Ardbrecknish House
Loch
Awe
10-12 March 2000
Present: Peter F, Jo L, Josie C, Tony K, James R, Tony B, Steve R, Debbie K, Cormac R, Andy R, Verity C, Fiona & Calum M, Pete & Helen I
The weather over the whole weekend was pretty wet and windy so this place was a lucky find on the accommodation front. Slightly more expensive than the club is used to, but the club had its own apartment with 5 bedrooms, lounge, kitchen and two bathrooms, with a bar downstairs equipped with snooker table and other large pub games.
Saturday
Andy, Verity, Steve and James lopped up 'some hill above the hydro project' - Ben Cruachan. James and Steve had the energy to summit both hills whilst V1 and Andy just loafed around after just one. However, this latter pair had assumed that James and Steve would be behind them as they'd only done half the walk, so they stopped and waited for them for AGES on the way down the hill watching the two orange blobs (James and Steve) descending higher up. Eventually they got bored of waiting and tootled down to the car, only to find James and Steve bored of waiting for us! Opps! Calum, Fiona, the two Tony's, Peter F, Jo and Josie went up Beinn a'Chochuill and Beinn Eunaich - and used the compass to try and determine the degree of the steepness of the slope (c.45o!?!). Pete and Helen both went up Ben Ime and Ben Narnian as Helen was in bagging mode again! It being such a wet day, there resulted fierce competition for the bathrooms on everyone's return. Mr B promptly thwarted Helen's sense of community to conserve hot water (by bathing in an inch of water) by using all the hot water in his 'pool'. Josie and Jo escaped downstairs to Steve and Debbie's apartment to freshen up! Andy and James made good use of the bar facilities both alcoholic and 'sporting' until 2am!
Sunday
Another very wet day which quelled much enthusiasm to do much! On the map Steve, Debbie, Jo and Josie sourced what should have been a nice pleasant forest walk taking us to a viewpoint with a monument. In reality the path on the map was now a road so they ended up parking the car within sight of the viewpoint, and had a 3-minute stroll to the 'summit' (leaving a peacefully sleeping Cormac in the car!). Tony and James, planning on investigating a bit more of the south side of Loch Awe inadvertently drove all the way around it! Edinburgh was returned to by early afternoon.
JL