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SCOTLAND - CENTRAL & SOUTHERN — ARGYLL · SCHIST

The Anvil (Loch Goil) climbing conditions

Poor — wet, too windy or closed

Right now

Temp14°C
Wind17 km/h
Gusts26 km/h
Humidity78.8%
Rain 48h0.1mm
Last rainNone recent

Assessment

7mm rain forecast
Good friction temperature range for schist

7-day forecast

Scroll through each day — hourly detail is shown inline.

Today Wednesday 16 September
Poor
Temp14°C
Rain7mm
Wind17 km/h
Gusts26 km/h
Humidity82%
7mm rain forecast
  • Wet schist is slippery and slow to dry
Time °C Rain Wind (km/h) Gust Hum
15:00 14° 0.1mm 17 — 78.8%
16:00 13° 0.3mm 18 — 85.3%
17:00 13° dry 16 — 91.9%
18:00 12° 0.8mm 16 — 92%
19:00 12° 0.8mm 15 — 96.9%
20:00 12° 1mm 18 — 97.4%
21:00 12° 2mm 21 — 97.9%
Thu Thursday 17 September
Poor
Temp12°C
Rain7mm
Wind25 km/h
Gusts—
Humidity95%
7mm rain forecastHumidity 95% — potential fog
  • Wet schist is slippery and slow to dry
  • Damp air — slopers and friction edges may feel greasy
  • Breezy — helps drying
Time °C Rain Wind (km/h) Gust Hum
06:00 11° 0.3mm 18 — 97.2%
07:00 11° 0.4mm 19 — 97.1%
08:00 11° 0.6mm 22 — 97.3%
09:00 11° 0.6mm 22 — 97.1%
10:00 12° 0.9mm 23 — 95.5%
11:00 12° 1mm 24 — 96.8%
12:00 12° 0.5mm 23 — 97%
13:00 12° 0.7mm 26 — 94.4%
14:00 11° 0.3mm 27 — 96.4%
15:00 12° 0.5mm 27 — 92.9%
16:00 12° 0.5mm 27 — 94.2%
17:00 11° 0.1mm 28 — 92.8%
18:00 11° 0.2mm 27 — 94%
19:00 11° dry 27 — 91.6%
20:00 11° dry 26 — 89.6%
21:00 11° dry 24 — 87.2%
Fri Friday 18 September
Poor
Temp13°C
Rain11mm
Wind21 km/h
Gusts—
Humidity96%
11.3mm rain forecastHumidity 96% — potential fog
  • Wet schist is slippery and slow to dry
  • Damp air — slopers and friction edges may feel greasy
  • Breezy — helps drying
Time °C Rain Wind (km/h) Gust Hum
06:00 11° dry 17 — 96.9%
07:00 12° 0.1mm 17 — 95.9%
08:00 12° 0.2mm 17 — 93.6%
09:00 13° 0.2mm 18 — 92.3%
10:00 13° 0.9mm 19 — 88.4%
11:00 12° 0.5mm 19 — 95.4%
12:00 12° 0.7mm 19 — 96.8%
13:00 12° 1mm 19 — 97.5%
14:00 13° 2mm 23 — 97.8%
15:00 13° 1mm 21 — 98.5%
16:00 14° 0.3mm 23 — 99%
17:00 15° 0.7mm 23 — 98.1%
18:00 15° 0.4mm 24 — 98.8%
19:00 14° 0.4mm 22 — 98.8%
20:00 14° 0.4mm 22 — 98.4%
21:00 14° 0.8mm 21 — 97.9%
Sat Saturday 19 September
Poor
Temp14°C
Rain2mm
Wind21 km/h
Gusts—
Humidity82%
1.6mm rain forecast
  • Wet schist is slippery and slow to dry
  • Breezy — helps drying
Time °C Rain Wind (km/h) Gust Hum
06:00 12° 0.3mm 21 — 98.1%
12:00 14° 0.5mm 21 — 82.1%
18:00 10° 0.3mm 21 — 94.8%
Sun Sunday 20 September
Poor
Temp14°C
Rain0.9mm
Wind30 km/h
Gusts—
Humidity68%
0.9mm rain forecast
  • Wet schist is slippery and slow to dry
  • Breezy — helps drying
Time °C Rain Wind (km/h) Gust Hum
06:00 10° dry 25 — 97.2%
12:00 14° dry 30 — 67.7%
18:00 12° dry 21 — 78.5%
Mon Monday 21 September
Good
Temp14°C
Raindry
Wind9 km/h
Gusts—
Humidity77%
Should be dry
  • Schist climbs well when dry; lichen may slow drying in shade
Time °C Rain Wind (km/h) Gust Hum
06:00 11° dry 4 — 84.6%
12:00 14° dry 9 — 77%
18:00 15° dry 6 — 91.2%
Tue Tuesday 22 September
Poor
Temp17°C
Rain0.7mm
Wind12 km/h
Gusts—
Humidity97%
0.7mm rain forecastHumidity 97% — likely fog/cloud
  • Wet schist is slippery and slow to dry
  • Damp air — slopers and friction edges may feel greasy
Time °C Rain Wind (km/h) Gust Hum
06:00 15° 0.2mm 4 — 100%
12:00 17° 0.1mm 12 — 96.6%
18:00 16° dry 5 — 95.9%
Wed Wednesday 23 September
Poor
Temp15°C
Rain0.5mm
Wind11 km/h
Gusts—
Humidity97%
0.5mm rain forecastHumidity 97% — likely fog/cloud
  • Wet schist is slippery and slow to dry
  • Damp air — slopers and friction edges may feel greasy
Time °C Rain Wind (km/h) Gust Hum
06:00 14° 0.3mm 9 — 99.8%
12:00 15° dry 11 — 97.2%
18:00 15° dry 10 — 90.7%

About The Anvil (Loch Goil)

The Anvil is a colossal free-standing schist boulder marked as Uamh Innein on the OS map, six kilometres south of Lochgoilhead on the east shore of Loch Goil. Second only to Dumbarton Rock as Scotland's most important hard sport venue, the fifteen-metre block is steep on three of its four aspects, offering some of the most intense sport climbing in the country on hard, coarse mica-schist with sharp crimps, side-pulls, and long stretches between features. Aspects vary around the boulder so climbers can chase shade in summer heat or sun on colder days, though the loch-side position means shady sides can seep after prolonged rain. This venue is squarely for elite climbers: nothing meaningful goes below Fr8a, with the crag's headline lines Hunger, Metalcore and the Malcolm Smith / Dave MacLeod testpieces all in the Fr9a range. Approach is roughly forty-five minutes up a rough hillside path from parking on the B839 shore road.

Region
Scotland - Central & Southern — Argyll
Rock type
Schist
Altitude
60m
Exposure
medium
Seepage
medium