After around ten years of patiently bagging Munros (predominantly in the Winter season), i finally had just Sgurr Nan Gillian and Ben More left, and i didn’t want to do Gillian in winter! So we went up at August Bank Holiday and gave ourselves a whole week (in case of bad weather) before we’d arranged » read more »
Backpacking in the Cairngorms. Sorry no photos this time as we didn’t take the Camera…
A Week Munro bagging in Torridon based at Caladh at Allagin Shuas Slioch. Slioch via the ridge from its NE top Liathach’s Western Munro. Standard assent from the roadside camp site. We descended by the western ridge to Ben Alligin car park to avoid big snow cornicing. Day trip to Skye to get the Inn. Pin. with » read more »
Two days Munro Bagging in Glen Etive Bagging Stob Coir’an Albannaich (1044m) and Meall nan Eun (928m) at bottom of Glen Etive. Fantastic sunny day. High avalanche risk on SE to SW slopes, lots of patchy windslab and sastrugi to navigate through safely. Some crampon work needed on steep harder North slopes. Buchille Etive More » read more »
We’ve had a couple of Scottish trips this January. The first was a week at New Year spent in Newtonmore where we hired the local hostel. The weather was unusually cold and very snowy so we didn’t achieve very much due to high avalanche risk, but we did manage to bag Carn a’Chlamain from Blair » read more »
Author: Phil Newby