Cold changes everything on Scottish winter rock. Your fingers stop feeling the holds, your boots feel like cardboard, and that move you nailed in September suddenly feels like a mystery. If you've ever pulled onto a route on a bitter February morning and thought, "why is this so hard?", you're not going soft. Your body is reacting to the cold, and the rock is too. Here's how freezing temperatures change the way you move on Scottish winter climbing routes, and what we work on