October 20/21st 2018 Glen Lyon Only 4 people signed up for the Glen Lyon weekend - Iain Wright, Graham Rebecca, Alan Watson and Gillie Hagger. On Friday morning Iain, Alan and Gillie headed off to Glen Lyon to climb two munros en route - Meall Corranaich and Meall a'Choire Leith. We saw a ptarmigan and a flock of unidentified MBJs. The clouds lifted as we climbed and despite the wind we managed the two in good time and made our way to the cottage in Glen Lyon that Gillie had booked on Airbnb. Graham travelled over on Friday morning and despite recovering from 'man-flu' (Graham's description) he managed to climb Meall nan Subh. On his walk he saw a ring ouzel - yaaaay. On Saturday Graham
10-14th October 2018 After a bit of organisational to-ing and fro-ing, attendance final settled out as a group of 6 of us; Gillie, Alan, Jane and Bob joining Althea & I at our cottage, Ty Newydd in Beddgelert, Snowdonia. As the trip got closer, the weather forecast began to look more ominous, with Storm Callum brewing off in the Atlantic. We therefore assembled on the Wednesday evening and considered our options, rapidly determining that we needed a good route choice to make the most of on Thursday, with little prospect of conditions being anywhere near as good for the rest of the trip. So for Day 1, we selected on an ascent of Cnicht (689m) by the SW ridge. Clouds were beginning to gathe
