Wanderings up North

The date had been set a while back for a Trek-Lite meet up, but as the date approached the weather took a nasty dive, after a long warm spell of good weather! I packed Friday afternoon and after an hour and a bits drive i was parked up along the Wasdale road for 3-30pm  I got sorted and reached for my footwear !  Ooops seems I've brought two left La Sportiva Wildcats ....a mix match of footwear was called for  Nothing much to say about Fridays weather, lets just say it started to lash down 5 mins from the car...at least the new Crux jacket got a good testing.We only stopped once on the way up the wind rain and thick crag didn't warrant stopping for anything, but a short stop.The only plus being iwas able to pick up water from camp only 50 metres below my camp on the coll, between Haycock and Scott fell It stayed wet nearly all evening apart from a brief lull around 9 pm,i stretched my...

So after breakfast at our B&B at Garve,with us both grumbling about the wrong forecast the day before (On our Fannich trip) ,we drove south and then upto the ski station    It was noticeably cooler than the 3 days before,by a margin of 18 c The clag was down sadly so Lee and Oscar sadly didn't get the great views you can get from Macdui,which was a shame as there pretty good Its been nearly 18 years since i first did these hills and it was a shock and a shame to see all the large paths that have appeared over those years.But its no different than back home in the Lakes  For reference i never meant to be that close to this path, but i kept moving the door to get a better view, it wasn't the main path but back from it by about 2 mins  Not long after we got to the area we planned to camp it started to clear out nicely, so we ate our tea out.After tea we decided to nip up Cairn Gorm while it wa...