http://www.carndearg.org 1949 - 2010 61 years on the Scottish mountains Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:35:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en June Weekend Meet Badralloch Little Loch Broom Saturday dawned with beautiful blue skies…..and no wind. Those of us camping didn’t hang about long outside! The midges even made it into the toilets which at least kept the queue short! Sevenof us (Neil, Sandra, Colin, Chris, John, Catriona & Paul) headed ... http://www.carndearg.org/?p=498 There's been quite a few reports recently of theft from cars parked overnight at Linn of Dee car park even when no valuables were visible. http://www.carndearg.org/?p=496 Plans have been announced to repair the wire bridge over the Water of Nevis at Steall, Glen Nevis. The bridge has been closed since one its cables snapped on Wednesday 26 May. The bridge links the Glen Nevis property,owned by the John Muir Trust, with land owned by Alcan. http://www.carndearg.org/?p=494 Eight of the group left on the Friday lunchtime ferry in lovely weather with great views, and happily this lasted the whole weekend. We were so lucky. On the way over amongst other sea birds we saw puffins and a minkie whale. That afternoon some of us did a tour ... http://www.carndearg.org/?p=487 Tiso Dundee Spring club discount night is being held on Tuesday 2nd March 2010 6.30pm - 8.30pm. Up to 20% off! http://www.carndearg.org/?p=480 Following the postponement of the club's AGM earlier this month the meeting has now been re-scheduled and will take place on Wednesday 3rd February 2010 in the Lesser Hall, Albert Halls, Albert Place, Stirling FK8 2QL. The hall will be available from 7pm with the meeting starting promptly at 7:30pm. The committee appreciate that having ... http://www.carndearg.org/?p=477 Due to the current weather conditions we are expecting attendance at the AGM to be very low and have therefore taken the decision to postpone it. The weekend meet to Glen Clova may still go ahead but a final call will be made by the Meet Secretary tomorrow evening. I ... http://www.carndearg.org/?p=473 The current snow situation is that you can get a car up to Glen Doll but both the club hut car park and the main car park are more or less inaccessible and it is a case of shoving the car anywhere. Walking conditions are described as snow wading and ... http://www.carndearg.org/?p=469 No, not the top of Cairngorm, this photo was taken whilst ski touring above Linlithgow in West Lothian. [simage=275,160,y,none] A cool -16 in Glenmore on 28 December 2009 [simage=270,160,y,none] Top of Meall a' Buachaille above Glenmore [simage=273,160,y,none] [simage=274,160,y,none] http://www.carndearg.org/?p=465 Finding the venue for this year’s Christmas meet presented some problems since Chris’s beautifully clear directions seemed to lead to a small mansion with no sign of a climbing hut amongst its outbuildings. By a process of elimination it worked out that the mansion must be the venue, and what ... http://www.carndearg.org/?p=463