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Scotland Trips

Easter 2010 – Glen Etive  

Two days Munro Bagging in Glen Etive Bagging Stob Coir’an Albannaich (1044m) and Meall nan Eun (928m) at bottom of Glen Etive. Fantastic sunny day. High avalanche risk on SE to SW slopes, lots of patchy windslab and sastrugi to navigate through safely. Some crampon work needed on steep harder North slopes. Buchille Etive More » read more »

Scotland January 2010  

We’ve had a couple of Scottish trips this January. The first was a week at New Year spent in Newtonmore where we hired the local hostel. The weather was unusually cold and very snowy so we didn’t achieve very much due to high avalanche risk, but we did manage to bag Carn a’Chlamain from Blair » read more »

May-bank Bagging #2: Mullardoch  

Day 1: Flew to Inverness, drove into Glen Affric and then bagged; NH194282 Toll Creagach (1054m) NH164273 Tom a’Choinich (1112m) [ad#alpine-flowers] Day 2: Backpacked in to the far end of loch Mullardoch to set up camp. Rained all day. See a map of our route (as a PDF file) here… If i were to do » read more »

May-bank Bagging #1  

Bagging Ben Alder, Beinn Bheoil, and some Fannichs. Sorry no photos this time

Easter 2009  

Munro bagging fest at Easter from Glen Garry (staying in Ardlochy Cottages); Gulvain (Gaor Bheinn) Creag nan Damh, Sgurr an Lochain & Sgurr an Doire Leathain The Saddle & Sgurr na Sgine Gleouraich Sgurr a’Mhaoraich Sgurr Eilde Mor & Binnein Beag (Mamores) Gairich Mullach Clach a’Bhlair (Cairngorms) Meall Chuaich  


Author: Phil Newby