David’s been doing a great job of getting the weekend meets sorted. Here’s the latest update. To book on to any of the meets, please email David. We’ve included some write ups of previous meets for inspiration. Weekend meets are open to guests too, please feel free to email for more information. 30th-2nd October Elphin caving hut, Elphin £10pppn. Currently full, but not many on the reserve. If you book now there’s a good chance you’ll be on the meet! Fabulous location for the Asynt hills. For ideas a previous meet report can be found here: 4th – 6th November Gairloch Sands Youth Hostel, Gairloch £25pppn. The fancy dress has…

Weekend Meet at Inbhirfhaolain, Glen Etive, Thursday 15th – Sunday 18th September.  The Thursday night is an optional extra, added by popular demand. The cost is £7.50 per person per night, or £4.50 per person per night for those in tents or vans. Accommodation is quite basic, with water fetched from the burn and an Alpine style sleeping platform.  Sleeping bags required but not mats.  The meet has been slotted in to fit in with a Munro compleation that had to be postponed due to Covid.  All welcome to join said compleater on Beinn Fhionnlaidh on the Saturday but no compulsion to do so! See https://www.grampianclub.org.uk/property/the-club-hut/ for details. Reports from previous meets:…

Well what a weekend. Leading up to Knoydart, the long range forecast was looking good, but I don’t think anyone could have predicted the need for constant reapplying of Factor 50 all weekend, the impromptu ceilidh and David and Becka having to pull Colin back from trying to join the Edinburgh University Mountaineering Club skinny dipping. Brent, Dianne and Babs’ weekend started early on Thursday sharing a cycle until they parted ways with Brent and Dianne heading up Gulvain and Babs with Braigh nan Uamhachan in her sights. Bob and Fiona were spotted near the top of Gulvain on their way off the hill. They all had a fantastically sunny…

A fantastic time was had by the 10 lucky people who ventured to this beautiful and wild part of Lewis. Everyone was there for the 3 nights of Friday to Sunday but others took the opportunity of arriving on Thursday and some stayed until Tuesday. This is of course is easy for those who don’t have to earn a crust! It also makes sense in view of the high cost of taking a car on the ferry. The Otter Bunkhouse and Bothy are very comfortable although they could be improved by additional fridge space and an oven. The selling point is the position on the sea front. Unfortunately it did…

Join us at the base of the mighty Buachaille Etive Mor in the Laggangarbh hut. I hear someone might be completing their munros this weekend too. Plenty of munros, climbing and walking in the area. Cost is £15pppn. Currently, we are full but there should be plenty of options to camp. More detail on the hut can be found here: https://www.smc.org.uk/huts/lagangarbh  To sign up, please email David.

“Scotland’s favourite bunkhouse”. A great base to explore the Knoydart peninsula. Hopefully the old forge will be back open too after takeover by the community. £20pppn. Details of the bunkhouse are at https://knoydart.org/knoydart-bunkhouse/ You will need to get a ferry across. If you’re interested in more information and would like to come along please let our weekend meet coordinator know David Treagus. An excellent blog post from a previous trip is here: https://moraymc.org/2015/04/02/march-2015-weekend-meet-report-inverie-knoydart/

The first time the club has been to Lewis for over 10 years! Otter Bunkhouse is near Uig, A perfect location for some classic Lewis scrambles, and if the weather is non-conducive, you’re next to the Abhainn Dearg distillery. £20pppn, the website is https://www.otterbunkhouse.com/page2 Currently, this meet is full, but please message the weekend meets coordinator David Treagus for more information. 

The weather promised “sub-optimal” conditions all weekend so Joe managed to make the most of the bearable weather. Recently having succumbed to bagging fever he managed both Ben Challum and Ben Mheadhoin before arriving at the Alex Macintyre Memorial Hut in Ballachulish. With 70mph gusts forecasted for the Saturday, no bold routes were planned on Friday night. The “baby buckle” (Buachaille Etive Beag) was in order for Adele, Adrian, Sheena, David and Minnie. Despite Adele being adamant they should leave at 2200 for the supposed weather window, 12 hours later they left. Adrian realised he had an appointment with his van half way up, and Sheena decided a walk along the A82…

New Year Meet 2021-22 (names omitted to protect the innocent and any possible guilty persons). A small band of highly tested, super-injected over-dosed virus resistant persons met (within the carefully thought out guidelines and risk assessed requirements) for the Kintail New Year Meet.  The cup of kindness was definitely full as it meant we all had our own room with private facilities. The weather was pretty poor but a good time was had by all.  Various low level walks occurred around Balmacara, Glenelg and up the valley to the waterfall and bothy which contained some Edinburgh student-types.  The mountaineering highlight was the 2-person summit of the Corbett Sgurr Mhic Bharraich in…