vango 👇
Nurture your need for freedom and adventure.
This winter we joined Wild Scotland for a day’s winter mountaineering in Glencoe to support their Nurture campaign.
This campaign resonates strongly with our beliefs, to nurture our love for the mountains and oceans, to coach and instruct our clients in a nurturing manor and to endeavour to nurture and protect the environment we work in.
#wildscotland #nurtureinscotland
This one is for everyone who’s asked us what an OV adventure in the mountains feels like.
Massive thanks to Gregor from Scotica Film who joined us in Glencoe last month for our Introduction to Winter Climbing Course and created this awesome film.
If you want to join us on an winter skills adventure we’ve got limited spaces available on our next two courses:
🏔 23rd & 24th Feb
🏔 22nd & 23rd March
More details on our website 👇 see you in the mountains!
https://www.oceanvertical.com/adventures/introduction-to-winter-climbing
Welcome to OV Tech Tuesdays: The Winter Edition!
This week head instructor Stevie Boyle talks to us about crampons for winter mountaineering.
Do you have any crampon questions? Drop them into the comments below 👇
Winter Mountaineering in Scotland
Scotland at its Wildest,
Scotland at its Fiercest,
Scotland at its Finest,
Break Free and Be, with Ocean Vertical.
Winter mountaineering experience days, skills courses and corporate events - Avaliable to book now - www.oceanvertical.com
Coasteering adventures under the autumn sun: Dolphins, seals and amazingly - a minke whale! Make it happen now. oceanvertical.com