Tuesday, March 27, 2012




The AMC held its annual dinner meet at the Port a’ Bhaige campsite and An Fuaran bar in Achiltibuie last weekend. The forecast of glorious spring sun, little wind and it still being a little early for the Midgies seemed popular with a good turnout of 17.

Saturday was a little overcast to start, and extended campsite loitering waiting for the promised burn off didn’t achieve much, so the group split into 3 with the bulk heading up Ben Mor Coigach, 6 of us heading north to the Reiff seacliffs and an advance party of 1 heading to Stac Pollaidh to scout it out for the rest of us the following day.

The Ben Mor Coigach party reported a glorious day on the tops – warm sun, no wind, great (if a little hazy views) and a find day was had by all. I'm sure a posting or two from the party will appear soon with details of their day!

At Reiff the party split into two threes (the logical division for 6 climbers......) with one lot heading to the short but sunny routes at the Pinnacle Area, and the second lot opting for the longer but north facing routes of the Black Cliff.


A relaxed morning of cragging in the sun lead to a lazy lunch when we met up again over at the black cliff. The Pinnacle lot headed further north to the pooh cliffs in the afternoon shamelessly chasing the sunshine, while the Black cliff party headed over to the pinnacle area to finish off their day.

The parties met back up at the Pinnacle area just in time for us to all pull out cameras for the last couple of folk to finish climbing – nothing like an audience to put you at ease afterall!


Julie at Pinnacle Area Evan at Pinnacle Area


The meal in An Fuaran was good, and the staff friendly – the wine and ale and craic flowing freely through the night.


Sunday was the sunnier day, though we were caught out by the clocks sneaking forward in the night! This lead to a bit of a panic as we realised 0830 was actually 0930 and we should be on the hill or at least finished breakfast!


The meet broke up as per cars with two parties heading for Cul Beag, one walking party on Stac Pollaidh and a second climbing party there also.


Views From Stac Pollaidh


Another lot headed to the western Fannichs while their kindly taxi driver spend the day cragging near Gairloch before picking them up for the long trip back to Aberdeen.


A successful start to the spring / summer meets – fingers crossed we get a few more like it!

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