Meet Report
13th to 15th September 2003 - Arran
It's a while since the club went to Arran, Glen Rosa being a campsite best
enjoyed by those who are hard of hearing and tolerant of fun behaviour like
having a motor cycle driven round your tent in the middle of the night -
makes Kenmore seem
positively boring. Having now
discovered Shore Lodge as an alternative hopefully we will be back to Arran
a bit sooner. As we lounged in the expansive sofas beside the log burning
stove, it was agreed that the problem with Shore Lodge was that there were
too many bathrooms, not enough hooks and "no little shelf in the bathroom
to put my glasses on (Bill B). Yes you can begin to see why the Meet
Secretary has quite a tough job!
Unforunately the walking was not up to the comforts of Shore Lodge, mist,
wind and rain being the order of the day. Those who went for the low
level options on Saturday at least had some sunshine. Sunday was similar
but with more rain and less wind. Bill B, son Christopher, Cathy and
Gillian returned wtih wired expressions having had an exciting ascent of
the Caisteal Abhail some tricky scrambling on greasy rock had them adopting
a variety of unorthodox climbing techniques. Actually Gillian returned
quite a bit later after extending the walk to Cir Mhor and coming back in
the dark (so whats new) after getting a lift back along the road in a taxi
full of revellers heading to Brodick. Eileen and Bill got within a stone's
throw of the summit of Beinn Tarsuinn but in the thick mist failed to find
the actual summit. Clare and Kenny did Goat Fell by different routes,
Clare's route involving as little time as possible on the mountain. My
walk along the road from Sannox to Brodick enabled me to watch the basking
seals and return with a large bag of brambles.
Monday was yes more of the same so we all headed off for the mid morning
ferry. At least it gave Bill B a chance to have a full scale rant about
the inability of west coast restaurants to make a decent cup of coffee.
Alison