Category: geology
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The southernmost Munro of the Skye Cuillin ridge – May
Having said goodbye to P and B1 who were heading home, and with a better forecast for our last day on Skye, we set off driving to Glenbrittle in order to go up to Sgurr nan Eag, a Munro that we had missed on our traverse due to the alternative start. We had considered Am…
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Classic Cuillin climbing on the Cioch – Skye, May
Two days after finishing the traverse, we met up with M and J to go and retrieve our bivvy gear, which we had stashed away near the cave two mornings earlier, and to climb the Cioch on the way back. The weather was a bit wetter and cooler, and when we reached the ‘Slab Corner’…
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^^-áµ¥-^-^ Second day of the Cuillin traverse – Skye, Scotland, May ^áµ¥–^-^
(Blog entry below the photographs) All too soon (or not soon enough?), M’s alarm quietly sounded at 3.00 am, and we started getting up. Eating and drinking what we could, we stashed our sleeping gear near the cave, and set off up to Sgurr Alasdair, the highest point in the Cuillin. Getting onto the ridge…