The IBSC is an all round mountain sports club with a particular focus on backcountry skiing, ski touring and other backcountry snowsports. Snowboarders, splitboarders and kite skiers are all welcome alongside members who traditionally stick to alpine touring kit or tele skiing kit . A range of activities is organised throughout the winter to cater for all abilities although it is expected members will already have reasonable ski ability.

The club aims to provide a forum to meet, share interests, enjoy and develop skills in backcountry skiing, ski touring, ski mountaineering and other wintersports including ice climbing and hill walking.

In the summer the club is growing its activities reflecting the huge range of existing member interests which span hill walking, paddlesports, mountain biking, road biking, rock climbing, surfing, wild water swimming, mountain running and high level camping. A full summer programme of events will in future feature alongside the long established wintersports calendar.

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Recent trip reports

Ardverikie 1 combined trip with Eagle Ski Club 21 – 25 Feb 2025
Nine sporting enthusiasts descended / ascended to Ardverikie Estate, between Newtonmore and Spean Bridge, ‘en face de’ the famous, and also elusive (given the weather) Creag Meagaidh for a joint meet with Inverness Back Country
Ardverikie 2 – Combined IBSC & Eagles Trip – 26th February 2025
The weather was settled and we had some sunshine and not too much wind. However sadly and inevitably there was not enough snow for ski-ing without a very significant boot-pack for which none of the
Women’s Day Trip – 22nd February 2025
Apparently Scotland is the windiest country in Europe and while this is great for wind farms, it's not so great for ski touring. This combined with the lack of snow meant that essentially Womens Day
Glenuaig – 21st February 2025
Darkness enveloped the glen as we cycled the last couple of kilometres to the lodge. As club and Inverness newbies we had been advised that this was the trip to get on. So it was
Wild West Kintail – 14th February 2025
The near 4hr drive to the Kintail Bunkhouse from the central belt is a pleasure, some of the finest scenery, however the last stretch was in the dark, so I would have to wait till