Nanuls wrote:Boydie wrote:Hey all,
So, back from Torridon and it was a partial washout. Friday was filled with heavy rain and sickness for one of my mates, so we just ventured round to Applecross for a bit in the late afternoon. Saturday we took advantage of a window of good weather to do Beinn Alligin (5 minutes of horizontal hailstones though..?). Unfortunately the rain started hammering down again five minutes from the car and continued for the rest of the evening. Sunday was heavy rain again, with the forecast snow above 800m being surprisingly accurate, so decided to head down the road early. Ach well, still well worth it and had a great time in a really beautiful part of the country.
Eric, will also have a look through your page when I get a chance to do so properly. Seems it's been drawing a lot of attention in the comments field recently.
Dan, I take it you have read the comments left by Dan Bailey on the Grampians page. I understand what he is saying about the naming as I stated in my initial reply. What's your thoughts about it?
Shame to hear about your trip to Torridon; still the Highlands wouldn’t be the Highlands without the odd deluge. Did you manage to summit Beinn Alligin?
The weather wasn’t too bad down here, although on Monday I was forced to climb in my waterproofs for the first time this year. All in all though, it was a pretty good bank holiday.
I had a read through Dan’s stuff, and what he says is quite correct, but then again, so are we. It’s just a different way of doing it. I think it would to much work to change the structure of the thing now. By the by, to a certain extent we already have a similar structure to the one he suggests; as a general page we now have Eric’s Scotland A&R, which more or less functions as an umbrella page.
I think what we need now is a page for either the North West Highlands, Southern Uplands, or the Western Isles, which would help clarify the structure set out for Scotland. Same structure as the GM page, although I imagine they would be smaller. Might wait a bit before starting a new project like that though…
Sorry Dan, hadn't noticed your reply.
Changing the name of the Grampians page would be a bit of an undertaking and as you say probably not worth it. I understand the points Dan is making, but if it had been an issue, one of us would have brought it up earlier.
I did summit Beinn Alligin
. We done a traverse from the horns and right round. The wind was gusting about 70mph and knocking us off our feet so we only done the first horn, then skirted along the path underneath the other two as it was getting a bit dodgy. The wind was a bit odd, as there was no sort of warning prior to each gust. You know that whistling noise you usually hear before it hits you, well it was lacking. Must have been cause we were so close to the Atlantic. All in all though, I have to say that it is an absolutely smashing peak.
The other peaks there look really good to, although Liathach is one big scary looking fucker.
I've done an album with some pics of Torridon and Applecross
http://www.summitpost.org/album/512455/Torridon-May-09.html and have just finished a mountain page for Beinn Alligin
http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/512937/Beinn-Alligin.html, so that should hopefully increase the exposure of the NW Highlands a wee bit.
Stephen