CUHWC 2008 - Glen Shiel (and day on Skye)

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29th June 2008 to 5th July 2008

The official unofficial trip went to Glen Shiel this year. On Monday, I walked over the 5 Sisters with Ruth, Simon, Katrina and Dan. On Tuesday, it was raining so we went to Eilean Donan followed by a forest walk. On Wednesday, Simon T, Ruth, Dave F, Simon W, David P, Katrina, Dan, Alex P and I scrambled on Forcan Ridge up to The Saddle. DP and I then continued to Sgurr na Sgine, which broke my knee so I had the day off on Thursday! Then on Friday, Ruth, DP, Katrina and Dan and I went to walk near Elgol on Skye, with amazing views of the Cuillin.

Rainbow, seen from the descent from Sgurr na Signe (this photo is out of order!) 800x312 Buy Print	After Glen Coe, we moved up to Shiel Bridge for the official club trip. 800x600 Buy Print	On Monday, Dan, Katrina, Ruth, Simon and I walked from the bottom of Glen Shiel up to Bealach an Lapain, then over the 5 sisters 800x600 Buy Print	Sgurr na Sgine and The Saddle 800x600 Buy Print
Dan 800x600 Buy Print	Simon and Katrina 800x1067 Buy Print	Ruth and Katrina. It wasn't long before people started getting fed up with my new small camera (which meant I could take photos at every opportunity :) ) 800x600 Buy Print	Mushroom 800x600 Buy Print
Ruth 800x600 Buy Print	Simon, always happy to pose for the camera... 800x600 Buy Print	Limpet writing on Skye! 800x600 Buy Print	Can you guess what we were trying (and failing) to write?! 800x600 Buy Print
Katrina's midge bite 800x600 Buy Print	Heelan coo 800x600 Buy Print	Escaping from the midges in DP's car! 800x600 Buy Print	Sunset over Loch Duich 800x600 Buy Print
Sunset over Loch Duich 800x600 Buy Print	Sunset over Loch Duich 800x600 Buy Print	Sunset over Loch Duich 800x600 Buy Print	2000x308 Buy Print
Dan 800x600 Buy Print	Ruth and Simon 800x1067 Buy Print	Thanks Katrina :) 800x600 Buy Print	Me first! 800x600 Buy Print
Simon 800x600 Buy Print	Yes - another photo! 800x600 Buy Print	Katrina and Simon 800x600 Buy Print	Ruth 800x600 Buy Print
Katrina disapproving of Simon and my competition to take the best photograph of her! 800x1067 Buy Print	Deer... no, Simon 800x600 Buy Print	Dan, Katrina, Ruth and Simon on the ascent of Sgurr na Ciste Duibh 800x600 Buy Print	Descent on the way up to Sgurr na Ciste Duibh 800x1067 Buy Print
Ruth enjoying the scrambling :) 800x1067 Buy Print	Katrina concentrating 800x1067 Buy Print	Come on Simon! 800x1067 Buy Print	Scrambling on Sgurr na Ciste Duibh 800x600 Buy Print
Katrina, Dan and Ruth 800x600 Buy Print	Simon 800x600 Buy Print	I took an alternative route down a nice grassy slope (unfortunately followed by some not-so-nice, slippery scree!) 800x600 Buy Print	Oliver, standing as near to the drop as he dared! 800x1067 Buy Print
Oliver, Dan, Katrina, Ruth, Dave and Simon - we recovered Oliver after he'd been broken by David P's group 800x600 Buy Print	Ruth 800x600 Buy Print	Dave on the descent from the 5 sisters 800x1067 Buy Print	Orchid 800x1067 Buy Print
Dave F 800x600 Buy Print	In the pub on Monday evening 800x600 Buy Print	Katrina fulfilling her role as social secretary, even while I was trying to take a picture :) 800x600 Buy Print	Then Dan takes a swig of... tea... 800x600 Buy Print
Simon in high spirits after watching the tennis, befriending the pub dog (what was he called, Simon?) 800x600 Buy Print	We soon discovered that while "Sit!", "Stay!" etc were quite safe, "Up!" was NOT a good command!! 800x600 Buy Print	The poor dog just couldn't get away 800x600 Buy Print	The next morning, it was raining. So we headed to the "scullery" (actually a laundry) to play cards 800x600 Buy Print
It was clear who had the better hand! 800x1067 Buy Print	Oliver practising his Poker face (though we weren't playing poker) 800x1067 Buy Print	The club's resident card sharks 800x600 Buy Print	Eilean Donan - when we eventually left the comfort of the scullery 800x600 Buy Print
At first Ruth posed cheerily on the gun... 800x600 Buy Print	...but soon after I wasn't sure if this was a safe place to be standing 800x1067 Buy Print	Simon still being friendly with animals 800x600 Buy Print	The two big birds 800x1067 Buy Print