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Early February 2018, and my passport arrived with it’s visa for Nepal. Now it was real, I was going. Two weeks later, I found myself in a Doha airport lounge, surrounded by Nepalese men returning home with large TVs as luggage. There was one other Brit, a woman with...

An extra day required more than usual in order to get up to Dundonnell for an early start on Friday. Arriving at the Smiddy around 8pm on the Thursday evening we had some snacks and a few drinks by the fire. Friday morning Ken kindly dropped us off at the start point...

So a SCC contingent were in occupation of Strawberry Cottage 26th/27th April, all except for Janic & Mike who were in a different time zone and were there Thursday and Friday instead. They spent the Friday on Ceanrathan. our 5 star accommodation for the weekend...

Muir of Inverey The Famous 5 have another "Awesome" out and about weekend in the mountains. Two nights at the Muir Hut Inveray with our new SCC friends in the Mar Lodge Estate. Arriving late on Friday evening with a big pot of home made soup washed down with Beers and...

C.I.C Hut, Ben Nevis; 2nd/3rd September, 2016. Dave picked me and Janice up, and we were- Mike Dunn, Dave Paterson, Eric Rice; Janice McKinlay and Cammy McMillan (report elsewhere.) The usual hard toil up to the CIC from the North Face car park with heavy sacks, but...

Mike Dunn and Kenny Brookman started the weekend early heading into Coire Nan Lochan on the Friday to climb Ordinary Route on Central Buttress. They started this route in February 1988, retreating due to drunkenness ( possibly darkness ). Therefore it took them...