AM BINNEIN (1560')

Friday 30th December        Am Binnein (1560')

Leaders Glip and Tommy Boag

PLs Colin Speirs, Roderick McCrorie, Callum Gillespie, Alan Fletcher

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APLs Derek Speirs, Ross Gillespie, Stuart Dalrymple

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Scouts Mark Sinclair, Kris Timmons, James Gatherer

Report

The climb was part of the Ardentinny winter camp described elsewhere

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Since the weather was clearer, we decided to go up Creachan Mor looking for snow. Laden with sledges, we must have looked rather funny to the couple of females who watched us set off. Before trying our sledging, Tommy led us up the Smugglers Path and then to the Shieling, which was a pile of stones and produced a common cry of “Is that it?”, heavily flavoured with disgust.

From here, we traversed up and along the slope to Am Binnein, fighting to keep our sledges under control as a very strong, cold wind tried to haul them out of our grasps.  I was quite impressed, in fact, that everybody got to Am Binnein, so I immediately awarded it as an Everest height. There was no snow, but it was quite sheltered on the south slope, so we grass sledged here with success. Roderick flew on occasions which is quite something to behold.

Peasant, Rosco and Merry tried their luck further down the hill. We fooled around here for a while. Tommy and I satisfied ourselves watching the others and admiring the snow-topped Arrochar mountains. Eventually, a snowstorm drove us down into the forest on the South East slope of the shoulder. Here, we had lunch, then dropped down to the track...... The party split here. Some, including Roderick and Derek, followed the track back to the hut, while the rest of us, including Tommy, Glip, Ross, Mark, Kris, Merry, and Peasant, headed through the forest to the shoreline and followed the shoreline back to the hut.

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