Date: 4th/5th July 2015 Venue: Ariundle Bunkhouse Location: Facilities: There are two bunk bed rooms upstairs each with their own private facilities. Linen is supplied with the exception of towels. Breakfast can be provided in the tea room or kitchen facilities are available in the Bunkhouse. The bar in the restaurant is always available for accommodation users regardless of table bookings. Cost: £18 pppn Nearby hills: No Munros but plenty of quality Corbetts, Grahams and Marilyns in Ardgour, Sunart, Moidart, Morvern and Ardnamuchan. If you are desperate for a Munro tick, you could drive the short distance to Lochaline and take the ferry across to Mull to ascend Ben More. Nearby Corbetts include…

Suilven Date: 6th/7th June 2015 Venue: Elphin Caving Hut, Elphin Location: Once in the village of Elphin, start looking for a red telephone box on the left; immediately after it turn right up a track called Grampian Avenue. If you arrive at a T junction (Ledmore Junction) you’ve gone too far. Google Streetview showing the hut. Facilities: Self-catering accommodation for 20 people, gas and wood fires, toilets, hot showers, gas rings for cooking, a microwave oven, parking for eight cars. Nearby Hills: Suilven, Canisp, Quinag, Glas Bheinn, Stac Pollaidh, Cul Mor, Cul Beag, Ben Mor Coigach, Beinn an Eoin, Sgurr an Fhidhlier, Breabag, Conival, Ben More Assynt, Foinaven, Meall Horn, Arkle,…

Last month was the Knoydart Foundation bunkhouse in Inverie. This month it was the Loch Ossian Youth Hostel by Rannoch Moor. Both are out of the reach of the motor car, both are new venues for the club and both proved to be lovely places to stay with potential for future meets to be held there. Luckily the weather was better for this meet than the last and as a bonus we were treated to the company of a number of people who had never been on a Moray Mountaineering Club weekend meet before. Malcolm, Illona, Sue and Faye arrived on the Friday lunchtime train, getting to the hostel by…

The MET office had issued weather warnings for wind and rain. SEPA had issued flood warnings for the Western Highlands. The MWIS weather forecast used the word “atrocious”. This was going to be an interesting weekend. Ferries would be cancelled, people would fail to appear and only an idiot would attempt the walk through the Rough Bounds of Knoydart to Inverie. Joe stumbled out of his car, somewhere near the shore of Loch Quoich. He squinted around in the daylight to see a general greyness and, surprisingly, no snow. He could swear there had been snow by the sides of the road on the drive up the glen the night…

Date: 2nd/3rd/4th May 2015 (3 nights) Venue: Corrie & Sannox Village Hall Location: Corrie and Sannox are small villages, nestling under the  mountains, within a mile of each other on the east coast of Arran. Corrie lies six miles north of Brodick where the ferry from Ardrossan docks. Getting here: There are two ferries to Arran. 1) You can take the ferry from Ardrossan to Brodick, which takes 55 minutes. Vehicle reservations are recommended. 2) You can take the ferry from Claonaig in Kintyre to Lochranza, at the north end of Arran, which takes 30 minutes. No advance booking is necessary on this sailing. Simply turn up at the port of departure,…