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Snow on way up onto Rannoch mor

Looking down over towards Fort William From The Goose

Lucy Munching - Action shot!

A load of asian kids trying to ski for the first time on the beginners slope

Get that weight foward!

Looking down from top of cable car

View by the roadside

Over towards ben Lawyers

Scott and Holly

Scott at Summit

Scott and Holly On Tarmichan Ridge

Nigel and Holly

Scott and Holly on ridge

Nigel and unknown irish bloke on interesting scramble [Scott]

Way back to the car [Scott]

Nice pint by the fire

Finn the dog enjoying the snow!

View up the river

Snowy road up to the base of the hill

Lucy, Trish and Anne

Lucy and Anne bringing up the rear

Annem Nigel, Liz and Trish

Gang shot at the summit

Tower Ridge Climb - Walk in up the CIC path

Its grim up north!

CIC in the murk!

Starting the climb, Adrian in the distance

Adrian on the tricky section - Dry Tooling!

Half-way lochan on the way down

Half Way Lochan

Colourful Forests

Day 1 (Vallandry) Lucy on the nursury slope

Day 2 (Vallandry) Harvey

Last run of the day

Day 3 Arc1600 - Started from Bourg, and traversed back to Vallandry for lunchtime ski lesson

Inversion over valley (Landry is under the clouds)

Over the back of the mountains

Food in resturant at Arc1600 at end of day

Day 4 (Vallandry) Lucy on the big slope 'Football Pitch'

Lucy - Resturant at top of transarc (2600M)

Ludy, Nigel & Drummond

View back towards Arc1600

Drummond, Lucy and Nigel on Aiguille Rouge (3226M)

Views from the top

Auguille Rouge top station

Day 5 (La Plagne) Harvey

Views from just Below Bellecote at about 3300M

That moggled piste is actually a blue!!

Me at Bellecote

La Plagne Centre

Looking back across to Vallandry from La Plagne

Vallandry centre having food (notice the lack of snow!!)

Church In Bourg

Day 6 - Hired a board for the day (Vallandry)

Loopy and Nigel

Looking a touch more confident

View up the slope that became known as the 'football pitch'

Gang shot on the lift in Vallandry (Ausie bloke on the end called Andrew from the hostel)

View up the football pitch

Drummond in action

Interesting looking rocks

Notice the arch

Different angle

Big cable car that went from 3100 to 3450M

Views from 3450M

View down the glacier

Nigel and Harvey

Saturday: Carn Liath, Stob Poite Corie Ardair & Creag Meagaidh. Lucy just after we left the cars

Lucy Climbing up to Carn Liath

Drummond and Mandy on climb

Lucy and Gordon

Foggy higher up

Large cornice on top of Coire Ardair near Stob Poite Corie Ardair summit

Avalanche debis in the gullies, and not alot of snow about!

Lochan a' Choire

Group Shot at summit of Creag Meagaidh (Nigel, Drummond, Mandy, Jim, Lucy & Gordon)

Skies clear on the way down

View up Loch Laggan

Sunday: Lucy, Nigel, Jenny & Iain at the summit of Geal Charn

Iain and Jen on way off

Lucy stumbling down into An Dirc Mhor (feature on hillside)

The Buachaille From The A82

Lucy on clim up to Stob an Fhuarain

View accross towards the Ballachulish Horseshoe

Sgor na h-Ulaidh (we were gonna head up here after Fhuarain, but we ran out of time - late starters!!)

Lucy throwing snowballs at me!

View out west towards the islands

Lucy with Sgor na h-Ulaidh in the background

View out towards the Mammores

Pics from the summit

Loch Linnhe / Loch Leven

Sgor na h-Ulaidh Bealach

Lucy heading down

Sgor na h-Ulaidh

Lucy extracting herself from a bog!

Lucy on the plateau

Prepairing at the top

I can see you (Rich at bottom of Easy Gully)

Lucy at start of 1st pitch

Right Twin (Aonach Mor)

Top of 1st Pitch

Nigel topping out!!!

Ditto. Took us a while to top out due to nasty mushy snow below cornice!

Stu at top of Pine Wall Crag

Lucy at top of 1st pitch on 'The Gutter' Pinewall Crag

Top of second pitch

Top of third pitch

Pol Dubh from road

View across Glencoe on way to Clacaig for tea

Lucy prepairing herself!

Jen on Doomsday (Styx Buttress)

Lucy leading 'The Gutter' on Pinewall Crag

Robin on Doomsday (Styx Buttress)

Nigel at top of 'Pine Wall' (Pine Wall Crag)

Lucy topping out

Top of Spike Wall

Bruise obtained after falling off 'Tear' SouthWest Buttress

Stu at the top of ...

Lucy preparing for the off

Lucy heading back down (testing that prussik!)

Wonderfull weather greeted us at the top!

Man of the moment

Loopy Lucy with that ever-present cheesy grin!!!

'I need by bed!'

Ian singing (nope, he was not sat on the toilet!)

Looking back to InverCroft

Lucys obviously pleased about having arrived!

View up to the village

The islands old lighthouse (now non operational)

Some interesting rock formations on the cliff tops

Mini sea stack in the distance

Looking across to the early birds who were at the top of the access scramble down to the devils slide

Abseiling down the 1st pitch of the slide so that we could climb back up again!

Loopy on her way down

Rachel on her way up!

Looking up the climb from below at those who were already climbing

Adrian headed down

Crowd on the rock at the start

View at the bottem

Rachel on the second pitch

Stu on the second pitch

Lucy climbing the second pitch.

Liz on the second pitch. Note the onlookers (Iain/Jen) at the top!

Adrian leading the second pitch

Iain and Jen peering over the edge of the last pitch (3) having topped out.

Looking down from top of pitch 2. Adrian belaying with Dave M climbing

Dave M on pitch 2

Looks like somet out of Jurassic Park!

Stu and Lucy peering over the top

Me and Loopy Loopster

Adrian on the 'Dainty Traverse' at the top of pitch 3.

Jesus, what a face!

Oldenburg sailing around Lundy on the Sunday

Old fog warning battery, using canons to warn ships of dangerious rocks around Lundy

After a mod downclimb, we got to the base to see what it was that we had downclimbed over!

Davey and Nigel

Davey Leading pitch 1 of the Horsemans route (HS)

Ditto, zoomed out

Lucy Leading pitch 1 of Allouette

Iain leadng pitch 2 of the Horsemans Route

Nigel belaying Lucy (we did Allouette, S), Lucy leading the 1st pitch and me the second.

Looking down at Adrian on the 1st pitch of the horsemans route.

Adrian starting out on the second pitch

Looking up the lighthouse stairs

Lucy in lighthouse

Lucy well oiled in the bogs after we left the pub with a mug of wine!! She proceeded to try and enter the tent soaking wet with

Guess Adrian will be requiring a new tent then. The wind/rain got up on the Sunday eve.

A wander around the Island Monday morning before we got helicoptered off the island!! It had been too rough for the boat to sail

Lucy in front of castle Ruins

Nighthouse in the distance

The devils Cauldrun (dirty great hole in the ground)

The island from the Helicopter

Helicopter heading back for more passengers

Lundy from Hartland Point

Scott on way up Glen Rosa

Ditto, Up Close

Scott, just before the snow started!

After this point we managed to go horribly wrong on the route finding front!!

Evening view down Glen Rosa

View over the water across the Mull to the paps of Jura

Particularly fine bit of bread, that!

View over the water across the Mull to the paps of Jura

West coast of Scotland near Reiff

Lucy Climbing Midreiff

Jim on Midreiff

Adrian on Midreiff

St Ninnians Isle, joined to 'mainland' by sand spit

Wee beach at Levenwick Ness

Traffic control lights on the runway at Sumburgh Airport

Stopped on the runway for a quick photie

BA flight taking off

Sumburgh Head lighthouse

Guillemots eating and shitting all over the palce

Mr puffin who was very happy to pose for us!

Closeup of lighthouse

Oil workers heading out to the rigs

Oil workers headed home!

Cycling around the back of the Loch of Spiggie

Looking out west

Colsay Island to the right

Very straight road!

Bigton in the distance

Broch in middle of Lerwick

Views across the town from the hill at the back of the campsite

Back on the bikes and heading north

Splendid wee spot we found on South Yell at Burravoe Pier. Wild camping, but with access to a tap.

Headed across Yell via Mid Yell

View down towards Mid Yell

Beach at Mid Yell

Me And Loops On Pier

Knackered Loopster

North Yell. We took the wee road North from the ferry in search of a beach for lunch

Away from it all houses on the way to the beach

Fantastic beach (better than those I sampled on Harris/North Uist in fact!)

Me and Loops with the beach to ourselves

Sign at ferry on getting onto Unst (UK's most northerly isle - providing we are not counting 10 metre long lumps of rock!)

Baltasound - where someone was getting married (woman in post office was shutting up shop to attend!)

The infamous Unst bus shelter

I cycled up to the top of the Sava Vord radar station (now closed) for a butchers. Lucy admired the birds!

Shetland ponies on the road when we were heading back to the Ferry on Unst

The extremely cheap inter-island ferry service. Person+Bike: Â£3.20 for Mainland-Yell-Unst (ret).

Headed out to Northland

Rock with arch at Esha Ness

Esha Ness lighthouse

Esha Ness Cliffs

Must be some routes on these?!

Mini viking boat at Lerwick

Ditto - with the clouds putting on a show!

Lerwick Harbour

Views of Lerwick from the boat as we headed back towards Orkney

Sumburgh Head lighthouse

Masts and hulls from long sunken ships on Orkney

Lighthouse at Dunnet Head

Scott leading ???

Scott Leading ???

Scott leading 'Grovel Groove' (MS)

What a stance!!

Bruce on Grovel Groove

Me seconding Black and Tan

And falling off due to having farted loudly!

Me leading 'Grovel Groove' (MS)

Sunset and interesting cloud in camp site

Scott (right) on 'Littony' S, 4b but more like VS due to overhang at top.

Looking up at Jean and Jim

Scott resting on Littony just under the overhanging crux

View west from the track up to Carn Liath (was not raining - yet!)

Bridge on way down. We decided not to cross!! The weather turned on us while in my bivvy shelter on Braigh Corie Chruinn-Bhalgai

Another less than servicable bridge...

...Which would just about support a fat bloke!

Lake Of Mentieth

View over towards Callender

Threatening weather

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