Eight members attended. After an inauspicious start of rain
pattering on the hut roof on Saturday morning and hence a relatively late rise,
members got out in various groups to do various objectives, amongst occasional
light showers, which had the bonus of providing some very vivid rainbows when
the sun shone through chinks in the cloud.
Jake and Chris tackled a compact group (rare) of three Corbetts near
Loch Ailort, with a lot more descent and re-ascent between peaks than perhaps
they had anticipated. Ross and Jan took
on a pair of Grahams near Inchree and, following the guide book, took their
choice of “any of the streams through the forest”; unfortunately they chose one
of the several streams other than the only one which leads without purgatorial
effort up on to the desired ridge.
Sarah, Martin and Johnny went for Ben Starav and its tops but, instead
of climbing back up from the distantly outlying top at 918 metres, they opted
to descend the West ridge and then had a long hard tramp around the
“interminable” loch shore. John bagged a brace of Grahams at the foot of
Glencoe, without incident; these gave magnificent views up the Glencoe valley,
through the arch of one of the most complete and vivid rainbows he has ever
seen.
Sunday; Johnny went directly home with a gammy knee. Ross, Jan and Sarah climbed the two Grahams
which John had climbed the day before. Jake and Chris climbed a Corbett near to
Ben Heasgarnich. John went much further North to Struy and got permission to
take a car up Glen Strathfarrar to climb a Graham in the pouring rain before
heading further Northwards to start climbing the remote, outlying Grahams of
the far North, over the next couple of weeks.
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