a bimble on beinn loinne

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

After my elemental outing on Blaven on Saturday, I was looking forward to some sunshine on the Sunday, as predicted by the forecast. As I blethered with Alex the neeb in the morning I mentioned it was going to be a spot of thunder, some showers then clearing up. We had a good old chinwag about the weather as her hubby John had had to move the boat round to the old harbour at Broadford due to the gales that gave me such pleasure on the hill the day before. It’s a different world if you’re a fisherman. We often see John heading out of the village in the evening after the forecast and casting knowing glances at each other. Gales from the south. So freshly wind groomed I drove over to Cluanie and plodded up the old Road to the Isles towards Beinn Loinne.

above the clouds on the lundie horseshoe

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The forecast was for low cloud and clag on the west coast, with increasingly better weather forecast the further east you travelled. So I packed the ‘sac and headed for Cluanie, listening to the radio on the way with Lord Cameron of Neish giving the advice to head east to avoid the weather and good advice it was too as the base rose higher and higher the nearer I drew to Cluanie. I parked at Lundie and headed up the old military road past the mast and on up the frozen hillside, heading for Carn Ghluasaid.

Cluanie on eBothy Blog

a bimble on beinn loinne

above the clouds on the lundie horseshoe