After a day off, I was back in Skye and along with Jamie, running the third of our Cuillins Munro Courses on Skye. The beauty of these courses is that we can juggle the days around to fit with the weather and with today looking the windiest for the next few days...
Time to get outside and forget those exam worries!
Happy Climbing,
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I have been joined by Graham and Jonathan for a three day Mountain Leader Refresher here in Snowdonia. We chatted through changes in the scheme since Grahams training course in 1987 and then headed out for a Quality Mountain Day.
Yesterday, Jon and I made the most of his final day by tackling the 3 northern Munros on the main Cuillin Ridge; Sgurr nan Gillean, Am Basteir and Bruach na Frithe. The weather was marginally better than the day before, but it was still pretty wet for much of the day!
Today was wet, very wet! It's been a while since I've experienced such wet conditions on Skye and fortunately, it looks like it won't be quite so wet in the foreseeable future! I was back out with Ed...
It didn't really rain at any point today but up above the cloud level the rock has been pretty wet and skittery. The first part of our day was unaffected though; the relatively low level scramble up The Spur of Sgurr an Fheadain.
With greasy conditions on the ridge today we chose to head up Sgurr Alasdair via the South-West Ridge (3). The route starts at Bealach Sgumain via a lovely walk into Coire a' Ghrunnda which gives some lovely views across to Rum.
Jon, Ed and I entered the clouds at the lip of Coire Lagan and didn't drop back out of it until quite a way down Coir' an Eich, but fortunately, it mostly stayed dry for much of the day. From Coire Lagan...