Journal

Our Burns Supper this year was a well-attended meet at Braedownie Hut in Glen Clova. We settled in on Friday evening, catching up around a roaring fire and planning on what might be possible the next day. With a poor forecast not inspiring many, Davy's Bourach sounded like the most ambitious

Our New Year meet this year saw us returning to Mill Cottage at Feshiebridge, with around 18 club and family members ready to celebrate the year past and bring in the bells for 2026. Alex and Lucas (and Jura) made an ascent of Meall Chuaich on their way to the hut on the 30th December. Colin went

Everyone made their way to Mill Cottage in Feshiebridge for our dinner meet again this year. Some decided to add to the fun right out of the gate, with Adam cycling up to the hut, and overcoming the strong winds at the Drumochter pass. With most members landing on Friday, the evening was spent

A small but mighty group made the trip down to the Lake District for our camping meet, based at Seathwaite Farm Campsite, tucked away just south of Borrowdale near Keswick. It’s fair to say the campsite was on the Spartan side of things, but it was a cracking base for climbing, hiking, and even the

After overcoming the challenging A9, our Friday night contingent assembled at Mill Cottage in Feshiebridge to join John, who had been up earlier in the week, taking  full advantage of the excellent weather. It was an evening of catching up, sharing stories, and planning for the day ahead, and some

A very well attended meet at Muir Cottage, Inverey. The hut was full, since we were sharing it with some students from GCUMC, or GCUMC (nGUctw) to give its full title – "Glasgow Caledonian University Mountaineering Club (not Glasgow University, cos they’re wankers)". There was a sprinkling of

Greeted and shown around by a very friendly hut maintenance officer, we settled in for a relaxing Friday evening, talking about plans for the day ahead, keeping in mind the strong winds that were forecast and knowing the cloud was likely to be in. In the morning, Alex, Tim, Matt and Matt

Our New Year meet is always very well attended, and this year did not disappoint, with around 20 club and family members coming along to enjoy the mountains and the festivities! Hogmanay's walk saw a group heading for Mayar with the potential of Driesh, however, the first challenge was

Getting things on an even keel after Covid was obviously not quite so easy as we all thought, so the date for the 2022 dinner meet was run a little later than usual, many people had other arrangements but a good number were able to make it and a good time was had. Joady managed to secure the