Martin & Sarah climbed a Corbett on the drive up to the
meet, on Thursday.
On Friday, the group woke to new snowfall down to about
200m. Martin & Sarah climbed the Munro Meall Ghaordhie whilst John, having
now suspended his winter Munro bagging for another year until next winter,
climbed a Graham.
On Sunday, there were azure skies and Sarah and Martin
climbed the Corbett Beinn Chuirn, near Beinn Laoigh (Ben Lui). With no-one to
share the trail breaking on any Grahams, John returned home early.
On Saturday, members woke to fresh snow on the cars in the
hut car park. Martin and Sarah drove as
far as possible up the minor road to where the Ben Lawers visitor centre used
to be and then took advantage of another party’s trail through the deep snow to
reach the summit of the Munro Meall nan Tarmachan. Due to the low visibility they decided not to
attempt to follow the convoluted ridge westwards and returned. John attempted a Graham via an intermediary,
sub-Graham hill, but met trackless deep heather which resulted in an “endless”
sequence of post-holing through knee to waist deep snow drifts and with no-one else to share the hard
work of breaking trail retreated after the intermediary hill.
