It's great to be back in the hills after lockdown. On Saturday 18th July 5 socially distanced DHC members (Chris, Gillie, Alan, Moira and Tim) were very pleased to have an outing from Corgarff to climb the corbett Carn Ealasaid (792m).

 There was a cool wind but extreme...

Bob gave an excellent slideshow over Zoom recounting the story of the Loughborough Uni Mountaineering Club 1976  Kishtwar expedition to an unclimbed peak in the western Himalayas, including driving there and back via Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.

Here...

David Gray ran a fun Munro bingo session last night which all participants enjoyed immensely. We held 2 rounds and the winners of each round were the first to get a complete line (and shout "guy line") and a complete card (and shout "tent").

 Just for the record the win...

For those that missed Sandy's Zoom quiz on Monday 1st June here are the questions and answers for you to try it yourself. I think we all found it really good fun and certainly very challenging!

 Cairngorms 1

 Cairngorms 2a

 Cairngorms 2b

 Cairngorms 3

 Cairngorms 4

 Cairngor...

We held another well-attended, entertaining and interesting Zoom session last night (after a few teething problems due to me failing to send out the meeting password!) hosted by Gillie - big thanks for arranging.

The books that were reviewed are shown in the picture bel...

Here are the submitted entries in the Tenzing Photo Re-creation competition to re-create the classic photo of Tenzing Norgay Sherpa taken by Sir Edmund Hillary on the summit of Everest in 1953.

A big thank you to all that took part and for the enormous variety and ingen...

Newtonmore 14-15th March 

The weather forecast wasn't great for the weekend of 13-15 March.  High winds and rain on an already boggy landscape didn't seem hugely appealing but 10 of us set off on Friday afternoon to meet up in the Strathspey Mountain Hostel.  We were -...

DHC : Corgarff February 23rd

Seven of us were to team up to tackle the two Graham's on the Cromdale hills but a flurry of snow and high winds on the Saturday alerted Ruth to the Lecht road being closed. It was still closed in the morning so Gordon decided to pull out an...

Seven of us plus Dylan ventured out in high winds on Saturday 8th February - Tim, Gordon, Alan, Ali, Robert, myself and a newbie - Tracey!

We met at the church at the end of the Birse Castle road and set off to conquer Tampie, Hill of Cat and Gannoch. We found a slight...

Sunday 12th January

Eight members (Gillie, Susan, Moira, Eileen, Jane, Bob, Peter and Iain) plus two dogs (Isla and Harris) braved sub-zero temperatures to complete the “Prince’s Loop” from Keiloch car park at Invercauld Estate. 

Crossing the old bridge at Invercauld in...