Cabin in Laggan, 13-15th April 2012

Weekend trip using a JMCS Edina hut at Laggan near Newtonmore as a base: on Friday went straight into the climbing at Glen Nevis and climbed Drizzle (HS 4b) on Cavalry Crack Buttress in the Pol Dubh area. It had a bold-ish start not helped by vegetation but overall a decent climb. The route finished with a slightly overhanging, quartz smattered, pinnacle with hidden jugs. Called it a day as hail came down heavily on the descent.

Due to an emergency at home my climbing partner had to leave suddenly. I decided that I might as well stay and do some walking as the weather was great. Went up A' Chailleach of the Monadh Liath on Saturday.Views were beautiful and when the snowing clouds closed in I put on my goggles and pretended I was an astronaut (I'm laughing at myself as I write this but in my defence it did feel "other-worldly", just look at the pictures).

After helping to clean up the Cabin on Sunday and removing my baggage, I parked at Laggan Dam. From there I walked up Beinn Teallach, then Beinn a' Chaorainn, which has large cliffs that went as close to as I dared - i.e. made sure I wasn't standing on a ledge of snow.