Dave surveys his domain

Lagangarbh is always a popular location and despite the rather wintry weather in Moray during the preceding week, twelve members arrived.  There was much less snow in the west than in Moray, but nonetheless full winter conditions still prevailed at any significant altitude.

Joe Glennie and Jake Lee set off with the ambitious goal of a winter ascent of Curved Ridge.  The conditions were “not ideal” – it took two pitches just to get to the foot of the route!  A bit of faff later and the daylight was fading.  Realising that the route will be there another day, they returned to the hut for some cask strength refreshment.

Graeme Gunn, Margaret Paterson and others made the arduous ascent of the West Highland Way to the Kings House.  Graeme Morrison and Bob MacDonald went up a hill near Ballachulish.  The cloud lifted as the day went on and they got a view of Dan and Dave on the adjacent summit.

Dave Galloway and Dan Moysey went up Sgor na h-Ulaidh and were glad of crampons and ices axes for the final summit slope.  They just about managed to return before dark, despite having to extract Dave’s foot from a hole on the descent.

Sunday dawned with beautiful blue skies and a hard frost.  Jake and Joe planned to tackle the long ridge of Aonach Mor in the Etive hills.  Dan and Dave went up Beinn Sgulaird just off the Oban road.  To avoid an out-and-back, they descended via a steep side valley, which included a bum-slide down some ice covered rocks – well Penny made it so how hard can it be!

If none of the above bears any resemblance to what happened, or if I haven’t even mentioned you, then that’s because I only have one write-up in the folder!

Dan Moysey

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