Day Meet
Saturday 18 November 2000

The plan for this week-end was the Lake District, but the less than enthusiastic response from the club led to the meet being cancelled. As a consolation prize, a day meet was organised and imagine the meet sec’s joy on receiving no less than ten immediate e-mail responses! However closer examination revealed a catalogue of lame excuses - away to England for the week-end, attending a horticultural society AGM, being too tired after a holiday in Brazil, being away in Antarctica, going Christmas shopping..... I ask you, what sort of club is this????

Anyway, a hardy (!) trio, the meet sec, Tony B and Peter F decided to enjoy the splendour of Scotland’s icy mountains and duly sallied forth into a grey dawn. In fact, it was so grey that the junction on the motorway was missed and a scenic detour via Glasgow was used to reach Crianlarich. The objective for the day was Beinn Dubhchraig, chosen by Tony B as it was, in his words, "the wettest Munro he’d ever climbed, and he wanted to see the view". Radio Scotland predicted a cloudbase of 300ft, a summit temperature of -2⁰C and a wind of 40mph, gusting 70mph - just as well nobody believes these things!

It was not entirely wet. No, some of the time it snowed. In fact, it wasn’t that bad, and Tony got his view - see the picture below! In classic FMC style, the descent lasted until well after sunset, providing another stunning view.

Anyway, we enjoyed it. The good news was that the weather in the Lakes was really bad!

Tony K